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A lot of people rinse (or at least strain) frozen foods to do exactly what you said. Remove excess nutrients. The only negative I can come up with is actually a result of the positive (reduction in nutrients), when you rinse the food you're removing a lot of the smaller particles that could be utilized as food by coral and smaller inverts.Who here washes or rinses their food before feeding to eliminate excess nutrients? Has anyone seen any perceived positives or negatives? Curious. Thanks.
The rinsing makes sense to me if you're using foods that have a preservative of some kind. This is at least somewhat likely with frozen seafood intended for human consumption. And I think that's where the idea originated....otherwise I'm with Ty and it makes no sense....rinsing whole-frozen or processed foods that have no additives is just coral food going down the drain. If you rinse LRS, you're losing at least some of the probiotics you paid for. I do rinse the solution off of @Reef Nutrition ROE since I lose no food value in that case.....I have no idea how the shipping solution breaks down in the tank nutrient-wise, although it's technically harmless. So I know I don't need to rinse ROE, but is rinsing it a "good idea" even in a small way?
Put it another way...
If the difference between algae-bloom and no-algae-bloom in your tank is whether you rinse your food, then you very well may have bigger questions to ask besides whether rinsing your food matters.