fed on the experimental diets

Items	Diets No (On DM basis, %)					SE*
Items	D₁, Control	D₂	D₃	D₄	D₅	SE*
Initial weight, g/fish	18.57	18.24	18.67	18.35	18.55	1.25
Final body weight, g/fish	47.52^c	55.86^a^b	60.45^a	53.54^b	55.28^a^b	2.31
Average total gain¹, g/fish	28.95^c	37.62^a^b	41.78^a	35.19^b	36.73^a^b	1.54
Average daily gain², g/fish/day	0.34^c	0.45^a^b	0.50^a	0.42^b	0.44^a^b	0.01
Specific growth rate³ (SGR % /day)	1.12^c	1.33^b	1.39^a	1.27b^c	1.30^b	0.30
Survival rate⁴, %	97	97	100	97	100	3.12
Feed intake (FI), DM g/fish	55.76	56.98	57.24	58.50	57.36	2.41
Feed conversion ratio⁵ (FCR)	1.74^a	1.37^c	1.24d	1.50^b	1.41^c	0.31
Protein efficiency ratio⁶ (PER)	1.94d	2.47^b	2.73^a	2.26^c	2.40^b	0.45
Protein productive value⁷ (PPV, %)	13.10^c	15.32^b	17.87^a	12.78 ^c	15.70^b	1.14

*Means in the same rows having different superscript letters were significantly different at 0.05 levels

Table 3: Growth performance parameters of Nile tilapia (O. niloticus) fed on the experimental diets.

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