Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8496338 Aquaculture 2008 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
The results indicate that J. edwardsii cannot achieve high levels of feed consumption on formulated diets because gut throughput is reduced due to a small foregut capacity, expansion of the feed post-ingestion, lengthy foregut filling time (1-2 h) and clearance time (10 h), combined with slow gut throughput time (34-42 h) and appetite revival (> 18 h). A slow appetite revival and difficulties in processing and digestion of formulated diets appear as major issues to be resolved to improve the performance of formulated diets required for the commercial aquaculture of J. edwardsii and possibly other spiny lobsters.
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