title: Description of a modular, low cost, eater meter for the study of feeding behavior and food preferences in fish.
abstract: The eater meter described in this paper is especially designed for fish studies. It consists of three parts: the detector, the feeder, and the interface between the detector and the feeder. The detector is a rod that closed a circuit (by contact or through a magnetic detector) when stuck by a fish, the feeder is electric and can be of any commercial model, and the interface is a simple electronic device, or a computer. Some preliminary results obtained with rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, are also presented in order to illustrate the uses of this modular eater meter for fish.
authors: INRA, Unité de Nutrition des poissons, Saint-Pée-Sur-Nivelle, France.
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authors: Boujard
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authors: Dugy
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authors: Genner
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authors: Gosset
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authors: Grig
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003196:Computer Graphics / Q000295:instrumentation; D004867:Equipment Design; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005518:Food Preferences; D008838:Microcomputers; D011603:Psychophysiology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012474:Salmon; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012931:Social Environment; D013045:Species Specificity