Do you wash your frozen snacks?

[btkrausen]

I rinse my PE mysis, as it always seems like there is alot of stuff I dont want to dump in my tank. I use a small metal strainer that I got from Bed bath and beyond. It only cost a couple of bucks

Thats exactly what I use right now, I stick it in the 1/2 cup measuring cup to thaw.

 

[dnov99]

I just thaw a chunk of pe mysis in a specimen cup, dump it in the strainer over the sink and rinse it with cold tap water. Quick and easy. :bigsmile:

 

[SDguy]

Do you buy them fresh or frozen cooked or uncooked?

I think they are usually prefrozen anyway, but yeah, I freeze them all when I buy them, even fresh items like clams or, rarely, mussels.

 

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[Reefing8EZ]

I put all my frozen foods in a fine fish net and rinse by running ro/di ( used to use tap) until thawed and clean of any phosphates. Pour it in a shot glass, add some tank water, turn down the ecotechs, and squirt food in using a baster..

 

[markak]

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[ToXIc]

i guess i should start straining..

i just plop the cubes into the tank.. one thing i probably dont have to thaw is the RDF

 

[DBarsotti]

I buy a 16oz each of flat frozen mysis & brine. Put both together in a strianer, and put the strainer in a bowl and let it thaw and drain. After all thawed, dump out the water and put both mysis and brine in the bowl and add vitimans, and dry coral grow, mix together. Then I put into ice cube trays and freeze. When frozen, I take out of the ice trays, and cut the cubes in half,(because the cubes are to much to use at one feeding). I have a cone feeder in the DT and I drop the frozen cube into it, and as it thaws and falls out slowly and the fish wait for it and eat it. Hardly any is wasted. I feed half a cube in the morning and half a cube at nite. They get flake food in the afternoon. I do the making of this fish food once a month.

This is gold. I am going to start doing this.

Just now before work, I rinsed the frozen, definitely doesn't take too long but i could see pre-washing and freezing being WAY more time efficient.

What sort of vitamins are you adding to this mix??

 

[DBarsotti]

also, are you adding any tank water/RO to make these cubes actual cubes or just the meaty goodies?

 

[markak]

After rinsing I add a few squirts of Kent Zoe, & H2O Life brand of V3 & GVH.

 

[markak]

DBarsotti .....No extra water all meat.

 

[fraggingfish]

I use those cubes and some other home made mixtures.
I soak them in the containers for a few minutes, so all the debris fall off.
Using a fine mesh net, I dump everything in there, roll up the chunk of food in my hands and just feed away.
Looking back into the waste water, I'm glad none of it is going to be in my tank.

 

[Zombie]

All the goo is coral food. I just let the frozen cubes float in the tank and the fish chase them around till they melt. Gives them something to do.

 

[btkrausen]

All the goo is coral food.

All the goo is actually putting phosphates into your tank :)

 

[Zombie]

Yea I tried to add that it could be a problem if you feed a lot but your skimmer should be able to pull out what isn't eaten if you feed a cube or two a day.

 

[Zombie]

I actually use to melt the cubes in a container and target feed my corals with the cloudy water in the cup once a week without a problem.

 

[btkrausen]

Yea I tried to add that it could be a problem if you feed a lot but your skimmer should be able to pull out what isn't eaten if you feed a cube or two a day.

Where I agree...the only problem I see with that statement is that most food, if not rinsed, will cause a skimmer to lose its foam head. I know anytime I feed Mysis without rinsing I lose it....therefore its not pulling it out immediately...giving it a chance to get absorbed or rest somewhere in the tank.

 

[Zombie]

I think that no mater what happens to the left overs it will breakdown, be skimmed or assimilated.
But like anything, too much is not a good idea.

 

[DBarsotti]

I'm going to make my own rinsed, mixed cubes tonight:nerd:

 

[btkrausen]

I think that no mater what happens to the left overs it will breakdown, be skimmed or assimilated.
But like anything, too much is not a good idea.

Reefbuilders just confirmed my exact posts above :) Good read and possibly cool too for just what we're talking about.

Handmade strainer pot thaws and rinses frozen food in the same container