White Mulberry (Morus alba) Foliage Methanolic Extract Can Alleviate Aeromonas hydrophila Infection in African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus)

Table 2

Experiment 1: growth performance and hepatosomatic index in African catfish fed diets with different amounts (2, 5, or 7 g/kg dry matter) of Morus alba foliage extract (MFE).

Parameters	Diets^1
	Control	MFE-2	MFE-5	MFE-7
Body weight gain (g)	80.5 ± 5.2	80.0 ± 3.7	85.3 ± 5.5	83.1 ± 4.0
Feed intake (g 60/days)	97.9 ± 4.2	96.1 ± 2.4	99.7 ± 3.9	98. 2 ± 5.1
Feed conversion ratio	1.22 ± 0.05	1.20 ± 0.09	1.17 ± 0.04	1.18 ± 0.08
Specific growth rate (%)	3.93 ± 0.32	3.97 ± 0.18	4.01 ± 0.21	3.95 ± 0.16
Mortality (%)	8.80 ± 1.03^a	7.70 ± 1.51^a	0.00^b	0.00^b
Hepatosomatic index (%)	1.65 ± 0.08	1.56 ± 0.05	1.59 ± 0.07	1.67 ± 0.09
Total body length (cm)	18.6 ± 1.7	18.0 ± 1.5	19.9 ± 1.8	19.5 ± 2.3

Means within the same row with different superscript letters are significantly different ().
¹MFE-2, MFE-5, and MFE-7 were control diet plus 2, 5, or 7 g kg⁻¹ dry matter of Morus alba foliage extract, respectively.
Values are the treatment means ± standard error.