AquaShrimp Powder is a mineral soil designed to facilitate the spawning of shrimps.
AquaShrimp Powder Informations
- Enriched soil especially designed for shrimp
- The powder texture of AquaShrimp Powder will allow shrimp to lay juvenile shrimp and keep them at the surface of the substrate.
- AquaShrimp Powder is porous enough to allow nitrifying bacteria to properly colonize the substrate and improve water quality
- High temperature treatment (around 1200°C; 2192°F) gives its physical properties and allows it to be free of parasitic species which could contaminate the aquarium
- AquaShrimp Powder is tested by an independent laboratory (microbiological, chemical, and radioactive tests)
How to use AquaShrimp Powder?
- A bag is packaged in 3 liters / 3kg corresponding to a thickness of 5 cm for a 20 liter aquarium.
- Using 150g (5.29 Oz.) of soil per liter (0.25 Gal) will grant the aquarium the best soil quantity needed.
Analysis of AquaShrimp Powder
| Wanted pathogens | Analysis method | Results |
| Salmonella | NF EN ISO 6579 | None |
| Listeria monocytogenes | NF EN ISO 11290-1 | None |
| Helminthes (viable eggs) | Internal method | None |
| Enterovirus | Internal method | None |
| Wanted metals | Results |
| Manganese total with MnO |
475 mg/kg dry mater 0.20 % of total weight |
| Fer total with Fe2O3 |
27 457 mg/kg dry mater 8.60 % of total weight |
| Calcium total with CaO |
8 845 mg/kg dry mater 4.20 % of total weight |
| Potassium total with K2O |
61 561 mg/kg dry mater 18.0% of total weight |
| Aluminium total with Al2O3 |
61 561 mg/kg dry mater 18.0% of total weight |
| Magnesium total with MgO |
1 718 mg/kg dry mater 2.80 % of total weight |
| Phosphorus total with P2O5 |
818 mg/kg dry mater 0.30 % of total weight |
| Silicium total (internal dosage) with SiO2 |
74 600 mg/kg dry mater 46.6 % of total weight |
| Wanted radionucleides | Analytic method | Results |
| Cesium 134 | Adapted method from MO 1.2 CEA GT21 1982 | < 7 - None |
| Cesium 137 | Adapted method from MO 1.2 CEA GT21 1982 | < 7 - None |
| Iodine 131 | Adapted method from MO 1.2 CEA GT21 1982 | < 7 - None |
| Wanted molecules | Analytic method | Results |
| PAHs (16 molecules) | NF X 33-012 | < 0.150 mg/kg dry mater |
| Nitrogen pesticides (5 molecules) | Internal methods | < 50 µg/kg dry mater |
| Organophosphorus pesticides (15 molecules) | Internal methods | < 50 µg/kg dry mater |
| Organophosphorus pesticides (9 molecules) | Internal methods | < 50 µg/kg dry mater |
| Polychlorinated biphenyls (7 PCB) | NF X 33-012 | < 0.02 mg/kg dry mater |