classfied

	5 days week^-1	6 days week^-1	7 days week^-1	P-value
Initial Wt. (kg)	1.50 ± .01^a	1.50 ± .01^a	1.50 ± .01^a	0.815
Final Wt. (kg)	1.63 ± .01^a	1.69 ± .01^ab	1.74 ± .03^b	0.015*
Initial L¹ (cm)	52.43 ± .05^a	52.70 ± .11^a	52.54 ± .27^a	0.567
Final L (cm)	53.47 ± .09^a	53.97 ± .44^a	53.98 ± .81^a	0.459
Initial CI²	1.03 ± .01^a	1.02 ± .01^a	1.03 ± .02^a	0.694
Final CI	1.06 ± .01^a	1.07 ± .01^ab	1.09 ± .01^b	0.049*
TWG (kg)³	2.66 ± .23^a	3.83 ± .26^ab	4.76 ± .71^b	0.048*
AGR (g fish^-1day^-1)⁴	4.03 ± .35^a	5.80 ± .39 ^ab	7.21 ± 1.08^b	0.048*
SGR (% day^-1)⁵	0.26 ± .02^a	0.36 ± .02^ab	0.44 ± .06^b	0.049*
Feed eaten (kg)	4.32 ± .22^a	5.28 ± .12^ab	6.11 ± .53^b	0.028*
FCR⁶	1.63 ± .07^a	1.38 ± .05^ab	1.30 ± .07^b	0.031*
FCE (%)⁷	61.28 ± 2.47^a	72.31 ± 3.29^ab	77.11 ± 4.50^b	0.047*
PER⁸	1.36 ± .05^a	1.61 ± .07^ab	1.71± .10^b	0.047*

Table 4: Influence of feeding frequencies: 5, 6 and 7 days week-1 at noon (12-1 pm) on growth parameters, feed efficiency and condition of two-year-old mulloway (Argyrosomusjaponicus) reared in tanks for 30 days. Data are means (± standard error) of three replicate tanks (20 fish each) for each frequency. Means with different superscripts (a, b) within rows are significantly different (P < 0.05; Tukey test). P is probability value and * is significant.