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I used to "rinse" my frozen foods so i could believe I was doing my best to keep phosphates out of the tank.
Then I read an article on it and they meaaured the reduction in phosphate from rinsing... it was 1%.
Now i literally toss cubes in from across the room.
what article?LowLi,
Please point us to that article if you have the reference. Do you know if other things were measured?
what article?
I typed the above message and thought I just let it sit in my computer while I was looking at other stuff. Didn't mean to post it until I did some further looking.
Anyhow after some more looking
https://www.google.com/search?q=rin...ome..69i57.18719j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I found some links to other threads and read a few.
Seems to me one camp (including Randy) says phosphate contribution of frozen food "juice" is trivial so not worth rinsing. Possibility of some good stuff lost while rinsing is raised.
A smaller camp (at least from my reading) are rinsers. Mike Paletta's opinion to rinse is alluded to, but I couldn't find a link to that article. I thought I read that in the past and it informed my previous decision to be a rinser.
My conclusion, at least for now, is I will stop rinsing and hope some of the good stuff in the "juice" will benefit the corals, CUC and microcritters.
The whole reason for starting this was to see if there was an easier way to add selcon to mysis every day... if I put the cube to thaw in water and then add selcon but my worry is that the food won't absorb as much because it will just stay in the water?
Any thoughts