Table 1. Growth performance of experimental groups in Experiment III during the experiment

Experimental groups	Group A (12°C)	Control (16°C)	Group B (20°C)
Initial body weight (g)	95.95 ± 0.84	98.68 ± 1.56	95.37 ± 0.21
Final body weight (g)	147.64 ± 2.10^b	170.44 ± 4.98^a	135.82 ± 0.33^c
Weight gain (%)	53.85 ± 0.85^b	65.93 ± 2.33^a	42.42 ± 0.66^c
Specific growth rate (%)	0.69 ± 0.01^b	0.82 ± 0.02^a	0.57 ± 0.01^c
Feed efficiency (%)	51.58 ± 2.82^a	60.94 ± 2.56^a	26.68 ± 1.82^b
Daily feed intake (%)	1.27 ± 0.02^c	1.47 ± 0.04^b	1.57 ± 0.001^a
Condition factor	0.89 ± 0.01^c	0.97 ± 0.003^a	0.95 ± 0.0001^b

The values are mean ± SE (n = 240).
Weight gain: (final body weight – initial body weight) / initial body weight × 100; specific growth rate: [ln(final body weight) – ln(initial body weight)] / days reared × 100; feed efficiency: (wet weight gain / feed intake) × 100; daily feed intake: F / [(initial body weight + final body weight + dead fish weight) × days reared / 2] × 100; condition factor: (final body weight / total length³) × 100.
Means within each item followed by the same alphabetic letter are not significantly different (p > 0.05).