• 1.2–1.4 mm micro disc pellet — small enough for shrimp of every age to grip and carry rather than fight over.
• Vegetable-forward recipe — dried seaweed meal, spirulina and alfalfa give herbivorous shrimp the plant matter they graze for.
• Astaxanthin included — helps keep reds and blues vivid and reduces colour fading over time.
• Dosed copper (min. 29 mg/kg) — shrimp biologically need copper for blood regeneration; this is a controlled dietary amount, not the harmful excess found in copper-based fish medications.
• 40% minimum crude protein — formulated to Hikari's published guaranteed analysis, with minerals to support clean, complete moults.

Full ingredient declaration, reproduced verbatim from Hikari USA's published statement for Shrimp Cuisine:

Fish meal, krill meal, wheat flour, flaked corn, dehydrated alfalfa meal, brewers dried yeast, wheat germ meal, dried seaweed meal, cuttlefish meal, fish oil, alfalfa nutrient concentrate dehydrated, spirulina, chitosan, kale meal, DL-methionine, astaxanthin, garlic, choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (stabilised vitamin C), inositol, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, vitamin A supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, niacin, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement, biotin, calcium carbonate, ferrous sulphate, magnesium sulphate, zinc sulphate, manganese sulphate, copper sulphate, calcium iodate.

Guaranteed analysis

No formal allergen statement is published by Hikari for this product; the recipe is built on fish, shellfish (krill, cuttlefish) and wheat/corn ingredients. No artificial colours appear in the ingredient statement.

Feed several small amounts daily — only what your shrimp finish within a few minutes — and remove leftovers to protect water quality. Because the pellet is a complete daily diet, there's no need to alternate with other foods, though most keepers still like to offer occasional blanched vegetables or leaf litter for grazing variety.

Suitable for: all freshwater ornamental shrimp, including Caridina and Neocaridina species such as cherry shrimp, crystal shrimp and Amano shrimp.

Not suitable for: tanks where copper-sensitive invertebrates other than shrimp are kept alongside them — the dosed copper level is calibrated for shrimp, not for snails or other copper-sensitive tankmates.

Is the copper in this food dangerous to my shrimp?

No — shrimp require a small amount of dietary copper for blood (haemolymph) regeneration, and Hikari doses it at 29 mg/kg for exactly that purpose. This is a different situation to copper-based fish medications, which are dosed at levels that are toxic to invertebrates.

Will this cloud my water?

Not if you feed only what your shrimp clear in a few minutes and remove any leftovers. Overfeeding is the usual cause of cloudy water with any sinking food.

Can I feed this alongside fish in a community shrimp tank?

Yes, most community fish will happily eat any pellet they find before the shrimp do, so scatter feed in a few spots or feed after lights-out to give shy or juvenile shrimp a fair chance at it.

Works well alongside a calcium supplement for moulting shrimp, and with algae wafers or blanched vegetables as an occasional grazing supplement.

A shelf-stable dry good, not a perishable or livestock item, so no cold-chain handling is required and standard shipping applies. Check the use-by date on the pack on arrival — contact us if anything looks wrong and we'll sort it under your rights as an Australian consumer, in addition to any manufacturer guarantee.