Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Table 3 Feed consumption of 10-g-size river puffer in response to the number of daily feedings (g)

From: The effect of feeding frequency, water temperature, and stocking density on the growth of river puffer Takifugu obscurus reared in a zero-exchange water system

	1 meal per day	2 meals per day	3 meals per day	5 meals per day
07:30–08:00	317 ± 6.76	229 ± 7.75^a	182 ± 10.7^a	159 ± 7.24^a
10:00–10:30				78.2 ± 4.96^b
12:30–13:00			125 ± 6.14^b	79.4 ± 7.14^b
15:00–15:30				75.6 ± 5.36^b
17:30–18:00		188 ± 9.17^b	134 ± 9.28^b	80.4 ± 4.04^b
Total	317	417	441	473

Data are the total feed consumption of each cage during the 8-week feeding experiment. Means and standard deviations of triplicate for each experimental group. Values in the same column having the same superscript are not significantly different (P < 0.05)

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