Newb feeding question

[Hotrod32487]

So these frozen mysis shrimp cubes are great. When i first bought them, no one told me not to put the whole cube in and still havent (i guess thats just common sense) My question is, what are the great ingenius ideas yall have come up with for feeding just one or two fish (clownfish) from a frozen cube?

[tony]

while frozen i just take a sharp knife and cut the cube into smaller sizes (probly around eighths or so im guessing)

[GaryP]

I melt several cubes and other foods in a jelly jar with seawater. The jar gets stored in the fridge between feedings. This is enough food for 3-4 days. In my case I am feeding 2 well stocked larger tanks but the same thing can apply to you. When I get ready to feed, I filter the food through a brine shrimp net. There is a lot of excess nutrients in the water that does you no good. It just jacks up the dissolved organics. By filtering, you are just adding the edible nutrients in the food to the tank and not the nutrients in the water from the cubes.

[Hotrod32487]

Never thought of the fridge... How long you think they could stay in the fridge? Would turkey baster work good to get them out of the jar you think?

[GaryP]

You can probably drain some of the water out with a turkey baster. Depending on the size of the mysids, they tend to plug up in the tip though. Turkey basters work good for target feeding smaller stuff like brine. Just get a brine net at the LFS. They are cheap.

I try to use up a batch of food within 3 days. I also add some selcon or zoecon to the water so that the food can soak it up. The excess in the water just goes through the net.