I. Purpose The purpose of our experiment was to find how diet affects the growth rate of Macrobachium rosenbergii. The two variables included within our experiment were the use of two different food particles: protein and fatty substances with a separation net to separate the pairs of shrimp. The goal of our experiment was to find where shrimp will grow the largest, in a region where the particles of food are fatty, or where the particles are high in protein. Shrimp are structurally similar to lobsters and crayfish, but they lack enlarged pincers and are flattened laterally instead of horizontally. The animals are usually transparent or are green or brown in color. They have thick-muscled ab