Hikari Spirulina Brine Shrimp

[mfinn]

Frozen Hikari Spirulina Brine Shrimp, who uses it?
Is there really any benefit to Herbivorous fishes ?

I know when I rinse it, there isn't alot of green left.

 

[RealReef7]

For the first 6 months my regal angel only ate spirulina brine, until one day it discovered clams. I now mainly use spirulina brine to entice the appetite on new or finicky fish. Probably not the most nutritious food you can feed your fish however fish love it, I feed it in my DT as a treat and all my fish eat it.

 

[JustinM]

I feed a cube of spirulina brine mixed with PE Mysis everyday. I also use live brine and live black worms among a few other snacks in between.

I don’t think there are any real benefits to the spirulina though. I’m pretty sure it’s just brine shrimp in a spirulina soup or something. My fish like it though and they appear to me as very healthy.

 

[Dmorty217]

Brine shrimp is void of most nutrients but the spirulina is beneficial to fish. You can buy spirulina powder and mix it in with mysis and other frozen foods, thats what I do.

 

[Smokey Stover]

Would a binder like Focus help the powder form stick to frozen Mysis/Brine?

 

[Dmorty217]

Would a binder like Focus help the powder form stick to frozen Mysis/Brine?

I would think it couldn't hurt. I purchased 2lbs of the spirulina powder, and when I feed the mysis and homemade frozen I use is visibly green so I know the fish are ingesting it.

 

[mfinn]

This is from the Hikari website;

Enhanced With Multi-Vitamins Pure-Cultured Spirulina

Gut-loaded with bio-encapsulated vitamins and minerals
Gut-loaded with pure-cultured spirulina

 

[ca1ore]

All I know is that my Achilles Tang ate ONLY hikari spirulina brine for the first four months I had it and observably fattened up (though to be fair, it ate a LOT of it :lol. Along with nutrama ova, it's my irresistible-to-finicky-fish food choice.

 

[alton]

I had a chevron tang back in the early 2000's that developed hole in the head. The tank he was kept in was spotless, I tried sheets of algae but he would never touch it. I ended up borrowing him to my LFS to place in there coral tank that had an algae issue. In eight months the tank was clean, and the hole in the head was gone. I took him home along with a new product the LFS started carrying, yep you guessed it Spirulina Brine. The hole in the head never came back and I have been a true believer ever since. However you get your fish to eat it, Spirulina is a must.

 

[scooter31707]

I use it, but not on a regular basis. I usually mix it in with Jimbos Gumbo once a week. I usually just give my fish OSI Spirulina flakes twice a week on top of the daily feeding of NLS.