being the color differences observed using
subjective assessment due to the location of
pigmentation. For shrimp grown in black tanks,
astaxanthin was spread in the epidermis while for
shrimp grown in white tanks it was densely
packed in chromatophores, i.e., the difference
relies on the way these compounds, in particular
astaxanthin, are deposited in these crustaceans
and not on the accumulated amount