Hit and trial method for artificial feed formulation- Winter School on Recent Advances in Breeding and Larviculture of Marine Finfish and Shellfish

摘要

Feed formulation is a technique to be learnt and refined by experience. To date numerous descriptions haveudappeared in nutrition textbooks. The exercise taught over and over again is difficult to comprehend especially by theudbeginners. The purpose of this article is to describe and share some of this authors experience in teaching andudlearning feed formulation; mainly for aquatic animal research. Previous descriptions on the subject can be had fromudNew, 1987 ad Houser and Akiyama 1997 among which New 1987 describes the subject with a lay man in mind. Hereudagain, the emphasis is to describe the technique in the simplest way by which it is presumed that, beginners in theudsubject of aquatic animal nutrition shall be benefited