HikariTropical Shrimp Cuisine Fish Food, 0.35 oz (10g)

This stuff is the best! It’s probably the highest quality shrimp food, they absolutely go crazy for it. It has great ingredients and this is a very good company.

My freshwater shrimp love this food! I have used it for 3 to 4 years.

Everyone fights each other for these. The shrimp, snails, and fish all flock over like little vultures to scarf up the pellets. They even smell good to me! The bag looks small but it’s a fair amount of food. Tastes great! Yummy.

I have bought different shrimp foods in the past from sera, fluval, and others. These are the only pellets my shrimp swarm to. I will keep buying these pellets for my shrimp.

Unfortunately it didn't seem like my shrimp were much interested in it in the brief time I used it, but there were other factors in play - so who's to say why. I've heard good things about the brand and I'm holding onto it for the next shrimp tank.

All fourteen of my shrimp come out for these. I feed them alongside a different type (pellets) and these by far are more popular. My shrimp have also deepened in color and look prettier.

1. Is copper in large quantities dangerous for shrimp? Most definitely. Is a trace amount of copper safe for shrimp? Absolutely. Shrimp blood is copper-based unlike human blood. Consequently, they actually can benefit from a very small amount of it. Hikari is very well regarded for their high quality food so of course they're not going to put dangerous amounts of copper in these pellets. I wish people would stop disparaging them for this reason.2. It is a great idea to use a feeding dish in a shrimp tank. When I place food in that dish, I use a piece of tubing to direct it into the dish. After the food disintegrates and it's uneaten, you can suck it out with a turkey baster, thus preventing fouling up the tank by having the food fall down under the gravel. Any small dish will do. No need to spend a lot of money. The shrimp will learn to come to the dish very quickly.In conclusion, I believe this is a very high quality food and my shrimp can't get enough of it.

I've never seen all my shrimp come out to eat at once - so that's definitely a plus. I've tried the Hikari Crab Cuisine (for crustaceans), a few would eat it, but majority ignored it... and it's the same thing with Shirakura shrimp food... one or two will eat it, the rest thumb their noses at it. Guess they are not very hungry, so they must find a lot to eat in the tank. This Hikari Shrimp Cuisine is a big hit, though, with my red cherry shrimp. Apparently my shrimp are not jerks, like those of one reviewer... mine eat their food in the bowl and don't carry it off... :) ... so that the pellets are super tiny isn't a problem, they stay put in the bowl. What I do to get it in their bowl at the bottom of tank is to round hollow plastic tube that's about a 1/2' in diameter and insert this into the tank and down to the bowl. Then I take a little funnel that fits snugly the other end of the tube and I sprinkle some of the tiny pellets into the funnel. With a few taps of the tube on the bottom of the bowl, the pellets quickly sink down into the bowl. They sink a lot better than the Hikari Crab Cuisine pellets, which are MUCH bigger. I've noticed that they like to hang around in the area surrounding the bowl after they are done eating... they normally hide a lot in the plants, but they seem to be not hiding as much. Not sure why, maybe they are trying to say thank you for the Hikari Shrimp Cuisine, lol...