Early Mild Stress along with Lipid Improves the Stress Responsiveness of Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus)

Table 3

Growth performance of oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) fed experimental diets containing different levels of lipid and carbohydrate and exposed to numbers of stress.

	HL0Stress	HL2Stresses	HL4Stresses	LL0Stress	LL2Stresses	LL4Stresses
Initial weight (g)
Weight gain (g)
SGR (%/day)
FCR
DFI (%/day)
HSI (%)
VSI (%)
Condition factor
Survival rate (%)^#
Survival rate after AC (%)^$

; SGR: specific ; FCR: (g); DFI: ; HSI: ; ; CF: ; ^#; ^$survival rate after 48 hours acute confinement stress (AC stress). The six treatments were HL0Stress (high-lipid diet and without stress), HL2Stress (high-lipid diet and two-week stress), HL4Stress (high-lipid diet and four-week stress), LL0Stress (low-lipid diet and without stress), LL2Stress (low-lipid diet and two-week stress), and LL4Stress (low-lipid diet and four-week stress).Values are represented by of triplicate tanks; means without letter labels are not significantly different.