Table 8.

Mineral element profile (mg/kg of wet weight) of the filets of the gilthead sea bream fed with the four exerimental diets.

	GROUP				p -value		SEM1
	HIM0	HIM25%	HIM35%	HIM50%	D2	BW3
Fish	18	18	18	18
Macrominerals
P - Phosphorus	2,356 c	12,016 a	9,459 b	8,880 b	<0.0001	0.575	300.323
Na-Sodium	665	578	520	6340	0.254	0.652	53.05
K-Potassium	3286	3414	3503	3462	0.453	0.493	98.81
Ca-Calcium	943 a	625 ab	590 ab	484 b	0.019	0.484	96.01
Mg-Magnesium	358	344	367	356	0.709	0.526	13.83
Ca/P ratio	0.41 a	0.05 b	0.07 b	0.05 b	<0.0001	0.088	0.03
Microminerals
Zn-Zinc	24.96 a	17.92 b	22.36 a	16.44 b	<0.0001	0.466	2.14
Fe-Iron	5.73 a	4.09 ab	4.47 ab	3.60 b	0.011	0.281	0.41
Mn-Manganese	0.41	0.50	0.49	0.43	0.635	0.080	0.06
Cu-Copper	0.31	0.35	0.52	0.35	0.110	0.693	0.06
Cr-Chromium	0.37	0.41	0.46	0.48	0.156	0.124	0.05
Se-Selenium	0.30 a	0.22 b	0.22 b	0.35 a	<0.0001	0.377	0.02
Trace mineral
Ni-Nickel	1.13 ab	1.17 a	0.75 b	1.10 ab	0.044	0.094	0.101

HIM0, fish meal group; HIM25, HIM35, and HIM50%, Hermetia illucens meal at 25, 35, and 50% substitution rates of fish meal groups, respectively.

Fish: 18 per diet, 6 fish per tank, and 3 replications per diet.

Mean values with different letters in the same row are significantly different at p < 0.05.

¹Standard error of the mean.

²Diet.

³Body weight.