Feeding Frozen

[wtrujillo]

I only feed my fish frozen food. I was wondering how some of you feed frozen food to you fish? I've read different means of thawing the frozen food (thawing in the refrig., thawing with cold water, drain the packaging water before feeding).

I just take the food out of the freezer, soak it in Zoe, and then into the tank it goes. So far so good. But if there's a better way to I'd like to know.

[Jenn]

I do it exactly the same way and I also sometimes just break off a frozen chunk and hold it in the tank while they eat from my hands. Hope this isn't a no-no.

[Instar]

I thaw it in different ways or hold a frozen chunk in the tank too. Hand feeding is fun, isn't it? Haven't bothered to drain the juices after thawing. There's not much if anything to drain in the foods I use. Very rarely use zoe, selcon, vitamins or any other soak/additives on fish that have been here for a long time but they get fresh live mussels from time to time instead. The exception is in the case of some new arrivals and then they get the live stuff and vitamins/selcon.

[CD]

I have a tiny little cup that I use to scoop tank water into, then I put the cube of mysis in...on top of that, I will sprinkle two different types of flake (meaty/veggie). Once the frozen has thawed, I use a turkey baster to squirt this mixture slowly into the tank...that way, the fish have time to eat what I'm squirting in there so I don't get hardly any waste by food falling to the bottom or getting lost in the rockwork. I generally like to feed the skunk shrimps by hand though...so cute! ;)

Wendy

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I scoop tank water or RO/Di water into a cup, add various vitamins, add frozen food, and use a turkey baster to squirt it in. I also add seaweed to the mix.

The excess fluid is suppose to be a excess source of nutrients (which is suppose to be bad). I figure it feeds the corals and clams.