Rinsing Food with Tap Water
- Thread starter Octoshark
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LOL.. it is a lot of maintenance... I spend a minimum of 2 hours each morning and 2 hours each evening cleaning and and feeding.... I buy flat packs not cubes of mysis.... I go through at least a flat pack a week......
ChadTheSpike
Reef Engineer
Since we are on the subject of feeding lots of tanks (hope you dont mind going OT octoshark!), one of the guys in my local reef club works for the smithsonian institute and forwarded me this email from his "list serve". What are y'alls thoughts on it?
"Hello List
I wanted to share with everybody my way of feeding the horses. At the moment, we have around 950 horses. So... feeding can take a lot of time. This may help. It will involve a Lee's Worm Feeder. $1.58 at Aquatic Eco.
Aquatic Eco Link
You will need to drill a hole in the bottom, around 5/32 drill bit is used. This can vary, based on how fast you want the food to escape.
Hang the feeder the furthest away from your drain/filter. All you have to do is, put some live food in the feeder and let the horses feed.
Some of the benefits, in my opinion:
-Helps train the horses to come feed at one spot (less food in filter)
-Allows you to observe who comes up for food (inspecting the health of the animal)
-Slowly will feed the system in the evening and day (always a plus for Syngnathidae)
I like to start this method with 3-4 month old horses. It really helps them find food, and feed throughout the day. As they grow, you can enlarge the hole and even put frozen mysis shrimp in there. Individual horses can stick their snout in the hole and grab shrimp out. Total time saver for us.
I do have a feeder on exhibit all the time (may not be possible for some of you). What I have observed is, the horses will check the cone ever 20-30 minutes to see if food is present in the feeder. This really creates a better exhibit animal compared to most horses that hitch on the bottom all day."
"Hello List
I wanted to share with everybody my way of feeding the horses. At the moment, we have around 950 horses. So... feeding can take a lot of time. This may help. It will involve a Lee's Worm Feeder. $1.58 at Aquatic Eco.
Aquatic Eco Link
You will need to drill a hole in the bottom, around 5/32 drill bit is used. This can vary, based on how fast you want the food to escape.
Hang the feeder the furthest away from your drain/filter. All you have to do is, put some live food in the feeder and let the horses feed.
Some of the benefits, in my opinion:
-Helps train the horses to come feed at one spot (less food in filter)
-Allows you to observe who comes up for food (inspecting the health of the animal)
-Slowly will feed the system in the evening and day (always a plus for Syngnathidae)
I like to start this method with 3-4 month old horses. It really helps them find food, and feed throughout the day. As they grow, you can enlarge the hole and even put frozen mysis shrimp in there. Individual horses can stick their snout in the hole and grab shrimp out. Total time saver for us.
I do have a feeder on exhibit all the time (may not be possible for some of you). What I have observed is, the horses will check the cone ever 20-30 minutes to see if food is present in the feeder. This really creates a better exhibit animal compared to most horses that hitch on the bottom all day."
ChadTheSpike
Reef Engineer
fd678: I dont know for sure that the feeding method would work at all since I havent used it... I am curious about thoughts on it, though...
However, I dont think trying it with frozen is a good idea at all because of the effect on water quality and potential bacterial growth on the food while it is in the feeder.
However, I dont think trying it with frozen is a good idea at all because of the effect on water quality and potential bacterial growth on the food while it is in the feeder.
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