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Title: GROWTH, FEED CONVERSION, AND PROTEIN UTILIZATION OF NILE TILAPIA FED DIETS CONTAINING CORN GLUTEN MEAL, FULL-FAT SOY, AND SYNTHETIC AMINO ACIDS

Author
item Wu, Ying Victor
item ROSATI, RONALD - ILL STATE UNIV
item BROWN, PAUL - TEXAS A&M UNIV

Submitted to: American Chemical Society Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/13/1997
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Experimental diets containing 36% protein, corn gluten meal, full-fat soy meal, and high-lysine corn were fed to tilapia (a warmwater fish) with 9 g initial weight for 12 weeks in aquaria. Weight gain, feed conversion ratio, and protein efficiency ratio for experimental and control diets were not significantly different and ranged from 754-918%, 1.67-1.79, and 1.42-1.56, respectively. No advantage was gained when fish meal (4 or 8%) was incorporated into the experimental diets. Tilapia fed diets containing 3-4% fat performed equally well compared with fish fed diets with 7-8% fat.