Rinsing Food

[Gdevine]

There was thread here last week or so about a member who rinsed his frozen food 5 times before feeding. I thought, and so did others, this was over kill...and it might be...but I did more research on the topic and no doubt; frozen food is a significant contributor to phosphate introduction.

While rinsing is time consuming and could and will easily wash away a lot of the added vitamins and nutrients added by the manufacturer I started to use a decantering process to rid a lot of the "juice" that contributes to this problem. And from what I have read in numerous publications, decantering seems to be the preferred process.

I simply take the froze food and place in a small super clear (no soap) glass and let defrost for 20 minutes. I then simply let the thawed juice run off the left behind food product. I then dose with a few drops of garlic and let stand in the frig until feeding time.

This process removes a great deal of the phosphates but leaves the food intact with vitamins which could be washed off in a rinsing process.

I also recently installed a phosphate reactor as an additional defence to high phostphates.

I do stand corrected; frozen food does introduce a great deal of phosphates to the closed system unless a decanturing or rinsing process is not practiced by the hobbiest.

 

[old salty]

I just use a brine shrimp net and tap water to thaw frozen food. I add it to some RO water and pour into the tank.

 

[neotekz]

look at the nutritional value on the packaging it will list phosphates. i also rinse out flake food too, some these have even higher phosphates

 

[Randall_James]

I always thaw in a dixie cup of water, drain water off and then feed