Fig 1. General schedule of the protocol applied in the experiment, and the treatments used in juveniles of the redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus Black square: Fed and White square: Unfed.

Temperature regimes: 23±1°C, 27±1°C and 31±1°C and feeding regimes: DF (juveniles fed daily throughout the experimental period) and CF (juveniles fed for 4 days followed by 4 days of food deprivation, intermittently during the first 45 days of the experimental period and fed daily from day 45 to day 90).