Research Article

Effects of Different Habitat Space on Growth Performance and Nutritional Composition of Swimming Crabs (Portunus trituberculatus)

Table 2

Changes of body weight and carapace width of crabs in different habitat space.

ParameterDifferent habitat space
0.5 m21 m210 m2100 m2

IBW (g)19.25 ± 0.8819.71 ± 0.9219.07 ± 0.9618.70 ± 0.76
FBW (g)199.40 ± 16.51218.75 ± 23.31201.21 ± 8.77189.25 ± 9.3
Rw (%)935.85 ± 81.371009.83 ± 118.27955.11 ± 44.74912.03 ± 49.74
SRw (%/d)2.24 ± 0.082.29 ± 0.102.28 ± 0.042.24 ± 0.05
ICW (cm)5.73 ± 0.115.76 ± 0.125.72 ± 0.105.67 ± 0.08
FCW (cm)11.91 ± 0.3812.27 ± 0.4512.02 ± 0.1811.79 ± 0.22
Rc (%)107.77 ± 6.27112.93 ± 7.85110.09 ± 3.07107.85 ± 3.83
SRc (%/d)0.71 ± 0.030.73 ± 0.030.72 ± 0.010.71 ± 0.02

No superscripts values in the same row represents that there was no significant difference (). aIBW means initial body weight; bFBW means final body weight; cRw means weight gain rate; dSRw means weight-specific growth rate; eICW means initial carapace width; fFCW means final carapace width; gRc means carapace width gain rate; hSRc means carapace width-specific growth rate.