The Company of Biologists

Table 1.

Composition of basal diet (first experiment)

Ingredients	%
Menhaden fish meal	25.0
Wheat gluten meal	20.0
Wheat flour	23.0
Fish oil	25.0
Vitamin mix(#30)^{^*}	1.0
Trace mineral mix(#3)^{^*}	0.1
Other micronutrients^{^†}	5.9
Total	100.0

Ingredients	%
Menhaden fish meal	25.0
Wheat gluten meal	20.0
Wheat flour	23.0
Fish oil	25.0
Vitamin mix(#30)^{^*}	1.0
Trace mineral mix(#3)^{^*}	0.1
Other micronutrients^{^†}	5.9
Total	100.0

Constituents	% (dry basis)
Crude protein	37.3
Crude fat	28.5
Crude fiber	3.4
Ash	7.5

Standard USFWS pre-mixtures (see Halver, 1989).

†

As dietary %: choline chloride, 0.2; myo-inositol, 0.05; ascorbic acid,0.05; lysine hydrochloride, 0.2; NaCl, 0.3; KCl, 0.6; MgSO₄, 0.2;FeSO₄ 7H₂O, 0.015; SiO₂, 1.0;alpha-cellulose, 3.285.

View Large

This Feature Is Available To Subscribers Only