. 2022 Sep 23;9:1011715. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.1011715

Table 3.

Effects of dietary supplementation with β-glucan and/or Bacillus coagulans on performance, and efficiency of feed of tilapia fish.

Parameters	Dietary treatments						Pooled SEM	p-value
	CNT	BG	BC1	BC2	BG+BC1	BG+BC2
IBW (g)	6.95	7.18	7.25	6.60	7.21	7.29	0.16	0.1171
FBW (g)	64.48^d	69.46^c	69.82^c	74.35^b	76.63^b	81.04^a	0.93	< 0.001
CBWG (g)	57.54^d	62.28^c	62.57^c	67.75^b	69.42^b	73.75^a	0.94	< 0.001
ADG (g)	0.59^d	0.64^c	0.64^c	0.69^b	0.71^b	0.75^a	0.01	< 0.001
SGR (% d⁻¹)	2.28^c	2.33^bc	2.30^c	2.41^ab	2.47^a	2.48^a	0.03	< 0.001
RGR (g/g)	8.47^b	8.87^b	8.81^b	9.82^a	10.33^a	10.53^a	0.28	< 0.001
FCR (g/g)	1.42	1.39	1.66	1.28	1.38	1.21	0.14	0.2777
PER (g/g)	2.35^c	2.41^c	2.41^c	2.62^b	2.62^b	2.77^a	0.04	< 0.001

IBW, initial body weight; FBW, final body weight; CBWG, cumulative body weight gain; ADG, average daily gain; SGR. Specific growth rate; RGR, relative growth rate; FCR, feed conversion ratio; PER, protein efficiency ratio.

One-way ANOVA non-significant for P > 0.05. The different letters within the same raw indicated to significance variation. Data were presented as the mean ± pooled standard error.