Rinsing Frozen Fish Foods??

[Leroy]

Do you feel it's necessary to rinse frozen fish foods thru brine shrimp nets? From what I understand some contain some nasty stuff like super high phosphates tho Hikari is pretty safe as well as some other that make claim. Does that mean that the fish goo I got from the last reefer cookout is polluting my tank?

 

[KathyC]

Many, if not most of us here rinse our food before feeding.
No point in adding extra pollution if you don't have to

 

[aaron23]

yea i find it very necessary to rinse fish food. the water i rinse with becomes all polluted and gets all cloudy etc..

 

[bad coffee]

i rinse mysis, i don't rinse cyclopeeze.

when i make my own food, I don't rinse it, because i don't put garbage in it.

 

[kigs]

What is actually being rinsed off? I wondered about this too when feeding frozen piscine energetics mysis.

 

[rookie07]

how do you rinse off mysis?
Do you put it in a net and run tap water over it? Until it becomes unfrozen?
I always notice the cloudy-ness that come from my feeding mysis, is that bad(I am reffering to the group buy mysis from frag swap)

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

how do you rinse off mysis?
Do you put it in a net and run tap water over it? Until it becomes unfrozen?
I always notice the cloudy-ness that come from my feeding mysis, is that bad(I am reffering to the group buy mysis from frag swap)

Almost got it. Rinse is with RO or Distilled water.

Tap Water is bad for a reef system.

 

[rookie07]

thanks again chief.
I will be posting a pic of my tank on Monday, after i pick up some zoas from jhale. Wait till you guys/girls see, its looking really good.