Very, very dumb question.

[fishfanatic2]

How do you feed these frozen foods? 8O

Yes, I know it's dumb, but how do you do it? I was thinking that the best way would be to thaw it out and rinse it in a cup of tankwater, then feed it. Am I right or an idiot? Thanks!

 

[Chucker]

That's just fine. Toss it in a cup of tank water, let it thaw, then dump it in. Simple as that. Matter of fact, I think you'll find that's what most folks do.

 

[fishfanatic2]

I am saved from idiocy...

Thanks!

 

[Anonymous]

I tend to mash it up in my hands while holding it in the tank.

 

[mooner]

You can only go wrong by feeding a chunk of frozen directly to your fish. You don't wanna do that. I am not sure what could happen if you did but most sources frown on it.

I use the same method you described with the tank water in a cup, swirl a while and then dump.

Oh, and didn't you know...there are no dumb questions :wink:

 

[Expos Forever]

I've just started recently rinsing my food with RO/DI or tank water and straining it to avoid putting the cloudy liquid the food is packed in (and tiny pieces that will not get immediately eaten) in my tank. I figure the less junk (phosphates,etc...) I add the more real food I can feed.

 

[Anonymous]

I put it on a small plate, but a few drops of Selcon(tm) on it, then use a small knife to chop it up into a small mush. I then dip the plate into the tank, in the stream of a powerhead.

 

[One_Divided]

I put it in a net and rinse it.. 3 good reasons for doing it.. 1- cleans out some of the oils and nitrates you don't want. 2- thaws it 3- trains your fish that the net is a fun place to swim in to! :lol:

 

[fungia]

i switch from flakes to frozen and my fish love it. i thaw it without water and add some selcon to it while it is melting, it seems more of the selcon gets absorbed that way.

 

[mountainbiker619]

I just throw in the cube..my big wrasses make no haste in making a mess of it. But it is fun to watch the battle between the 9 wrasses and 2 eels fighting over the cubes of food.

 

[Anonymous]

Mooner, :!:
Your post is a bit strange, not to mention incorrect. Not only that, you are oddly confident in the merits of your false info. 8O Just what do you think will happen by feeding the food directly to the fish? I've been keeping fish for the better part of 20 years, and I've yet to see or hear about a problem. It depends on WHAT you are feeding! Some fish like angels do well at picking apart the frozen chunk if it's secured with something. Other fish are so large that they just gulp it down whole. In other situations, depending on what fish are kept, it's best to disolve the frozen food first. Letting a whole chuck of frozen food drift around a reef tank also benefits microinvert populations - as is evidenced by my 2 year old, fat and healthy mandarin. It's not the thing to do every time, in every system, but there is a place for it.
Please refrain from making "I'm not sure why it's wrong, but it is" kind of posts. :roll:

Regards
Jim

 

[mooner]

Slow down there, Big Fella :lol:

JimM

I have always heard that direct feeding of blocks of frozen foods is not the "preferred method". Now, having said that, I had Oscars back in my freshwater days and fed them everything including frozen foods with great results. I know that there are at least two paths to follow to a successful ending.

My concern was the temperature of the food should a large feeder take it in at once and the additional nitrates and "gunk" that might be added in with the surrounding "ice" that your food is suspended in fresh from the bag. Remember we are discussing foods in general not just your perfect world production food. But, like I said there are multiple viewpoints.

Bottom line: Can there be problems with chunking in a large chunk of frozen? Yes. Can there be problems with melting it first? No.

Anyway, have a good one JimM

 

[Anonymous]

I see what you are saying, but in reality there is very little cause for concern. If you are using very old or poorly kept food with a think layer of ice on it, then getting rid of this first would be a good thing to do!
Again, it just depends on what you are keeping.

Cheers
Jim

 

[t gallo]

i take two cubes of frozen food, put them in a dish and let them melt for about 15 minutes, them squeeze all the jiuce's out of it and mix it all together and throw small piece's into the flow and watch who eat's what, i do that about 4 or five times and thats it, i dont like over feeding.

 

[Micky]

Just a pinch betwwen the cheek and gum....... 8)

 

[fishfanatic2]

Thanks everyone!

The reason I can't just throw in the cube is that I don't have a very lsrge fish population,so I can only feed 1/2 to 3/4 of the cube without overfeeding. The rest I feed to the freshwater fish.

 

[Anonymous]

Personally I use an old prescription plastic bottle, which is just barely larger than the frozen food chunks. Then I go to the tank, fill the bottle with water and swirl it around until it's all melted, and then slowly pour it in. I usually put about half in, then use a water dropper to suck up some meat and feed my bubble tip anemone. (Which rolls up and sucks it down)

I will spot feed my peppermint shrimp occasionally too, since he usually waits until dark to come out of the section of rock he lives in.

 

[FishyMarty]

I take one of each kind of frozen food cubes I have at the time (usually 6 or so different food types) and put them into a shot glass, I add a squirt of vitamin supplement, and a dash of juice from the jar of chopped garlic in the fridge, and then I put the shot glass into the refrigerator to defrost. The next day I will mash everything together in the shot glass, and sometimes add some flake food if the mixture in the shot glass it runny, and then I feed the fish for a week with the nutritious/tasty/stinky contents of the shot glass. The fish totally love this, and I really think the garlic has kept my purple tang ick free. That's my 2 cents worth...
Regards,
Marty

 

[Anonymous]

I thaw first in a cup of tank water and then pour the whole thing into my reef tanks. If I fell like it I will suck the mixture up into a turkey baster and blow it at the corals to make sure they get some.

 

[johns120]

You can only go wrong by feeding a chunk of frozen directly to your fish. You don't wanna do that. I am not sure what could happen if you did

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