Crystal Red Shrimps' Food Compilation (From local fish shops)

[taygu]

I have tried a few type but it seems that my CRS prefer the flake for fish rather than the CRS food

[spinex]

[U][B]Mosura CRS Specialty Food



Personal Opinion: Overrated. Clouds water if the food is not finished by shrimps.

I'm interested how you evaluate Mosura to give the overated rating. Mosura is quite a popular crs food among hobbyist in SG and it seem among all those you listed only this particular product you list as overrated. Maybe you would like to share why and how it was overrated by you ? Base on price ? Base on your crs don't like to eat ? Base on the ingrident ..etc ?

Basic knowledge for hobbyist tell us that overfeeding of shrimp/fish is a big no no. Overfeeding mean it's not healthy for the shrimp/fish + leftover food will more or less affect the water quality. Not to mention shrimp are more sensitve to the quality of the water. By right food that are not finished should be scooped out of the water to prevent leftover food deteroriating the water.

[weiquan]

hi maybe i could share my exprience. Im feeding Mosura CRS Specialty Food to my tank of majority single and double hinos of about 30 pieces for almost 10 months and they are doing fine.

The food comes in long rectangle chucks and i feed 2 pieces of 2 cm rectangle bits which i break off from a long chuck everyday. Usually they finish the food or my zebra otos will attend to the remaining food. But still i see some leftovers before once in a while but i have to say that they do not affect the water quality that much and defeniately not cloud the water, maybe because of the low temperture achieved with a chiller and good filtration i have in the tank the food just stays as it is and not into powered form until its eaten up by my otos or CRS usually by the next day.

One thing to remember about using this Mosura CRS Specialty Food is that you cannot expose the food to air to frequently. The food will turn soft which makes it not fresh. What i do is i transfer a few big chunks into those black flim containers which is used to contain those old day kodak flims rolls and only open the main Mosura CRS Specialty Food container maybe once in a month to tranfer top up the old flim container (feeding container which i open everyday). This helps to ensure freshness!!

Overall i have faith in this product and maybe because it have not caused me any trouble yet so i'll stick to it. I started out with 6 pieces of double hinos which i now have around 30 pieces of different breeds .

I have heard that some other Shrimp food contains meaty content which might affect the colouration of CRS but its true that CRS loves meaty food.

My 2 cents.

with regards,
weiquan

[carlfsk]

Just bought a pack of Ebita Bento today. Dropped in a stab. But the CRS is not interested in it. It's just beside it, but the CRS choose to dig the soil.

Maybe they have not acquired fine dining taste...

[shrimpfantasy]

I have used Mosura CRS food before also, the first time i used it was when i bought shrimps from Silane's shrimp farm at pasir ris, i was given a free pack of Mosura CRS food. I find that Silane breed nice shrimps and if he is bringing in this food, it must be of some standard too.

[nasty12]

Thanks Chendol for his fair review on Mosura CRS Food. I supposed that you’ve used it for at least 10 months and that they bred at least 2 generations? Unlike Marle, who evaluated on food products base on what CRS like and dislikes to eat is a little over-exaggerating that some products may cloud water.

The food might be soft but it does not cloud the water. With the right amount fed (usually 2 hours), every shrimp, big or small get to eat and produces no or little waste. Broken bits are enjoyed by shrimplets and while big chucks is continued to be snatched away by adults, usually shrimplets have no chance to get close to it but they still can eat the loosened bits. Perhaps, soft food is a product feature, and I like it. Making food stay as a hard chunk in water for many days is not a big issues with todays' food processing technology.

I was at a shop in Thomson, he fed with so MUCH Mosura Food to his breeding tank of high grade CRS both containing the breeding pairs and their babies, Im very surprised that the water does not turn cloudy but I think is has to be credited to its plant formula. The breeding tanks has only 1 small waterfall filter not even canister filter.

Overall, I am happy with Mosura CRS Food which Im feeding my CRS, and Im looking towards its breeder food to be made available in Singapore.

I also want to highlight that the so called Crystal Red Shrimps' Food Compilation is misleading, Marle said



as Shirakura White Colour Enhancer / Baby Food. Why has he specify affection for Shirakura products to include a non-food item as food list and even claim that the white color enhancer with pH increasing property as baby food which the manufacturer has not claim. Why the food he liked, Shirukura has no product description but personal opinion while all other products has description?

Perhaps Marle would like to clarify? thanks

[EvolutionZ]

I have used Mosura CRS food before also, the first time i used it was when i bought shrimps from Silane's shrimp farm at pasir ris, i was given a free pack of Mosura CRS food. I find that Silane breed nice shrimps and if he is bringing in this food, it must be of some standard too.

i personally had used shirakura and mosura food for my past crs.. their respond towards mosura food was faster and better though..
anyway, if im not wrong Silane has not selling CRS at farm for 1 year,noticed that you just registered, you really bought from him ar?

[marle]

Hi guys,

i think there is a misunderstanding here. I have added my personal opinion only to those products i have used before and i am referring to those which has a "personal opinion: ... ".

As for the others, those arent my opinion, they are from this website.

http://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/inde...th=257_260_296

Its the same for the CRS white enhancer food.

http://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/inde...oducts_id=1053

[lorba]

Just bought a pack of Ebita Bento today. Dropped in a stab. But the CRS is not interested in it. It's just beside it, but the CRS choose to dig the soil.

Maybe they have not acquired fine dining taste...

They need adjustment to new food, sometime it will take a day or 2, or sometime, they just ignore the food complete. Each food has its days to be ignored by CRS, that's no alarming.

I suggest to starve the CRS for 2 days, then start feeding new food, chances that they will response to eat much better.

In a healthy tank, CRS is more ready to take new food.

CRS response better to meaty food, if they have been fed with meaty food, they may find it hard to make a switch to plant based food.
Shrimps usually do not response to prepared food in a large tank with small number of shrimp count, likely they prefer to eat alage and microorganism film.
Shrimps in new tank unlikely to take prepared food, especially plant based because of the presence of algae in the tank and they need to adapt to enviroment before eating.

[carlfsk]

Hey boss, no problem at all. I will give them all the time they need to accustom to the new food.

Mine is quite a large tank for these few guys. A 2ft cube for 12 shrimps...

[panda]

hello, newbie here !

can anyone tell me an online store in the US that sells any of these high quality foods??

thanks !!

[lorba]

For US, you can check out

http://www.shrimp-n-it.com
http://www.mypetshrimp.com

[panda]

For US, you can check out

http://www.shrimp-n-it.com
http://www.mypetshrimp.com

Thank you !!

[gemo82]

Hi, another newbie to shrimps here. Do other fish snatch on these shrimp food too? Where do I drop them in a densely planted tank where the shrimps hide among the plants most of the time? Are they able to "smell" the delicacy and come out of hiding for the food?