Hey fishie people welcome back to the channel I am coming at you with a
new series called 365 days of fish keeping, That means for the next 365 days I will be posting
1 video a day highlighting a fish, plant, food or anything else fishkeeping related.
These videos will be quick little snapshots of the subject for the day, if we are talking about fish
or plants you will get a quick synopsis and care guide. Same with food or equipment,
I will also give them a score from 1-10 for my personal like or dislike of the topic for the day.
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For this video I want to look at a fish food that I like to give to my community tanks as
a special treat some time to time. That food is Hikari Freeze Spirulina and Brine Shrimp,
which comes in little cubes for feeding.This is what Hikari has to say about the food “Brine
shrimp harvested at their nutritional peak which offer a natural source for fatty acids and natural
algae. Our gut-loading processing includes spirulina algae to improve coloration and form.
An excellent treat almost any fish will eagerly accept. Our pharmaceutical-grade freeze-drying
techniques allow us to give you a product as close to fresh brine shrimp as humanly possible.
Expect color, texture, and taste not previously available in a freeze-dried food.”
Since it is a freeze dried food it comes with a silica packet to help keep the container moisture
free. Word of advice, do not take this out or your food will get soft and mushy and become
harder to break up to feed. Even with extremely humid weather here in my state over the summer
these little packets were able to keep them dry inside even if I didnt have a perfectly
tight lid on the container. They use a pharmacy grade dehydration method and a bio encapsulate
multi vitamins into the food and best of all their is no artificial colors or preservatives
added to the food. As it is a freeze dried food the ingredient list is very small containing only
Brine Shrimp, Spirulina, and vitamin E, C, B1, B2, B6 and Vitamin B12 supplement. The Crude
Protein is 48%, fat 5.5% fiber .5%. This food is a great thing to add into your feeding
regime for all freshwater and marine fish. It provides similar benefits to feeding natural
algaes fresh and similar high fatty acids counts from live brine shrimp. I personally feed this to
all my fish including tetras, rasboras, bettas, corycats, catfish, rainbows, guppies, mollies,
even occasionally to my African Cichlids and all my fish love when they get this as a treat. I feed
it as a treat rather than a constant food in my regime. So, I typically only feed it to tanks once
or twice a month. As for how much I will feed one whole cube to my 40 gallon community tank
which has over 40 fish in it and will give my 20 gallon wild betta tank with 15 fish a half a cube
and give the other half to my 10 gallon with similar fish. If I am giving it to a betta I
will look for a small piece and break up a little bit on the top of the water. Overall this food is
an awesome food to use and I am so happy I started using it a year ago and have been feeding it ever
since. It was easily accepted by all my fish and I never had any issue with them taking it. I
will give this food a 9.5 out of 10. Taking half a point since it can be harder to get some fish to
eat it as its a powder if you break it up as I go. As always thank you all so very much for the
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