Trace minerals are important for healthy shrimp and are critical for optimal growth and performance. The amounts needed per day are measured in milligrams—or less—but are essential to sustain life, fight disease, and promote growth, development, and healthy reproduction in shrimp.
Despite the importance of trace minerals, they are often supplemented in an inorganic form, bound to sulfate or oxide. However, inorganic trace minerals are easily separated in the gut allowing for the formation of insoluble complexes with other free metals or other dietary components. This results in unabsorbed minerals being excreted in the feces, potentially contaminating the environment.
The key components in E.C.O.Trace® Shrimp are E.C.O.Trace® glycine chelates—trace minerals organically bound to the amino acid glycine, also commonly known as glycinates. Organic trace elements have greater binding strength and are better protected from antagonistic effects in the gut. The result is that more trace minerals are better absorbed and metabolized, with a direct impact on animal health and productivity.
E.C.O.Trace® Shrimp’s highly effective trace elements reduce heavy metal contamination of water and soil, enhance protection against pond eutrophication, increase disease resistance, decrease antagonism with other minerals, and improve overall aquatic health.
Trace minerals are only a small part of the total feed—but it makes all the difference! Trace elements can only provide nutritional value if they are absorbed. E.C.O.Trace® Shrimp has been successfully used in high-performance animal feeds with proven superior absorption over inorganic trace minerals. E.C.O.Trace® Shrimp glycine-chelates are an easy choice!
