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. 2013 Apr 22;8(4):e61357. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061357

Table 3. Results of the growth experiment.

Treatment Temperature [O2] Weight Day 1 Weight Day 13 Weight Day 26 TFI SGR FCR Survival
(°C) (°C) (mg/L) (g) (g) (g) (g/fish) (%BW/d) (%)
19 18.6 (0.5)a 7.2 (0.0)a 33.9 (0.27) 42.3 (0.27) 49.3 (1.28) 47.1 (6.1)ac 2.29 (0.15)a 6.7 (0.1)ac 100 (0)
22 21.9 (0.2)b 6.8 (0.1)b 33.0 (3.84) 43.0 (3.83) 56.3 (4.38) 66.7 (5.7)b 3.17 (0.09)b 5.0 (0.2)b 93 (9)
25 24.8 (0.3)c 6.2 (0.3)c 33.3 (0.82) 41.9 (1.41) 52.0 (1.07) 58.1 (6.3)ab 2.76 (0.10)c 5.8 (0.4)ab 97 (4)
28 27.8 (0.4)d 6.3 (0.1)c 32.8 (2.86) 39.8 (4.02) 44.6 (4.52) 34.4 (6.7)c 1.96 (0.00)d 7.2 (0.7)c 94 (0)
p-value <0.0001 <0.0001 0.97 0.73 0.09 0.02 0.001 0.02 0.59
LSD1) 0.21 0.17 - - - 17.3 0.28 1.14 -

Mean (SD) values for water temperature (n = 26), dissolved oxygen concentration ( [O2], n = 26 ), individual weights at days 1, 14 and 26 (n = 2), total feed intake (TFI, n = 2), specific growth rate (SGR, n = 2) and feed conversion ratio (FCR, n = 2).

1)

LSD = least significant difference.

Mean values with different superscripts are significantly different (ANOVA, p<0.05).