Shrimp help!

**Whoopydoo** · 07-18-2012, 03:30 AM

Ok well I got red cherry shrimp and I also got a planted tank and I wanted to add aquarium plant food but it has copper in it and i don't know if it will kill the shrimps. So what I'm trying to say is, would the copper kill my shrimps???

**Brhino** · 07-18-2012, 05:01 AM

what is it exactly? A lot of forms of copper are not hazardous to shrimp - most fish foods have trace amount of a copper compound and shrimp gobble it up. Tell us what it is, though. Or... google "is (name of what you're using) shrimp safe" and I bet the question has already been asked and answered in several places on the internet.

**Whoopydoo** · 07-18-2012, 06:43 AM

Well in the plant food it just said it has copper and only has 0.14% percent of copper

**Brhino** · 07-18-2012, 01:31 PM

what IS the plant food?

Is it "Bob's Organic Plant Formula #47", or what?

**Whoopydoo** · 07-18-2012, 03:58 PM

Well it's aqueon plant food(liquid ferts)that provides macro and micro nutrients required by freshwater plants.

**Goes to 11!** · 07-18-2012, 04:22 PM

This stuff:
http://www.aqueonproducts.com/produc...plant-food.htm

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Maybe I am blind but... I am just not seeing the copper that is your cause for concern listed in the ingredients.

?

**Whoopydoo** · 07-18-2012, 06:21 PM

Yah on the bottle on the side where it shows the directions on how to use, you go all the way down where it says keep away from children and underneath that it say "information concerning the levels of metals in the product is at the Internet at:" www.aapfco.org/metals.html and it redirected me and I had to go through it but when I finally found the product I looked at the ingredients and it says it has 0.14% of copper

**Goes to 11!** · 07-18-2012, 06:26 PM

I don't use that product but I would Google it with "shrimp safe" and someone will have something on the net about it IF it is an issue.

There may also be a landslide of "It is not an issue..." but either way you will know the general consensus.