Table 3. Comparison of fatty acid compositions (% of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME)) (Mean ± SD) of live prey organisms as food for developing fish and crustaceans’ larvae.

	Artemia 2	Mysids	Copepods	Rotifer	Moina spp.2
Total lipids	ND1	10.6 ± 0.1a	ND1	ND1	9.84 ± 2.46a
Fatty acids
C14:0	0.47 ± 0.05d	3.1 ± 1.5c	5.47 ± 0.09a	0.98 ± 0.12d	5.43 ± 0.05a
C16:0	10.50 ± 0.25e	26.5 ± 4.7a	19.40 ± 0.15c	17.0 ± 1.02d	20.16 ± 0.25b
C16:1n-7	1.46 ± 0.06c	11.8 ± 2.5a	4.61 ± 0.39b	1.38 ± 0.34c	3.38 ± 0.10b
C18:0	6.57 ± 0.48d	9.1 ± 0.6b	4.55 ± 0.37c	5.61 ± 0.43c,d	13.24 ± 0.16a
C18:1n-9	18.9 ± 0.31a	7.8 ± 2.5c	1.61 ± 0.39d	7.92 ± 0.54c	10.94 ± 0.04b
C18:2n-6	5.29 ± 0.76c	6.1 ± 1.4c	ND1	22.2 ± 0.59a	13.64 ± 0.07b
C20:4n-6	0.48 ± 0.13c	6.4 ± 1.3a	0.44 ± 0.22c	2.38 ± 0.56b	ND1
C20:5n-3	2.19 ± 0.64c	15.3 ± 1.6a	6.61 ± 0.39b	3.53 ± 0.31c	0.66 ± 0.06d
C22:6n-3	0.39 ± 0.03d	13.2 ± 1.8a	2.76 ± 0.21c	5.05 ± 0.79b	ND1
DHA: EPA	0.20 ± 0.07c	0.9 ± 0.1b	ND1	1.40 ± 0.29a	ND1

Notes:

¹ND: No data available.

²Source: Das et al. (2007), Eusebio, Coloso & Gapasin, 2010, Rocha et al. (2017), Yuslan et al. (2022a).

Lowercase letters indicate significant different of fatty acid compositions between each different species of zooplankton, p < 0.05.