The role of dietary chia seed powder in modulating cold stress-related impacts in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus

Two months feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the role of chia seed powder (CSP) enriched diets in improving Oreochromis niloticus tolerance to cold thermal stress. A total of 200 Nile tilapia fish were divided into 5 experimental groups with 4 replicates (10 fish/ replicate). Experimental groups were fed on the basal diet (BD) supplemented with CSP at levels 0.0, 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 6 g/ kg diet and reared at 16–19 °C temperature range. Fish growth performance (final weight, total gain, and specific growth rate) was linearly increased with increasing dietary CSP supplementation (linear, P