DO you Rinse your Mysis?

[Devaji]

I did a quick search nothing came up on a broad scale so I thought I would stat a poll be interesting to get an idea what y'all do.

 

[GlassMunky]

i personally dont rise ANY of my foods, i dont see the point.

 

[Porpoise Hork]

I used to, but stopped doing so after I added several filter feeders and non-photo synthetic gorgonians.

 

[MTBake]

I thaw in a cup of tank water, give it a stir and dump it in.

 

[LC8Sumi]

I’ve never did until recently. But now I’m rinsing it with RODI. I’m trying to cut back on the vermetid and bristleworm population by doing so.

 

[skiwez]

I don't even thaw...add 2 or 3 cubes and shut off return pump.... fish pick them up as they melt off

 

[Devaji]

I thaw in a cup of tank water, give it a stir and dump it in.

this is what I do as well. but go to thinking...i will have a fair amount of filter feeders in the new setup so I doubt i will but until tank is going strong I might?

 

[MichaelReefer]

I have a small cup I use. Throw the frozen mysis in, put a few tablespoons of tank water in it. Once it thaws I poor it into a tiny strainer I found at Target. Then put the mysis back into the cup, then feed the fish.

 

[mfinn]

About half the time I just thaw and dump and the other half I drain it and dump it. Just depends on how lazy I am that particular night.

 

[Hemmdog]

Thaw in tank water, dump in.

 

[saltyhog]

I don't see the point. The amount of nutrients in the water is negligible compared to what's in the food.

 

[Dolelo96]

I have a small dish/strainer Thaw and rinse with ro/di.

 

[lapin]

I put the cubes in some tank water or warm tea kettle water and dump them in

 

[DangerDave]

I just put it on the side of one the mp40, shooting out as it thaws.

 

[LegendaryCG]

I take a turkey baster and suck up a little tank water and put it into a ziplock bag with a cube and let it thaw and then dump/spray it in.

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

I don't rinse. I have too many vermetid snails to support.

LOL

 

[ca1ore]

Depends ... not all mysis are the same. I feed two kinds. The smaller hikari is pretty clean and requires no rinsing. The larger PE mysis is very ‘dirty’ and messes with my skimmer so I do rinse that. Tried the larger hikari but my fish won’t eat it (strange because they eat pretty much anything).

 

[Tastee]

I don’t quite get why people are worried about Phosphate (or other chemicals) in frozen food. For arguments sake let’s assume there are 1 ppm Phosphates in the cube of Mysis I add to my tank (a deliberately high number plucked out of the air). That cube is about 1 ml of material. In my 65g tank it is going into about 200,000 mls. That will raise my Phosphate by .000005 ppm. That is not even remotely within the margin of error of our test kits.