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Figure 1.— The number of lobsters surviving in each treatment over the time course of the 



experiment. 



fed groups molted twice during the experiment end- 

 ing at Stage VI. There was no significant difference 

 between the two fed groups in the number of days 

 from Stage IV to Stage V. However, the plankton- 

 fed group took an average of 34 days to molt from 

 Stage V to Stage VI, significantly longer than the 



brine shrimp-fed group which took 23 days (Students 

 t-test, P < 0.001; Fig. 2). 



Both fed groups showed significant increase in 

 CL and weight (Students t-test, P < 0.001). The 

 group fed brine shrimp grew more; they were 

 significantly larger (Students i-test, P < 0.05) 



10 



20 30 40 



DRYS (OCT-DEC, 1984) 



50 



60 



Figure 2.- 



-The cumulative number of lobsters in each treatment molting from (A) Stage IV to 

 Stage V and (B) Stage V to Stage VI. 



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