Using Naturose Astaxanthan Powder in homemade food?

[twistedfinn967]

I'm going to make another batch of food for my jd's and sev's. The last mix consisted of raw shrimp, green peas, carrots, and 100% pure spirulina flake with some garlic guard for a little added flavor. I then freeze it and cut it into squares. They love it.

This time around I was gonna try adding knox blox (gelatain) to hold it all together better, it gets a kinda messy as it is now. I was also thinking of adding [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Naturose Astaxanthan Powder from Ken's Fish. Here is the description on the website:

[/FONT][FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Naturose Astaxanthan Powder:
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]NatuRose(tm) is a natural source of astaxanthin, derived from a unique strain of the microalgae Haematococcus pluvialis. The majority of the NatuRose carotenoid fraction is astaxanthin, with about 15% of the remaining fraction consisting of canthaxanthin, lutein and beta-carotene. This highly concentrated form of natural astaxanthin has been carefully formulated into a fine, free flowing dark red powder and is an essential nutritional requirement for shrimp maturation and larviculture.
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[FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Mix this with your flake and pellet food at the rate of 1 part Nuturose to 500 parts feed. This will increase the platability and digestion of your food. Within 1-2 weeks you will see a large difference in the health and color of your fish because of the high amounts of Astaxanthan. [/FONT]


So, has anyone else tried this stuff? And what about the mix rate of 1 part to 500 part? IF I was making 4 gallons of food that would be only 1 oz. of the astaxanthan. I'm not even close to that kind of quantity.

Any ideas or opinions?

TIA

 

[packer43064]

I used it before, I didn't use it that long. 2 weeks at the most then just didn't feel like soaking foods in the naturose.

I would just throw some into a plastic container with water, mix it well then soak the pellets/shrimp or whatever for a bit then feed the fish. I did this almost everyday for 2 weeks, way over the 1/500 rate. Fish lived, lol.