Table 5 Formulation and proximate chemical composition of diets.
Ingredients (%) | Diets | ||
|---|---|---|---|
C8 | C16 | C24 | |
Fish meal | 57 | 57 | 57 |
Wheat gluten | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Alpha-starch | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Corn starch | 1.7 | 9.7 | 17.7 |
Soybean lecithin | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Fish oil | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
Choline chloride | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Ethoxyquin | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Mold inhibitor | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Monocalcium phosphate | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Vitamin premixa | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Minerals premixb | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
Carboxymethyl cellulose | 16.65 | 8.65 | 0.65 |
Proximate analysis | |||
Dry matter (DM), % diet | 96.80 | 97.23 | 96.96 |
Crude protein, % DM | 49.59 | 49.60 | 50.04 |
Crude lipid, % DM | 9.73 | 9.98 | 9.96 |
Reducing sugar, % DM | 7.01 | 15.60 | 23.18 |
Ash, % DM | 12.46 | 11.73 | 12.13 |
Gross energy (GE), kJ/g | 18.93 | 19.06 | 19.20 |