Effects of Low or High Dosages of Dietary Sodium Butyrate on the Growth and Health of the Liver and Intestine of Largemouth Bass, Micropterus salmoides

Table 1

Formulation and proximate composition of the experimental diets (g/kg, air dry basis).

	CON	SB2	SB20
Ingredients
Fish meal	350	350	350
Casein	280	280	280
Dextrin	200	200	200
Squid paste	20	20	20
Fish oil	20	20	20
Soybean oil	30	30	30
Soy lecithin	20	20	20
Vitamin and mineral premix	25	25	25
Calcium dihydrogen phosphate	15	15	15
Sodium butyrate	0	2	20
Zeolite powder	40	38	20
Proximate composition
Moisture	8.3	9.0	8.8
Crude lipid	9.4	8.8	9.4
Crude protein	46.9	47.4	46.3
Ash	11.1	10.7	11.1

Vitamin and mineral premix for largemouth mouth bass were provided by Beijing Sangpu Biochemical Technology Co., Ltd. (in China).