Table 4.
A proximate composition of final carcass composition (% wet weight) of experimental sea bass (Lates calcarifer) at different feeding levels for 68 day trial.
| Ingredients (%) |
Feeding groups (% BW d-1) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1, (3%) | T2, (4%) | T3, (6%) | T4, (9%) | ||
| Moisture | 70.4 ± 0.08 | 69.7 ± 2.1 | 70.3 ± 0.31 | 69.9 ± 0.03 | |
| Protein | 18.01 ± 0.12 | 18.02 ± 1.12 | 18.18 ± 1.20 | 18.04 ± 1.4 | |
| Lipid | 9.30 ± 1.6c | 9.32 ± 1.60c | 9.88 ± 1.8b | 12.9 ± 1.77a | |
| Ash | 5.58 ± 0.01b | 5.12 ± 0.8a | 5.10 ± 0.6a | 5.13 ± 0.8a | |
Values (mean ± SD, n = 3 and each tank consists of 35 fish per group in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different (P > 0.05).