Table 7.

Plasma glucose and proximate composition of whole fish and dorsal muscle of largemouth bass fed different experimental diets for 8 weeks (mean ± SEM, n = 6 for glucose content; n = 3 for the proximate composition of whole fish and dorsal muscle parameters).

Item	Diets1					Pr > F2
	C0	C25	C50	C75	C100	ANOVA	Linear trend	Quadratic trend
Plasma
Glucose content, mg/dL	60.21 ± 2.31a	57.97 ± 3.78a	62.70 ± 3.73a	81.24 ± 5.52b	91.14 ± 3.96b	0.000	0.000	0.000
Whole fish, % wet weight
Moisture	71.44 ± 0.65	70.35 ± 0.38	71.00 ± 0.17	71.60 ± 0.14	71.65 ± 0.62	0.311	0.339	0.334
Crude protein	17.04 ± 0.19ab	17.09 ± 0.03b	16.93 ± 0.16ab	16.54 ± 0.22ab	16.50 ± 0.09a	0.024	0.002	0.007
Crude lipid	8.01 ± 0.37	8.91 ± 0.30	8.59 ± 0.17	8.37 ± 0.21	8.40 ± 0.51	0.443	0.821	0.426
Crude ash	3.78 ± 0.11	3.84 ± 0.11	3.93 ± 0.08	3.82 ± 0.06	3.66 ± 0.06	0.329	0.383	0.100
Gross energy3, kJ/g	23.16 ± 0.40	24.44 ± 0.66	23.65 ± 0.12	23.46 ± 0.15	23.74 ± 0.41	0.320	0.895	0.709
Dorsal muscle, % wet weight
Moisture	77.89 ± 0.23	78.17 ± 0.03	78.14 ± 0.08	78.78 ± 0.37	78.75 ± 0.11	0.542	0.503	0.623
Crude protein	19.09 ± 0.13b	19.00 ± 0.07b	19.03 ± 0.08b	18.59 ± 0.19ab	18.33 ± 0.05a	0.000	0.000	0.000
Crude lipid	2.47 ± 0.17	2.49 ± 0.19	2.52 ± 0.14	2.47 ± 0.18	2.51 ± 0.15	0.999	0.896	0.990
Crude ash	1.37 ± 0.02	1.32 ± 0.02	1.39 ± 0.03	1.35 ± 0.02	1.41 ± 0.04	0.238	0.225	0.247
4Gross energy, kJ/g	21.84 ± 0.03	21.85 ± 0.09	21.73 ± 0.09	21.76 ± 0.07	21.72 ± 0.04	0.537	0.114	0.297

¹C0, C25, C50, C75, and C100 represent diets in which Chlorella meal replaced fish meal levels of 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%, respectively. Duncan's multiple range test was used to detect the significance of differences among all groups. Different superscripts on the same row indicate significant differences (P < 0.05).

²Significance probability associated with the F-statistic.

³Gross energy in whole fish (dry matter basis).

⁴Gross energy in dorsal muscle (dry matter basis).