Ok this is probably going to be one of the newbiest questions you've seen here but sadly I need to ask. (search never works for me) How do you feed this food to your fish? I just tossed half a cube in with my mysis to thaw and came back a half hour later to find it still in a cube. So I tried to smash it up with a fork and it wouldn't smash up. I thought well mayb it floats and the fish would eat it. Nope wrong again. Sooo help this poor newb out and tell me how this is supposed to work.
Ocean Nutrition frozen cubes...
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dchao
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This thing is suppose to have gel binder, so you need to chop it up into bite size bits to feed the fish. The binder does keep all the ingredients together so nothing goes into the water.
Prime Reef is the only cube without the binder.
You need to thaw the cube first before you can cut it.
Prime Reef is the only cube without the binder.
You need to thaw the cube first before you can cut it.
I have those cubes and hate them.
I've since jumped on the cyclopeeze bandwagon.
I thought it would probably be one of those over hyped foods, but seeing all my fish and corals devourer the stuff, it's cyclopeeze for me from here on out.
At any rate, watch those cubes. I fed a cube in my 55 one day, and it just sank to a spot where nothing could really get at it. (uneaten foods = bad algae fuel) Cyclopeeze breaks apart into TINY pieces when put in the water and just gets blown around by my power heads until the corals/fish eat it all.
Stewie
I've since jumped on the cyclopeeze bandwagon.
I thought it would probably be one of those over hyped foods, but seeing all my fish and corals devourer the stuff, it's cyclopeeze for me from here on out.
At any rate, watch those cubes. I fed a cube in my 55 one day, and it just sank to a spot where nothing could really get at it. (uneaten foods = bad algae fuel) Cyclopeeze breaks apart into TINY pieces when put in the water and just gets blown around by my power heads until the corals/fish eat it all.
Stewie
MIKE NY
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I use alot of the Ocean Nutrition frozen products, as well cyclopeeze and others. The Prime Reef just takes a little longer to thaw. It does break up into smaller pieces and when it does I strain it with a fish net and put it in fresh tank water and pour it in a little at a time.
Yep I made the mistake of dropping the cube in the tank (luckily it was only half) it floated and fell to a spot I was not able to get to. So this morning I got up and found what was left of it a small bit floating in the current so I netted it out.
I was really surprised I couldn't mash it with the fork. Gonna try chopping it up today and see how my fish like it. Must have made some good food for my shrimp, crabs, and bristleworms.
I was really surprised I couldn't mash it with the fork. Gonna try chopping it up today and see how my fish like it. Must have made some good food for my shrimp, crabs, and bristleworms.
i8chicken
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I use Ocean Nutrition frozen food as well as Prime Reef. For all of them I put them in a very small cup of water straight from the tank, then go about my business for a little while. When I come back, it's always thawed out.
You can either pour it right back in the tank (which I do when I'm lazy), or if you don't want the yucky water going back to your tank, drain it through a net, and then swish the net around in your tank to get the food out.
Sometimes when I have frozen Mysis, I just drop the cube in a net and run it under the RO for a couple of seconds, then swich it in the tank.
You can either pour it right back in the tank (which I do when I'm lazy), or if you don't want the yucky water going back to your tank, drain it through a net, and then swish the net around in your tank to get the food out.
Sometimes when I have frozen Mysis, I just drop the cube in a net and run it under the RO for a couple of seconds, then swich it in the tank.
Paintbug
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thats how i do it. i have a plastic cup that i add some tank water to. let it thaw, mix it up with a feeder stick, then i use a turkey baster suck up some for the corals, and pour the rest in the tank. depending on the brand, i will feed 1-2 cubes every 2-3 days. i dont worry about the extra food because the clean up crew does their job quite well.
