Aquatic ArtsSinking Pellets (.5 lb Spirulina Tabs) Freshwater Fish Food (Cichlid Tetra) | Shrimp Pellets | Aquarium Snail Food (Nerite Trapdoor Ramshorn) | Crayfish Food | Hermit Crab Food and More

This is a good blend of fish meal, vegetable matter, and other nutrients for feeding shrimp or other bottom feeding invertebrates. It does not use copper sulfate as a preservative, which is often found in products for bottom feeding fish. Since copper is toxic to shrimp and other invertebrates, it is best to avoid feeding products that use it. Even though most fish food does not contain enough to immediately kill your shrimp or other invertebrates, the accumulation of it in your tank’s water over time can make them sickly even it does not kill them quickly.These pellets are best used when you have a feeding dish for your shrimp. It sinks quickly and dissolves into a power so that small invertebrates like my baby Red Cherry Shrimp can consume the small particles. They absolutely love it. I use a section of clear plastic pipe to drop the pellets directly into a mussel shell that I use as the shrimps’ feed trough. They eat like little piglets.It is a nice sized container of food, so it will likely last me for years even with a 55 gallon tank full of shrimps. The container is a bit clumsy to open, so I dumped it into a sealed quart jar and store it in my freezer, while keeping some in a small bottle near my tank for daily feedings.I would say that I will buy the product again, but I got so much, I won’t need to buy again for a long time.My shrimp vastly prefer this food to the Shirakura shrimp foods. Because these pellets dissolve fairly quickly, even the baby shrimps, which are barely big enough to see, also love this food. In my community fish tanks, I feed these pellets along with flakes. The surface dwelling fish like Danios get most of the flakes at the surface, so I feed some of these pellets for omnivores like Golden and Cherry Barbs that spend more time near the bottom of the tank. Because the pellets dissolve quickly, I also use them to feed baby fish in my nursery tanks where I breed Endlers, Danios, Barbs, and Tetras. I have a saucer sized freshwater mussel shell in some of my tanks for feeding the pellets so they don't sink down into the sand or gravel substrates, and I use a glass Petri dish in others.

The media could not be loaded. I have waited a month before I did my review. Let me tell you, this is the best food for snails ever! For the price, quantity, and quality this product exceeded my expectations. I did see the comments about the ingredients and took a chance. Within two weeks my blue mystery snail Mo (SloMo) grew around least half an inch of shell and size. It went from this awful brown color to the bright beautiful cream shell “he” was supposed to have. The blue is more vibrant in him. He is more alert and explores his 5 gal tank a lot more. He’s always been fast but he moves and glides in his tank a lot more now that he is receiving the proper nutrients. He can smell the pellets across the tank lol I do recommend buying a glass dish to put the pellets in so it prevents from getting your gravel and tank dirty to contain the ammonia levels, since Mo lives with my betta Kai and two tetras. Water maintenance is a must especially since giving him the pellets once a day at night he poops a lot! But totally worth a healthy snail. Eventually I would like to increase to a 10gal tank. But overall I am quite pleased with this product! He has grown at least three times the size that he was in little over a month. Proof that this is the proper food for him!

I love all of the snails and dwarf shrimps that I have bought from Aquatic Arts. I wasn'tquite ready for them, but it worked out so far. I have used some gravel and plants from an established tank to createa quarantine tank for both the Japanese Trapdoor Snails and the shrimps, and I do a partial water change everyday. I also had read up on their needs and I think I am doing everything correctly. I only lost one yellow shrimp the first day, I think due to stress. They did give me an extra red shrimp, so that worked out. Thank you Aquatic Arts!**As a follow-up about a month later: I did end up losing a lot of my shrimps, and a couple of the Japanese Trapdoor snails. :(. It wasn't Aquatic Arts fault. Amazon had given me an estimate for the delivery and the actual delivery window was two weeks sooner than I had planned/Amazon said. I am still changing the water everyday and keeping a close eye on the water parameters, but unfortunately, I am almost certain that I won't have very many shrimp left. Most of the 15 I bought are dead. I think I have four left now. I am talking to Aquatic Arts again, because when I addressed the delivery date descrepancy initially, they did say they would offer to replace some of the shrimps/snails. They were very nice about it. I did spend about $100 for 15 shrimps and five snails. Still, I will be ordering from them again. They are a quality vendor.

My snails loved the pellets but my blue crawfish did not and refused to eat them.

Edit February 2021: I've had to stop feeding this to my fish because they developed swim bladder disease shortly after I received my fourth and final shipment of this food. The fish were constipated and would recover after a three day fast, only to become ill again when feeding resumed. I have since switched the food to frozen spirulina and blood worms and they have fully recovered. Not sure if there is a new formula, but the packaging has changed. (That is a positive.)Edit November 2020: I've ordered another round of food and the container is a much improved screw top. Also, fish are still doing well on 5 years of this food and this food alone. Kudos, Aquatic Arts!I have been feeding my goldfish these pellets exclusively for the past three years. The "feeder" goldfish have grown to be bigger than my hand seem to be doing well. I have a loach in the tank as well, and I never see him eating, but he's still alive three years later so I know he's getting all the nutrition he needs!I'm just now ordering my third batch of food so it takes my fish about a year and a half to go through one container. Very reasonable for that price.