Food intake rate and delivery strategy in aquaculture

In aquaculture, it is important to estimate in advance how much food cultured animals would take. The rate of food consumption by cultured animals to available food amount is defined as the food intake rate （FIR） in this paper. To some extents, FIR reflects the quality of food, the health of cultured animals and the delivery efficiency. In practice, it is difficult to estimate in advance the accurate quantity of food that cultured animal needs. Usually, food is provided more than the need by animals, causing excess food that may pollute water and environment. Our experiments in past years show that FIR at 80% is recommended.     

锈色尖毛虫(Oxytricha ferruginea)的形态学重描述及与相近种的比较(纤毛门,腹毛目)

利用活体观察、蛋白银染色技术对淡水腹毛目纤毛虫—锈色尖毛虫 (Oxytricha ferrug-inea Stein,185 9)的青岛种群之活体形态学及纤毛图式做了研究。其特征如下 :虫体浅黄褐色 ;表膜下颗粒为铁锈色 ,聚合成组并作纵向不规则排列。口围带平均小膜数为 35。额、腹、横棘毛为典型8∶ 5∶ 5方式排布 ;尾棘毛恒为 1根。背触毛 5列 ,其中 4列完整 ,1列不完整。伸缩泡位于体左侧前1/ 3处 ,具两根收集管。与相近种比较表明 ,O.ferruginea与前人所报道的另一淡水种 O.aerugi-nosa极可能是同一种 ,因此本文建议将两者合并。