Functional Effects of Hydrolyzable Tannins on the Growth, Health Status, and Hepatopancreas Histology of Pacific White Shrimp Penaeus vannamei Reared under Commercial Pond Conditions

Table 4

Growth performance of Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) (mean initial weight 0.87 ± 0.02 g) fed the experimental diets for 90 days.

Diet codes	Final body weight (g)	Survival (%)	PWG^1 (%)	FCR^2	TGC^3	ADG^4
BD	13.89^bc	82.44	1,496.55^bc	1.39^bc	0.5404^bc	0.1543^bc
BD-0.1% HT	14.04^b	84.73	1,514.02^b	1.38^c	0.5434^bc	0.1560^b
BD-0.2% HT	14.13^b	85.88	1,524.83^b	1.37^c	0.5456^b	0.1571^b
BD-0.3% HT	14.47^a	90.99	1,563.68^a	1.34^d	0.5528^a	0.1608^a
LFM 0.3% HT	13.60^d	88.03	1,462.76^d	1.43^a	0.5340^d	0.1511^d
BDTD-0.4% HT	14.09^bc	87.50	1,519.77^b	1.37^c	0.5446^b	0.1566^b
CD	13.77^cd	82.81	1,482.99^cd	1.41^ab	0.5378^cd	0.1530^cd
CDTD-0.4% HT	13.88^bc	81.31	1,495.17^bc	1.39^bc	0.5402^bc	0.1542^bc
p-value	<0.0001	0.7955	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
PSE^5	0.0479	3.7664	5.5043	0.0049	0.0001	0.0054

Note: ¹PWG, percentage weight gain; ²FCR, feed conversion ratio; ³TGC, thermal growth coefficient; ⁴ADG, average daily growth; ⁵PSE, pooled standard error. Results in the same row with different superscript letter are significantly different () based on analysis of variance followed by the Tukey’s multiple comparison test.