Table 4.

Growth performance of meagre fed experimental diets.

	HBP0	HBP1	HBP2.5	HBP4	p-Values
					RMSE	Linear 1	Quadratic 1	Cubic 1
Initial BW (g)	3.35	3.34	3.34	3.34
Final BW (g)	26.78	23.29	22.69	21.36	0.66	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0659
FCR	0.96	1.04	1.18	1.23	0.06	0.0007	0.0003	0.3186
SGR	2.37	2.21	2.18	2.11	0.08	0.0044	0.0062	0.4158
Intake‰ ABW/d	16.48	17.23	19.08	19.43	0.98	0.0061	0.0025	0.336
WG%	705.3	606.9	579.7	539.7	52.9	0.0050	0.0059	0.5564
PER	1.96	1.80	1.61	1.55	0.10	0.0008	0.0004	0.5619

Abbreviations: Initial BW: initial body weight; Final BW: final body weight; FCR: feed conversion ratio; SGR: specific growth rate; Intake‰ ABW/d: intake per kg adjusted body weight; WG%: weight gain percentage per initial body weight; PER: protein efficiency ratio. ¹ Contrast analysis.