TABLE 3.

Effects of high starch diet on the survival and growth of largemouth bass.

		Z group	G group
SR (%)		100	100
IBW (g)		7.12 ± 1.61	7.35 ± 1.11
IBL (cm)		9.34 ± 0.51	9.31 ± 0.45
FBW (g)	15 d	11.06 ± 1.52a	12.91 ± 2.62a,**
	30 d	17.99 ± 3.95b	19.89 ± 2.70b
	45 d	27.20 ± 4.93c	28.19 ± 5.56c
FBL (cm)	15 d	9.93 ± 0.39a	10.16 ± 0.53a
	30 d	11.30 ± 0.56b	11.48 ± 0.46b
	45 d	13.02 ± 0.71c	13.02 ± 0.66c
WGR (%)	15 d	0.63 ± 0.30a	0.86 ± 0.54a
	30 d	1.80 ± 1.07b	1.95 ± 0.66b
	45 d	2.95 ± 1.10c	3.01 ± 0.96c
SGR (%/d)	15 d	0.094 ± 0.123b	0.116 ± 0.201b
	30 d	0.081 ± 0.115a,b	0.087 ± 0.002a
	45 d	0.066 ± 0.004a	0.068 ± 0.004a
LW (g)	15 d	0.20 ± 0.24	0.39 ± 0.13a,**
	30 d	0.14 ± 0.41	0.43 ± 0.16a,b,***
	45 d	0.24 ± 0.06	0.65 ± 0.19b,**
HIS (%)	15 d	1.79 ± 1.76b	3.10 ± 1.07b,**
	30 d	0.79 ± 0.15a	2.17 ± 0.89a,***
	45 d	0.88 ± 0.07a	2.31 ± 0.50a,***

SR (survival rate, %) = 100 × final fish number/initial fish number; WGR (weight gain rate, %) = 100 × (FBW−IBW)/IBW, where FBW and IBM are the final and the initial body weight of fish; Specific growth rate (SGR, %) = [ln (mean final weight)−ln (mean initial weight)/45 days] ×100; HIS (%) = LW/IBM, where LW is the liver weight of fish; IBL and FBL: the initial and final body length; **p < 0.01 or ***p < 0.001 represents highly significant differences between fed Z and G diets at the same time. Lowercase letters represent differences between different times fed the same diet.

The “a, b, c” represents differences between different times fed the same diet.