Dried Shrimp for Turtles, Fish & Inverts 100g

100% natural sun-dried shrimp, a high-protein treat that isopods, millipedes, and cockroaches go absolutely mad for.

Dried shrimp are one of the richest protein foods you can offer an invert colony, at up to 62% crude protein. Because they are whole, the shells come too, and a shrimp's shell is chitin hardened with calcium.

Why Dried Shrimp?

• Up to 62% crude protein: one of the highest protein foods you can offer your colony
• 100% natural: whole shrimp, sun-dried, with nothing added
• Whole shells: chitin and calcium arrive with the protein
• A firm favourite across all species: your inverts will swarm these

How to Use

Drop a few dried shrimp into your enclosure. Your inverts will find them quickly and gather around to feed. They can be offered whole or broken into smaller pieces for smaller species or mancae. Remove any uneaten shrimp after a couple of days. Best used as a protein supplement alongside leaf litter, calcium sources, flakes, vegetables, and other foods as part of a varied diet.

A high-value protein treat for isopods, millipedes, and cockroaches. Keepers of land hermit crabs use them as well, and our guide to what hermit crabs eat suggests rotating them with fish and insects across the week. Vampire crabs take them too, broken into small pieces, as our guide to what vampire crabs eat explains. Browse our full accessories collection for the leaf litter, calcium, and other foods that make up a varied diet.

Our guide to feeding shrimp to your isopods goes deeper on frequency by species and on the calcium in the shells.

For Turtles, Terrapins and Fish

Whole dried shrimp are one of the classic treats for aquatic turtles and terrapins, and most take them eagerly. They're a treat rather than a diet, so keep a turtle pellet as the staple and offer shrimp on top. Larger aquarium and pond fish, cichlids and koi among them, take them too. Our guide to what goldfish eat lists dried shrimp among the warm-weather treats for koi and other large pond fish, and keeps goldfish to smaller extras. We sell these as animal food, not for the kitchen, and not for chickens or other poultry, where UK feed rules restrict animal protein. More foods for turtles, fish and reptiles are on foods for reptiles, turtles and fish.

Nutritional Analysis

Crude protein up to 62% | Crude fat 4.5% | Crude fibre 4.7%

Size

100g of whole shrimp. You are dropping in only a few at a time, fewer still when they are broken up for smaller species, so the bag runs to a long stretch of protein feeds.