In many cases the removal of cyst water is an efficient way to terminate the state of
diapause. This can be achieved by drying the cysts at temperatures not exceeding 35-4°C
or by suspending the cysts in a saturated NaCl brine solution (300 g.l-1). As some form of
dehydration is part of most processing and/or storage procedures, diapause termination
does not require any particular extra manipulation. Nevertheless, with some strains of
Artemia cysts the usual cyst processing techniques does not yield a sufficiently high hatching
quality, indicating that a more specific diapause deactivation method is necessary.