Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) is essential for the normal growth, health and reproduction in shrimps and fish. Most aquatic animals such as fish and shrimp have lost the ability to synthesize Vitamin C and some other species have limited biosynthesis which cannot meet the requirements.
In either of these cases Vitamin C has to be supplied through feed. In shrimps deficiency of Vitamin C leads to black or white lessons under the exoskeleton, soft shell, inactivity, opaque whitish muscle, incomplete moulting loss of feed intake and mortality. Conventional Vitamin C is extremely oxidisable and will be altered into other forms which are not available to animals during manufacture storage and transfer. Hence, a stabilized form of Vitamin C is essential to deliver the right amount of Vitamins to the shrimp. Prawn-C meets the most stringent conditions that exist in practical aquaculture.
Ascorbyl Polyphosphate with attractants and carriers.