Partial replacement of soybean meal with either raw or sprouted mung bean seeds in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) diets [electronic resource].

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Sprouted or raw mung bean seeds were used in Nile tilapia diets to replace 25% or 50% of soybean meal protein (9.3 and 18.7% of total dietary protein) on an iso-nitrogenous basis. Each diet was offered to three replicate groups of ten fish per treatment with a mean initial weight 23.92 ± 1.2 g. Fish were hand fed the experimental diets for a period of 60 days. Results revealed that fish fed diet containing 25% sprouted mung bean seeds had significantly improved growth and, feed conversion ratio, compared to the other diets. The poorest growth performance was exhibited by the group fed diet with 50% raw mung bean seeds.

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