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How long can frozen food last in a fridge at 5 c after it has defrosted ?
At what stage will it be unusable or unsafe to feed to the fish ?
Thanks in advance for any input that can be given :-)
 
How long can frozen food last in a fridge at 5 c after it has defrosted ?
At what stage will it be unusable or unsafe to feed to the fish ?
Thanks in advance for any input that can be given :-)
Most decent manufacturers say it starts to break down and lose proteins and fatty acids 30min-1hr.
 
Most decent manufacturers say it starts to break down and lose proteins and fatty acids 30min-1hr.
wow i did not think it would be that fast. Playing around with ideas for a frozen auto feeder. keeping the food fresh is a must but a tough thing to crack the rest is easy.
 
wow i did not think it would be that fast. Playing around with ideas for a frozen auto feeder. keeping the food fresh is a must but a tough thing to crack the rest is easy.
There's a thread around here on this very topic. A guy made one with a DOS and LRS. The freshness of the food was the biggest obstacle. I do know his video is on YouTube.
 
There's a thread around here on this very topic. A guy made one with a DOS and LRS. The freshness of the food was the biggest obstacle. I do know his video is on YouTube.
I think i may have seen that video alright. I have seen another where a fridge freezer was intergrated so the food came frozen was dropped straight into the tank. If someone came up with a nicly sized unit they would make a fortune :-)
 
I thaw enough food for a week. There fish, the fish, shrimp, crab, etc. pretty much eat anything floating, laying on the bottom of the ocean at 78+ degree which really speeds up the decomposition of dead fish that the live sea animals eat.
Fish for human consumption stored properly has a shelf life of 7 to 10 days at a temperature of 36 degrees. You know the fish at the market that is stored on ice, and looks really fresh. don't buy fish for the reason that the ice has a slight amount of calorie in the water due to the process at the water plant making it safe for human consummation. For this reason the chlorinated ice/water is all ready breaking down the fish. The best fish to purchase is wrapped with plastic and then stored on ice or no ice at all, just a cold cooler wrapped so there is no cross contamination. And if it is a really high end fish market, they use purifier-ed water that has all of the chemical compounds removed when the ice is made and still the fish should be wrapped.
The reason I am going into this long explanation of how I feed my fish, is if you, as a person have not looked for these procedures of storing fish for human consumption, why be so concerned about the fish food? There are no regulation in place for the processing of fish food, the processing is up to the company producing the food. The product is bought at the same markets/wholesalers and some companies have there own boat and go out and catch there products. I would guess to say most of the fish food products we purchase for out critters I would not eat.

Procedure:
1 200 ml beaker
50 ml ro/di water
Frozen food (LRF, Mysis, Homemade, vitamin-m, garlic oil) sometime focus
Thaw/slack in the ro/di water in refrigerator at 40 degrees
Stir and break up chunks
Feed with 1/2 table spoon twice daly
cover and store in refrigerator at 40 degrees

Don't get crazy about it, if the food smalls toss it
 
I thaw enough food for a week. There fish, the fish, shrimp, crab, etc. pretty much eat anything floating, laying on the bottom of the ocean at 78+ degree which really speeds up the decomposition of dead fish that the live sea animals eat.
Fish for human consumption stored properly has a shelf life of 7 to 10 days at a temperature of 36 degrees. You know the fish at the market that is stored on ice, and looks really fresh. don't buy fish for the reason that the ice has a slight amount of calorie in the water due to the process at the water plant making it safe for human consummation. For this reason the chlorinated ice/water is all ready breaking down the fish. The best fish to purchase is wrapped with plastic and then stored on ice or no ice at all, just a cold cooler wrapped so there is no cross contamination. And if it is a really high end fish market, they use purifier-ed water that has all of the chemical compounds removed when the ice is made and still the fish should be wrapped.
The reason I am going into this long explanation of how I feed my fish, is if you, as a person have not looked for these procedures of storing fish for human consumption, why be so concerned about the fish food? There are no regulation in place for the processing of fish food, the processing is up to the company producing the food. The product is bought at the same markets/wholesalers and some companies have there own boat and go out and catch there products. I would guess to say most of the fish food products we purchase for out critters I would not eat.

Procedure:
1 200 ml beaker
50 ml ro/di water
Frozen food (LRF, Mysis, Homemade, vitamin-m, garlic oil) sometime focus
Thaw/slack in the ro/di water in refrigerator at 40 degrees
Stir and break up chunks
Feed with 1/2 table spoon twice daly
cover and store in refrigerator at 40 degrees

Don't get crazy about it, if the food smalls toss it
I have also done that but the reason I ask is that if I was to setup an auto frozen food feeder I wanted to figure how long a period it could work for. For example if I went away for 2 weeks
 
I have also done that but the reason I ask is that if I was to setup an auto frozen food feeder I wanted to figure how long a period it could work for. For example if I went away for 2 weeks
The only way I figure out how to do it is feed freeze dried, and have my neighbor come over and feed frozen once a day:)
 
The only way I figure out how to do it is feed freeze dried, and have my neighbor come over and feed frozen once a day:)
All my fish eat pellet and flake even the mandrin. My tank has tonnes of pods also. But I am looking at the bigger picture here. What if you had a system where you did not need your friend to come over. I have a few ideas but the toughest part is to get a small enough freezer which would not look out of place if you wanted to have it for everyday use also. A holiday can be done.
 
The food may not be "bad", but rancidity is an issue. Rancidity will degrade of lot of the vitamins, making it a lot less nutritious. It also messes with the bonds of fat and what not, releasing toxic compounds.
 
The food may not be "bad", but rancidity is an issue. Rancidity will degrade of lot of the vitamins, making it a lot less nutritious. It also messes with the bonds of fat and what not, releasing toxic compounds.
Yes that would be a concern of mine. Allot of things to factor in lol
 

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