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The lack of reliable artificial rations is commonly cited as a major impediment in the development of an economically viable aquaculture industry. Research efforts leading to adequate crustacean diets have been especially slow. Recent experiments carried out at the Bodega Marine Laboratory and the University of California at Davis with lobster rations serve to illustrate the problems associated with defining nutritional requirements of crustaceans. Data are presented relating shell erosion in juvenile lobsters to a nutritional deficiency. Results from additional experiments on lobster consumption patterns and on the leaching of water‐soluble nutrients are related to this deficiency. The total of these experiments suggests that a revaluation of the current approach to crustacean diet development will be required before further progress can be made.

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