fastingIn trial 1 four treatments (each with three replicates) were tested and each was supplied with one single kind of macroal-gae. In each replicate there were five juvenile H. asinina (a total of 15 animals in each treatment), and the control group wassupplied only diets but not abalone. Before the experiment fasting of juvenile abalone for 24 h was needed, and then thediets were fed to abalone at 15% body weight