That's like saying since vultures eat carrion, all birds eat carrion.
Maybe, but I know all fish in my tanks each mysis and chapped up fish mix, anthias, angels, butterflies, tangs, wrasse why wouldn’t they do that in the ocean? Aren’t most fish opportunistic, obviously I could be totally wrong, but saying that is there any proof fish will get sick from eating defrosted frozen left on the side for a few hours? I’ve always wondered how many times from manufacturing to me buying frozen from my LFS that its a least partially defrosted...
Defrosted for a few hours is something totally different than rancid. It is very well possible that fish foods can face suboptimal handling, which is why the smell test is all the more important, and using brands such as piscine, which is frozen in situ, or LRS, which uses human food grade seafood buys the consumer more time, should it be left out.
Yes i partially agree, I went to one extreme and the not daring to leave it out for more than a few hours is the other... I have no issue with manufacturing processes and the quality of the raw ingredients, it is maintaining the product frozen during transportation that I think is questionable... and the freezing cycle is known to promote bacterial proliferation in human food, but is this harmful to fish? This hobby is challenging and time consuming enough as it is, there are still lots of reefers that rinse food... based entirely on unproven reefers tales, is this another one of those?? I agree the smell test is potentially a good measure, but who knows if microbial activity isn’t sky high before our insensitive sense of smell can detect them or indeed if it doesn’t matter... no ones tested any of this...
Basic food safety rules for humans is that food can be out of sub-optimal temps for 4 hours and still be food safe. So if better handled at the begining, then it is more forgiving should there be minor mishaps. Now there is leeway in there, but that gives a starting point.
Is that for refrigerated food or frozen? There are different considerations for the two..
If you have a nano then yes a small but potential effect on water quality, but do you think the odd cube in big systems is going to have ny impact at all?? I don’t know about your fish but mine spit anything out they don’t like in seconds, and most vertebrates have an inate sense as to what’s edible or not...
