Growth Performance and Stress Responses of Larval Mississippi Paddlefish Polyodon spathula to Hypoxia under Different Diet Treatments

Table 1

Growth performance of Mississippi paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) under different dietary treatments (mean ± SE).

Treatment	IBW (g)	FBW (g)	BL (cm)	WG (%)^1	Mortality (%)
Initial			5.54±0.07^a
Live food	1.14±0.02	5.67±0.11^a	11.84±0.50^b	435.31±11.14^a	15.56±2.94^a
1/2 Live food + 1/2 formulated food	1.14±0.03	4.33±0.18^b	11.48±0.33^b	303.05±25.06^b	26.67±3.85^a
Formulated food	1.15±0.03	3.77±0.35^b	10.34±0.39^c	246.14±29.06^b	64.44±7.29^b

Note: IBW: initial body weight; FBW: final body weight; BL: body length.
1WG (%): weight gain (%) = (final weight − initial weight)/initial weight × 100.
Values with different letters within the same column are significantly different (𝑃<0.05).