GlasGarten Bacter AE Micro Powder Water Additive for Shrimp Tanks CRS Bee Cherry (35g)

Shrimp and fry and snails go crazy for this stuff , be careful when you open it it's a very fine powder what ever you do don't sneeze or cough lol

Shrimp and snails think this is a delicacy! I noticed a marked increase in microfauna, algae, and everything shrimp and snails love after feeding this. Keeps my shrimplets happy too. Possibly easy to overfeed depending on the size of your tank. Love the design of the packaging in that the insert keeps the scoop from disappearing into the container. One container goes a long way too!

I'm looking forward to seeing if this convinces my shrimp there's enough food to breed!I read a lot of reviews for this product, and I figured out an easy way to get the product to move around the tank without clumping at all. I fill a shot glass with tank water, and add just a bit of the powder, then wait until it sinks in the glass. I stir it up with a pipette and use the pipette to squirt the pre-wetted powder into the areas I want it the most. The places I see the most vulnerable shrimp tend to hide in. It still moves all around the tank, but there's no clumping or filming issues that some people have reported. All in all, I'm very pleased! If there's anything else to report, I'll update this review.

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I was skeptical that this off-white powder was doing anything except making the water cloudy for a while. I dosed every other day for a week in a 35 liter tank. I used way less than the enclosed spoon would hold- just a minute amount that would fit on the tip of a popsicle stick.During the second week I was impressed. The shrimp seems more alive, swimming around the tank. Perhaps I saw more baby shrimp but I'm not certain at the moment. Note that this is not a food replacement- you still have to feed your shrimp. I believe is creates micro bacteria that the babies and even adults can snack on.

The media could not be loaded. BacterAE is good! I had a really hard time with neocaridina shrimp in my community tank because they wouldn’t eat supplemental food and are very sensitive in general. This food was my lifeline that kept them alive for months (I did miss feeding for 5 days and they did die). Unfortunately, I did have an algae bloom and notice hundreds of detritus worms while using BacterAE. Now that I’m not using it, they are gone and algae is low. It’s possible that I was overfeeding which caused the worms. I recommend that you learn exactly how to use this product before use if you don’t want detritus worms.

Great stuff, the directions are wrong though, only use a TINY bit like other reviewers are saying.

Love this stuff. Thought it was expensive, but worth it!