Advice on mixing food for multiple days

[coolsurf]

My fish have probably been the most pampered since I pull out the frozen cube, slice it up, chop off some mysis from the block, add vitamins, add garlic once a day, let it soak then feed. I am looking for a bit of a shortcut as in premixing food in advance for several days at a time so I don't have to continue this ritual at every feeding. I've been doing it this way forever. I would like to hear what others do and how they store it so fish don't get food poisoning. Thanks.

 

[ralph atl]

I thaw shrimp in ro water in 5 minutes, rinse my brine, tubifex, etc. Add all in a small mixing bowl. Add garlic, selcon, beta-glucan, mix well, and portion in an one of those old iced-cube trays. I take a syringe or dropper of ro water cover with a thin layer, so there is no freezer burn.

 

[munchkin]

I make my own food and add garlic and vitamins. I freeze it in ziploc bags then cut of enough for 3-4 days. I place that in a small container add some r/o water and place it in the fridge. It's ready to feed when I am.

 

[ralph atl]

mysterybox;348056 wrote: I thaw shrimp in ro water in 5 minutes, rinse my brine, tubifex, etc. Add all in a small mixing bowl. Add garlic, selcon, beta-glucan, mix well, and portion in an one of those old iced-cube trays. I take a syringe or dropper of ro water cover with a thin layer, so there is no freezer burn.

oh yeah, I add cyclo-peeze & oyster eggs, a few other things.

 

[cr500_af]

FWIW, I just got back from a 4-day trip, and I used portion cups to prepare the frozen food with RO water, then put them in the fridge, and instructed my "sitter" to just add one cup a day. When I got home, I used the last cup, and the mysis cube I had put in for that particular day was.... wrong. It wasn't smellier, but it looked like each bit was "fuzzier" once it got in the water...and the fish avoided it.

 

[ralph atl]

atreyu917;348123 wrote: ooooh where do you buy oyster eggs???

many places have them. I bought my last batch at the Avarium in Duluth.

 

[ralph atl]

atreyu917;348145 wrote: They extremely small?
I wonder how much the copperband would like them

it's more for corals than anything else