Tropical shrimp sticks - Test report
Shrimp sticks is an alone feed for sweetness and salt water shrimps and cancers and also for other crustaceans which are held in an aquarium.
During the production of the feed, respect was spent to water compatibility and on natural claims of the animals. Since February 2006 these are available on the market and were the first alone feed for shrimps and cancers at that time.
Over 5 months we tested the new shrimp and cancer feed of the company Tropical in cooperation with them. We particularly spent a look on the compatibility of the feed and also on the interest of the animals at this.
We always tested at one type of shrimps or cancers that were split up in two groups. That means to split up the basin in two parts with one type of shrimps in every part, left and right. One side was fed with the shrimp sticks and the other side furthermore with usual spirulina feed tablets, granular materials and so on.
Already after the first gift of the sticks, a high acceptance could be observed not only at the shrimps but also at the cancers. The only exception were fan shrimps. Indeed, these came from their caches and diversified the ground after eatable shrimp sticks. Since they are filterer and mainly filter the finest feed particles from the water, quickly dissolving types of feed are better suitable for fan shrimps. This feed has to be scattered on the surface of the water like some powders but also ground tablets, etc.
Even sticks that do not land in the next area of a shrimp or a cancer can be recognized by their sense organs. Then the animals start to move in direction of the feed and take it with their mouth tools without problems.
At full-grown cancers at those again and again slough problems occured, showed a clear drop of losses and less slough problems. The animals showed themselves also more energetic. The scissor strength of the cancers increased clearly and deformations of feelers and scissors that often occured after a slough could hardly be observed after they ate the shrimp sticks.
Especially shrimps with red clays, as Red Cherry shrimps, that need the carotenes for the coloring, showed a faster and more intense coloring. The test group was N. denticulata sinensis var. red.
Shrimp sticks are recommended as main feed for shrimps and cancers very much. The sticks support the slough and the growth. Through their specific composition from a high green food part of 3% spirulin alga and 45% raw proteins, they prevent slough problems, facilitate the lock-out of the old tank and support the formation of a healthy and faster curing tank.
The sticks are 24 hour water stable and do not load the water quality. They consist of carotenes that support the coloring especially of red shrimps and they are accepted not only by cancers but also by shrimps and crabs.
Composition:
High green feed part with at least 3% spirulina alga, mineral materials and protein carriers from shrimps and fish. Corresponds to the food claims of shrimps and cancers.
Content materials:
45% raw protein: responsible for the formation of muscles, bone, blood, tissue. Growth and formation of enzymes.
7,0% raw fat: is used for the energy generation
4,0 % raw fibre: responsible for the regulation of the feed in the colon and guarantees for a good digestion.
10 % raw ash: supply with mineral materials and trace elements.
Additives:
Astaxanthin 80mg/kg is a natural dye (Corotinoid) that is responsible for the red coloring of crustaceans and is extracted industrially from the Haematococcus plvialis alga. Especially interesting is also the fact that astaxanthin has a vitamin like effect and affects the fertility and the immune defense positively throuhg that.
Vitamin A: 29.800 IU/kg. Responsible for the promotion of the growth and the propagation willingness. The immune system and the infection denfense is strengthened.
Vitamin D3: 1.890 IU/kg. Vitamin D increases the resorption of calcium and phosphate from the intestine by having influence in the formation of a calcium binding transportation egg white. Guarantees for an optimal supply and formation of the new tank, what prevents slough problems.
Vitamin E: 100mg/kg Antioxidantie. Leads at lack appearances to troubles in the musculature and in the nervous system.
Vitamin C: 250mg/kg. Strengthening of the immune system. Promotion of the formation of bones and strengthening of the tank at crustaceans. |
