“…Additionally, a single microalgae diet is not optimal to support different stages of bivalve development, thereby necessitating the need for maintaining multiple microalgae species (Utting & Spencer, 1991). The demand for an alternative diet was identified in 1990 (Coutteau & Sorgeloos, 1992), and several options have been explored, such as microalgae concentrate, microalgae paste, dried microalgae, microencapsulated diet, yeast, bacteria, single-cell detritus, cornmeal, cheese whey, gelatine acacia spray bead, emulsion and liposome (Ehteshami et al, 2017;Knauer & Southgate, 1999;Robert & Trintignac, 1997;Tanyaros et al, 2016).…”