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Abstract
Effect of relative meal size (0.6–24%) on specific dynamic action (SDA) was assessed in southern catfish juveniles (48.2 ± 3.2 g) at 27.5 °C. Cutlets of freshly killed loach species were used as test diet. Energy expended during SDA was linearly correlated with relative meal size ( r = 0.949, p < 0.001, N = 47). There was no significant difference in SDA coefficient (energy expended on SDA quantified as a percentage of the energy content of the meal) among different relative meal size groups. Factorial metabolic scope increased from 1.47 to 4.08 when the relative meal size increased from 0.6% to 24%. The peak V˙O 2 increased with meal size, but levelled when relative meal size gradually increased to the maximum. SDA duration showed a S-type (slow-fast-slow) increase course with increased meal size. The results of this study suggest that the high postprandial factorial metabolic scope and a trapezoid SDA curve might be the adaptation strategy of warmwater sit-and-wait fish under the natural selection of evolution related to long-term food resources.
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