Rinsing food a wasted effort?

[dawgface]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/3/chemistry">http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/3/chemistry</a>

Appears it maybe.... As well as dry foods are lower in Po4 than frozen, not so much!

 

[superclown]

Very interesting find makes me feel better about beeing lazy and just tossing the frozen cube in cheers

 

[stacy22]

I read this yesterday and thought it was pretty interesting. I never really rinsed anyway. Now I don't have to feel guilty about it.

 

[dakota9]

I still say we're better off rinsing. I know a lot of cloudy crap goes down the drain instead of in my tank....

 

[dawgface]

Dakota9;751711 wrote: I still say we're better off rinsing. I know a lot of cloudy crap goes down the drain instead of in my tank....

If your referencing foods like Rod's, that cloudy crap is food.

 

[dakota9]

Right now, I'm referencing PE Mysis, and that cloudy crap is crap...... Actually it's probably food too, but nothing that gets eaten in the tank and just taxes the biofilter.

 

[dawgface]

Dakota9;751744 wrote: Right now, I'm referencing PE Mysis, and that cloudy crap is crap...... Actually it's probably food too, but nothing that gets eaten in the tank and just taxes the biofilter.

I plan to continue rinsing Mysis so I agree there.

 

[jef4y]

+1 I don't know what the deal is with PE mysis, but it's like they froze it in milk.

 

[grouper therapy]

DawgFace;751745 wrote: I plan to continue rinsing Mysis so I agree there.

What do you rinse with?

 

[dawgface]

RO, in that sense I've always been a purist.

 

[dakota9]

I let it thaw on a paper towel, which absorbs a lot of the crap, then I squirt it with a little tank water, swish, and use tongs to pick it out of the water.

 

[siege]

Very interesting read, tanks for sharing!

I never did bother rinsing my food - I only ever put it in a little RODI to defrost it and then dumped the whole thing in the tank - but that's not saying much, since that tank had on-again-off-again ssues I was never able to fully nail down... though I can't say I think this was the problem, either, since we didn't feed much frozen anyway and as I recall, phosphates never tested as problematic, it was always nitrites and nitrates.

 

[ralph atl]

I'll continue to rinse my PE Mysis...and add selcon.

 

[johniii]

I always just tossed the pe mysis in. Maybe I could start rinsing

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[dme330i]

yes, wasted effort

 

[grouper therapy]

dme330i;751859 wrote: yes, wasted effort

yep

 

[johniii]

Guess ill just keep being lazy and let my tank water rinse the food for me

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[schwaggs]

I figure whatever the filter feeders or coral in my tank don't eat, the skimmer will get so I never rinse.