Evaluation of Krill Meal in Commercial Diets for Juvenile Swimming Crab (Portunus trituberculatus)

Table 1

Ingredients and proximate composition of the experimental diets (dry matter basis, %).

Ingredients	Replacement levels of FM with KM
	0%	10%	20%	30%
Peru fish meal	40.00	36.00	32.00	28.00
Soybean meal	20.00	20.00	20.00	20.00
Krill meal	0.00	4.78	9.56	14.34
Yeast brewers	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00
Wheat flour	22.89	22.89	22.89	22.89
Lysine	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.02
Methionine	0.09	0.07	0.06	0.04
Fish oil	2.85	2.39	1.94	1.48
Soybean lecithin	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Vitamin premix^a	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Mineral premix^b	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Ca(H2PO4)2	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Choline chloride	0.30	0.30	0.30	0.30
Sodium alginate	2.00	2.00	2.00	2.00
Cellulose	1.83	1.54	1.23	0.93
Proximate composition (%)
Dry matter	89.52	88.84	91.58	91.34
Ash	11.09	10.78	10.89	10.95
Lipid	8.99	8.90	9.03	8.89
Protein	44.94	45.99	45.23	45.59
Fluorine content (mg/kg)	27.16	94.06	153.81	265.30

^{a, b}The preparation of mineral mixture and vitamin mixture was on the basis of Wang et al. [25].