| Table 9. Feed formulae (ingredient composition) and proximate composition of commonly used pellet feed for different life stages in intensive farming system | ||
| Ingredient/proximate composition (% dry matter) | Life stages/size class | |
| Fingerling (Tahiti) (a) | Grower (Malaysia) (b) | |
| Ingredient composition (%) | ||
| Fish meal | 34 | 34 |
| Fish concentrate | 20 | |
| Meat and bone meal | 4 | 10 |
| Alfalfa | 3 | |
| Soybean | 10 | |
| Soybean meal | 15 | |
| Sesame cake meal, expellar | 5 | |
| Groundnut meal, expellar | 5 | |
| Whole wheat | 8 | |
| Rice bran, solvent extracted | 10 | |
| Leaf meal | 5 | |
| Tapioca | 8 | |
| Dry whey | 4 | |
| Yeast | 10 | |
| Vitamin & Mineral mixture | 3.4 | 1 |
| Soybean or corn oil | 4 | |
| Squid or pollack liver oil | 3 | |
| Capelin oil | 4 | |
| BHT | 0.02 | |
| Ethoxyquin | 0.015 | |
| Proximate composition (%) | ||
| Dry matter | ||
| Crude protein | 48 | 38.7 |
| Crude lipid | 10.6 | 13.9 |
| Ash | 7.9 | 14.1 |
| Crude fibre | 5.5 | |
| NFE | 27.1 | |
| Gross energy (kJ/g feed) | 20.5 | |
| Cost (US$/kg) | 0.36 | |
| Data source: (a) Kanazawa (1984); (b) Aquacop et al. (1989) | ||