The present investigation assessed the nutritive value of
adult fairy shrimp, S. dichotomus, as a potential candidate
which can be used as a maturation diet. Our previous
study further strengthens the utilization of adult fairy
shrimp by enhancing the nutritive value by exogenous
sources (Velu & Munuswamy, 2004). Although fresh-live
diet forms have high nutritive value, harvested fairy
shrimp can also be frozen, freeze-dried or acid preserved
for later use or made into flakes or other forms of formulated
feeds like Artemia, and will increase their utility and
initiate a new approach in using these fairy shrimps in
aquaculture