Best Way to Rinse Food Cubes?
- Thread starter LeslieS
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- Upper East Side
I've been trying to lower my phosphates too. 
What I used to do is put a cube in my net and rinse it under warm tap water. What I do now is put some RO in a teapot, heat it up a little, and rinse with that. I just pour it over the mysis in a net. Then I dump it in.
Are you running a phosban reactor? I just bought me one of those as well. ;-)
What I used to do is put a cube in my net and rinse it under warm tap water. What I do now is put some RO in a teapot, heat it up a little, and rinse with that. I just pour it over the mysis in a net. Then I dump it in.
Are you running a phosban reactor? I just bought me one of those as well. ;-)
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- Upper East Side
Actually, this thread had a discussion about this very thing towards the end.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/general-discussion/14364-ok-its.html?highlight=food+recipies
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/general-discussion/14364-ok-its.html?highlight=food+recipies
Leslie.
What i do is ,fill a cup or RO water and put a cube of whatever im feeding .It will float unitl it thaws out ,once it does it will fall to the bottom of the cup.I then pour out slowly.the water until the food get the rim ,then i fill the cup up with RO water again and do this 3 times .It time consuming but i usually do this in the morning before showering ,so whan i get out ,its thawed ,then after getting dressed its time for the 3rd time and then feeding .HTH
What i do is ,fill a cup or RO water and put a cube of whatever im feeding .It will float unitl it thaws out ,once it does it will fall to the bottom of the cup.I then pour out slowly.the water until the food get the rim ,then i fill the cup up with RO water again and do this 3 times .It time consuming but i usually do this in the morning before showering ,so whan i get out ,its thawed ,then after getting dressed its time for the 3rd time and then feeding .HTH
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- Upper East Side
I don't rinse cyclo, though I've heard if you use a brine shrimp net they won't fall through
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- hells kitchen
I use a shrimp net to rinse my food stuff and SOME cyclo WILL fall through!
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- Upper East Side
Thus proving that you can't always believe what you hear. :batangel: *
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I put the cubes in a small dish, once it thaws out i use a napkin to soak up the water. I often use vitamins as well, so i soak that up too. I don't do the full rinse as suggested, but it's better than dumping all that water in there. Maybe i should start though.
All frozen cubes, except Cyclop-eeze
- thaw in a cup with tank water
- drain through a brine shrimp net
- place cube contents back into the cup with Selcon
- add more tank water to cup
- dump contents into tank or target feed LPS
- thaw in a cup with tank water
- dump contents into tank or target feed LPS
Hey Deano, in another thread you said you rinsed the cyclopeeze in a brine shrimp net to which I replied I tried that and it all goes through. You said you do it all the time and it doesn't, now we see you just thaw it in water after all:eat: . You do have to thaw it in water or it will clump in the tank. with Rod's food it all goes in as there very little wet slurry, with all the cubes and mysids, thaw in RO and pour off all the extra through a net.
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- Franklin Lakes, NJ
I believe a coffee filter is around the size needed for cyclo... just don't make a french roast with it afterwards.
Lissa, I'm glad this was brought back up.
The following statements are IMO/IME
1) Cyclopeeze don't fit through brine shrimp nets.
2) Coffee filters are great, but it takes FOREVER for water to drain through it.
3) I was really into Deans directions as stated above (post #11). To me, it made perfect sense. So I tried it for a couple of weeks. I made sure that I timed it so a phosban change would occur during my try-out. My PO4 went from 0.02 to 0.08 by the time I decided this didn't work out for me. I went back to my old technique and I'm holding steady at 0.02
The following statements are IMO/IME
1) Cyclopeeze don't fit through brine shrimp nets.
2) Coffee filters are great, but it takes FOREVER for water to drain through it.
3) I was really into Deans directions as stated above (post #11). To me, it made perfect sense. So I tried it for a couple of weeks. I made sure that I timed it so a phosban change would occur during my try-out. My PO4 went from 0.02 to 0.08 by the time I decided this didn't work out for me. I went back to my old technique and I'm holding steady at 0.02
Deans technique made a lot of sense to me since it seems I dump the majority of my vitamins down the drain. Now I'm thinking that I manage to get just enough of the vitamins mixed into the food to give me positive results with the fish, but I'm not dumping all the vitamins in the tank to foul water quality.
Some say vitamins in the water benefit coral, but I've never seen anything that benefits coral more than good water quality.
Keep in mind also that Dean is geared towards LPS, which may readily accept the vitamins, while I'm an SPS guy and I'm very careful with what I put in my tank... that sounds funny comming from a guy who buys his supplements at GNC and Home Depot.
How many ppm? And measured how?
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