“FROZEN FOOD” to rinse or not ?

[Glenner’sreef]

Exactly what i was going to post. Have phosphate on a doser even.

I may even dose “free oils” hey there free??? Lol

 

[hart24601]

I may even dose “free oils” hey there free??? Lol

My skin makes so many free oils I dose them straight off my washcloth!

well I guess technically I paid for them with my diet so not quite free…. Boy this got complex!

 

[Wasabiroot]

I never do. In fact I prefer the smaller particulates enter the tank as they're more likely (theoretically) to be digested by my SPS and gorgonians.

If the argument is that the juice is harmful, I hardly think the actual frozen shrimp etc. that are sitting in it would be much safer, and that's obviously not true.

 

[Adolfo]

No rinse here too

 

[Miami Reef]

No rinsing.

 

[pecan2phat]

Rinse with RO spigot and strainer for the past 2 decades.

 

[Glenner’sreef]

My skin makes so many free oils I dose them straight off my washcloth!

well I guess technically I paid for them with my diet so not quite free…. Boy this got complex!

Hilarious!!!

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

I rinsed for a few months and saw no noticeable change in tank nutrients, and I would prefer the Gravy, made it to the coal as well.

 

[brmc1985]

Break off a frozen piece. Drop it in the tank. Whatever the inhabitants don’t or can’t eat gets picked up by my filtration system and protein skimmer. Rinsing is for the birds!

Thawing is for the birds! My CBB loves picking at the 2x2 piece of Rods food while it is frozen until it gets sucked into a powerhead and chummed all over.

 

[HB AL]

Feeding my fish is an event in itself, I call it controlled chaos. If I had to rinse it I would quit the hobby

 

[Roatan Reef]

I myself, don’t rinse. I have always felt like the frozen food gravy would find its way to all of my corals. I can definitely rationalize an opposite view but I like to feed my whole tank.
“Frozen food gravy”.

1. Do you rinse your frozen feasts or not, and why?

I have a small container that I mix up LRS frozen and Formula 1 Frozen with a shot of Zooplankton....let it all dissolve and refrigerate...then add a small amount directly to tank, along with Hikari Carnivore Pellets, and TDO Chroma Boost...works great!

 

[Lasse]

I do not rinse and I feed exclusive with frozen artemia and freshwater cyclops - the tank looks like this



Sincerely Lasse

 

[AlgaeBarn]

I myself, don’t rinse. I have always felt like the frozen food gravy would find its way to all of my corals. I can definitely rationalize an opposite view but I like to feed my whole tank.
“Frozen food gravy”.

1. Do you rinse your frozen feasts or not, and why?

I'm not sure what I really called it before now, but I will be calling it frozen food gravy from here on out haha

 

[editour2]

I always rinse....just a habit now.

 

[AJsReef]

So we should be feeding every day. But only test our levels weekly or monthly. Testing each day to determine our levels so that we can also determine whether to rinse food or not, I don’t think is going to happen.

Change seldom happens overnight. The thought process is if your levels are rising test over test, try implementing rinsing food to see if it reduces N/P for the next test. The likely outcome, is no noticeable change between rinsing and not.

If a tank is struggling with N/P but only testing monthly, then they likely have more issues than rinsing food lets be honest.

 

[LeftyReefer]

I thaw my frozen cubes in a little cup. when the cubes are thawed, I dump the thaw juice into my DT which always has low nutrients. I then mix in a little RODI into the cup, swirl it around a little and then dump a little of the slurry into each of my tanks at feed time.

I don't rinse, but I do dump the thaw juice into only (1) of my tanks.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

I myself, don’t rinse. I have always felt like the frozen food gravy would find its way to all of my corals. I can definitely rationalize an opposite view but I like to feed my whole tank.
“Frozen food gravy”.

1. Do you rinse your frozen feasts or not, and why?

I'm in the "no rinse" camp as well. Slurry = coral food.

 

[damsels are not mean]

No. Too much work. No reason to do so.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Had a high nutrient tank I would strain the food for. Nowadays with my ulns I just drop n plop

 

[BZOFIQ]

No rinse, just swish in the water as I hand feed.