“…In brine shrimps, the use of cheap diets for mass culturing has been widely explored (Sick, 1976;Dobbeleir et al, 1980;Johnson, 1980;Sorgeloos et al, 1980;Brisset et al, 1982;Lavens et al, 1987;Robin et al, 1987;Basil and Pandian, 1991;Thinh et al, 1999), but little comparable work has been done on freshwater anostracans (De Walsche et al, 1991;Ali and Brendonck, 1995;Munuswamy et al, 1997). The effects of different food types on the growth rate, maturation, and life-span in fairy shrimps were first investigated by Kallinowsky (1955), Moore (1957), and Sluzhevskaya (1975).…”