Frozen nopox cubes?

[KenRexford]

I am afraid of automatic dosers.

Assuming you can't talk me out of my irrstional fear, my problem is dosing nopox on vacation with a house sitter who is a dingbat. She can handle frozen fish food competently, though, which made me think of a nopox dosing solution -- frozen cubes of nopox.

Would freezing nopox be possible in a regular freezer, considering the makeup, and, even if so, would it be safe to freeze?

Any other solutions to recommend? Or, should I just get over my fears?

 

[ENVY]

Isn't Methanol nopox's main ingredient? If so I don't think you can physically freeze it in a standard residential freezer. I believe it's over -100f to freeze.


Maybe look into switching over to biopellets

 

[User1]

Doubt it will freeze. However there are a couple options that I can think of. One, buy some disposable syringes and pre-fill. Place each one in a bag and place day of week on the bag. That way they know clearly 1 per day and they just squirt it in and off they go. Another option is to use a jello shot / small plastic cup with lid and again pre-fill / dose and mark on each the day of week.

Unless they are utterly clueless or do not pay attention this is the one way I would do it. Not knocking anyone who house sits it is more of a dingbat comment and how to make it easy for them. I do not think dingbat - more of just someone not reef or aquarium aware - so ignorance I guess. Not a bad thing.

In any case that is what I would do. Otherwise another option is to just not dose. The one thing you do not want is to add more than where you are at currently and maintain a safe dose so you don't go to zero nutrients.