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. 2020 Nov 28;28(2):1324–1330. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.11.056

Table 3.

Growth performance and morphological indices of Lates calcarifer at different feeding rates for 68 day trial.

S.No.	Biotechnical parameters	Feeding rate groups (% BW d-1)
S.No.	Biotechnical parameters	T1, 3%	T2, 4%	T3, 6%	T4, 9%
1	IBW (g)	5.20 ± 0.022	5.10 ± 0.04	5.10 ± 0.01	5.40 ± 0.02
2	FBW (g)	68.11 ± 0.42^b	79.86 ± 2.11^b	84.78 ± 1.66^a	81.88 ± 1.80^b
3	IBL (Li,cm)	5.20 ± 0.88^b	5.11 ± 0.44^b	6.21 ± 0.99 ^a	5.4 ± 0.82^b
4	FBL (Lf, cm)	16.85 ± 0.98^c	17.88 ± 0.39^b	18.86 ± 1.98 ^a	18.25 ± 1.85^a
5	LG (cm)	11.65 ± 0.10^b	11.77 ± 0.11^a	13.11 ± 0.01^a	12.49 ± 0.47^a
6	WG (g)	62.91 ± 0.20^b	74.76 ± 2.07^a	79.68 ± 1.65^a	76.48 ± 1.78^a
7	SGR (%/day)	3.78 ± 0.1^b	4.04 ± 0.2^b	4.13 ± 0.3^a	3.99 ± 0.1^a
8	ADWG (g/day)	0.92 ± 0.04^c	1.09 ± 0.02^b	1.17 ± 0.06^a	1.12 ± 0.07^b
9	FCR (g)	2.04 ± 0.6^a	1.23 ± 0.4^b	0.96 ± 0.02^c	1.36 ± 0.8^b
10	PER	1.36 ± 0.2^c	1.62 ± 0.3^b	1.70 ± 0.3^a	1.66 ± 0.1^b
11	CF	1.52 ± 0.2^b	1.53 ± 0.1^b	1.56 ± 0.1^b	2.95 ± 0.2^a
12	HSI	1.4 ± 0.1^b	1.5 ± 0.2^a	1.5 ± 0.2^a	1.5 ± 0.1^a
13	VSI	4.11 ± 0.36^c	4.30 ± 0.41^c	4.98 ± 0.52^b	5.20 ± 46^a
14	Cannibalism (%)	5.72 ± 0.00^b	0 ± 0.00^a	0 ± 0.00^a	0 ± 0.00^a
15	SR (%)	94.28 ± 0.00^c	100 ± 0.00^a	100 ± 0.00^a	97.14 ± 0.00^b

The mean ± SD of treatments (n = 35) in the same row with a number of different super-scripts differs significantly between them (P > 0.05).