"copper sulfate" in food - bad for shrimp?

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Caius

Caius

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Apr 13, 2007
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Hi,
After reading some threads on this forum, I for the first time read the ingredients on my fish food containers. Both the flake and pellet foods I have been using have copper sulfate as an ingredient, and there are ghost shrimp in one of my tanks. Some of the posts here say not to introduce copper to tanks with shrimp. Should I change food?

Caius
 
pixl8r

pixl8r

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May 11, 2007
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It's really up to you. Since cooper sulfate is very far down the list of ingredients, many people don't worry about it. On the other hand, if you ever use fertilizers (which most likely will kill shrimp) it'll just add to the copper content.

Personally, I don't feed my shrimp anything containing copper.

FYI, I know many people use rabbit food (pellet) as a cheap crawdad food. I've been trying it out on my shrimp (along with other foods) so far they seem to like it. It's cheap, and lasts a long time.
 
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