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View Poll Results: Do you rinse frozen food? | |||
Yes with tap water | 25 | 39.68% | |
Yes with RO/DI water | 17 | 26.98% | |
No the cloudy stuff feeds my corals | 21 | 33.33% | |
Voters: 63. You may not vote on this poll |
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Rinse frozen food or not?
Just wondering how many people rinse frozen food.
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#2
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I always rinse in a small bowl with tap water (or RO/DI if i'm not lazy) until all the cloudiness goes away. Not sure if there is any benefit to either way, but I like to see less cloudiness in my aquarium after feeding.
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But the cloudy stuff is all the fine particles that feed corals
But it's probably packed with phosphates |
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I cant vote cuz I make all my own food which is way chaeper and more nutritious than that store bought stuff. I'm convinced that "that cloudy stuff" is pretty much all phosphates. I do use PE Mysis in my recipe and it is rinsed extensively before added.
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Quote:
Exactly my thoughts.
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I thaw my frozen food in a cup of tank water, drain, then feed the fish. I don't "rinse" it. I see too much fleshy stuff going down the drain as it is. Mysis and Phytoplankton. was told the PP didn't need rinsing, thaw and feed.
I get phosphate issues feeding pellets. Stop pellets, cyano goes away. Feed pellets exclusively for a week or more, cyano comes back.
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I use PE mysis and I rinse it in tapwater through a metal strainer before I feed it to my fish.
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Same, but plastic strainer. My corals eat light!
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My friend tested his PE mysis before rinsing and said it had phosphates. We've been draining/straining the melt water (at least) ever since. When I'm not lazy I rinse through a fine mesh net using tap water.
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