GlasGarten ShrimpFit

Supplementary feed for ornamental shrimps.

ShrimpFit from GlasGarten is a special feed and immune booster for rapid activation of the immune system. ShrimpFit improves the immune system and provides your shrimp with nutritionally important active ingredients such as beta-glucans, mannan-oligosaccharides, minerals and chitin.

Shrimp have only an innate, so-called primitive immune system. This means it cannot "learn" over time and must defend itself against the same "attackers" over and over again. So once an infection with a particular enemy is over, it can attack again, the shrimp's immune system does not recognize it and the fight starts all over again.

However, the most common cases of bacterial infections in shrimp in aquariums are caused by non-patogenic bacteria, meaning they are not disease-causing bacteria, but normal bacteria that live in every aquarium and every living thing. Unfortunately, even these can quickly lead to a problem, namely when the immune system is weakened and/or not quickly active. A sleepy "sentry" or a sluggish "fighting force" can be decisive in a fight.

So if you e.g. put new shrimps/snails/fish into an aquarium, in which there are already shrimps, then often no "diseases" are transferred, but simply normal bacterial strains, which may however be unknown to the shrimps already living in the aquarium. Thus, the new bacteria can quickly colonize the shrimp, multiply rapidly and if the immune system is not fit us fast enough, unfortunately, often lead to deaths.

In short, without an immune system a shrimp is just a piece of meat that wants to be decomposed by bacteria. The immune system alone prevents this, which is why it is so important to strengthen the shrimp's immune system so that it can fight back optimally and keep the shrimp healthy. That alone is its job, to be faster and stronger than opponents can spread. ShrimpFit supports it in this task, the ingredients act as an immune booster in several ways.

Advantages of GlasGarten ShrimpFit

• High binding power and inactivation of toxins (poisons)
• Activation and multiplication of defense macrophages
• Formation of a protective film on the intestinal mucosa

Betaglucan

Beta-1,3-1,6-glucans are structures that are recognized by the immune system as quasi-pathogens. Without being a pathogen, they trigger immune activation but do not cause disease symptoms. The immune system is thus made fit.

Beta-glucans are recognized by phagocytes (macrophages) via special receptors and are immediately absorbed. In this way, the macrophages activate the formation of further cells for the immune defense, which then effectively protect the body against new pathogens in the blood and lymphatic system and can reduce the reaction time for a defense.

As soluble dietary fiber in the yeast hydrolysate used, the beta-glucans are fermented by the intestinal flora into short-chain fatty acids such as acetate, butyrate and propionate. Short-chain fatty acids are important regulators for a healthy metabolism, butyrate is the most important energy supplier for the intestinal mucosa cells and has an anti-inflammatory effect.

Mannan-oligosaccharides

Mannan-oligosaccharides, through their prebiotic effect, promote probiotic bacteria in animals and a positive composition of the intestinal flora.

Minerals and chitin

The contained minerals and chitin support the build-up of the exoskeleton and counteract moulting problems. Each moult is a great effort for the shrimp organism and especially during this time, when all forces are concentrated on the moult, the shrimp is weakened and easily attacked. Unnecessarily long molting periods put the shrimp in additional stress, which lowers the immune defenses, so it is so important that molting proceeds smoothly and quickly.