Water depth and feed pellet type effects on growth and feed utilization in the rearing of green turtle (Chelonia mydas Linnaeus, 1758)

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Table 5

Hematological parameters of post-hatching green turtles reared under different water depths (15 and 30 cm) and fed with commercial feed pellets (sinking or floating type).^a The data (mean ± SEM) are for turtles sampled at the end of the experiment.

Parameter^b	15 cm		30 cm		P-values of the factors^c

	Sinking pellet	Floating pellet	Sinking pellet	Floating pellet	Depth	Pellet	Depth × Pellet
Packed cell volume (%)	26.67 ± 1.45	27.67 ± 4.18	29.00 ± 3.06	19.67 ± 5.70	0.490	0.318	0.224
Hemoglobin (g dL⁻¹)	4.30 ± 0.25	5.03 ±0.70	5.20 ± 0.38	3.73 ± 0.75	0.731	0.532	0.086
RBC (×10⁵ cells μL⁻¹)	4.30 ± 0.32	4.40 ± 0.47	5.27 ± 0.15	3.83 ± 0.58	0.641	0.145	0.100
WBC (×10⁶ cells μL⁻¹)	9.55 ± 0.84	12.07 ± 2.18	11.10 ± 1.25	9.22 ± 1.36	0.674	0.837	0.177
HLR	0.53 ± 0.09	0.69 ± 0.05	0.77 ± 0.03	0.57 ± 0.02	0.279	0.655	0.013
BUN (mg dL⁻¹)	40.33 ± 3.18	37.33 ± 3.38	40.00 ± 4.58	46.00 ± 3.61	0.296	0.698	0.262
Creatinine (mg dL⁻¹)	0.35 ± 0.06	0.37 ± 0.06	0.39 ± 0.06	0.41 ± 0.03	0.475	0.794	0.977
Uric acid (mg dL⁻¹)	0.87 ± 0.17	0.87 ± 0.09	0.86 ± 0.03	0.93 ± 0.15	0.789	0.789	0.790
ALP (U L⁻¹)	139.67 ± 20.61	144.33 ± 3.71	133.00 ± 17.44	125.00 ± 8.28	0.387	0.910	0.668
ALT (U L⁻¹)	9.00 ± 1.01	7.67 ± 1.20	11.33 ± 0.88	9.50 ± 1.50	0.108	0.204	0.831
AST (U L⁻¹)	158.67 ± 17.90	171.33 ± 23.73	138.00 ± 6.43	170.50 ± 28.50	0.600	0.287	0.628

Commercial floating or sinking feed pellets for marine carnivorous fish (Charoen Pokphand PCL., Samut Sakhon, Thailand).

RBC, red blood cells; WBC, white blood cells; HLR, heterophil:lymphocyte ratio; BUN, blood urea nitrogen; ALP, alkaline phosphatase; ALT, alanine transaminase; AST, aspartate transaminase.

Significant values are indicated by bold type (P < 0.05).

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