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Table 4.

Growth response and morphological indices of Asian seabass at different feeding frequencies for a 70-day trial.

Biotechnical parameters	Feeding frequency
Biotechnical parameters	T1 (FF1)	T2 (FF2)	T3 (FF3)	T4 (FF4)
Initial body weight (g)	0.2 ± 0.11^a	0.2 ± 0.01^a	0.2 ± 0.12^a	0.2 ± 0.11^a
Final body weight (g)	52.2 ± 0.2^c	56.3 ± 0.21^b	58.3 ± 0.31^a	57.2 ± 0.22^b
Initial body length (cm) (Li,cm)	2.1 ± 0.10^a	2.2 ± 0.12^a	2.2 ± 0.15^a	2.4 ± 0.22^a
Final body length (Lf, cm)	16.0 ± 0.1^a	16.5 ± 0.2^a	17.0 ± 0.1^a	16.8 ± 0.1^a
Weight gain (g)	52.0 ± 0.9^b	56.10 ± 0.20^b	58.10 ± 21^a	57.0 ± 0.11^b
Length gain (LG,cm)	13.9 ± 0.9^b	14.3 ± 0.10^a	14.8 ± 0.14^a	14.4 ± 0.21^a
Specific growth rate (%/day)	3.44 ± 0.03^b	3.49 ± 0.01^a	3.51 ± 0.02^a	3.50 ± 0.02^a
Average daily weight gain (g/day)	0.74 ± 0.0^b	0.80 ± 0.0^b	0.83 ± 0.0^a	0.81 ± 0.0^b
Feed conversion ratio (g)	2.60 ± 0.04^a	2.10 ± 0.04^a	1.80 ± 0.02^b	1.95 ± 0.04^a
Hepatosomatic index (%)	1.3 ± 0.14^a	1.2 ± 0.34^a	1.4 ± 0.06^b	1.4 ± 0.01^b
Viscerosomatic index (%)	3.5 ± 0.21^b	4.5 ± 0.11^a	4.8 ± 0.31^a	4.6 ± 0.21^a
Condition factor (k)	1.12 ± 0.02^a	1.05 ± 0.04^a	0.95 ± 0.06^b	0.99 ± 0.04^b
Cannibalism (%)	8.0 ± 0.0^a	0.0 ± 0.0^c	0.0 ± 0.0^c	4.0 ± 0.0^b
Survival (%)	92.0 ± 0.0^b	100 ± 0.0^a	100 ± 0.0^a	96.0 ± 0.0^b

Values are the mean ± SD of triplicate groups in the same row with different superscripts are significantly different (P > 0.05).