Research Article

Nutritional Performance of Juvenile Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) Fed Various Fish, Shrimp, and Squid Diets

Table 2

Conversion factors of calories per gram of dry and wet weights of each feed and water percentage for each experimental diet component. These factors were used to calculate how much wet feed to feed to each tank isocalorically based on tank biomass.

Experimental diet componentCalories/g dry weightCalories/g wet weight% Water

D. punctatus fish3.880.9974.56
L. vannamei shrimp3.680.9574.30
L. opalescens squid4.090.8277.77
Illex squid4.501.0080.00