thawed frozen food

[stickx911]

I have a small 14g biocube with only 2 fish and a couple soft corals. I was feeding flake, but I hear that is horrible for phosphates and since I do have a hair algae problem, I want to do everything I can to fix it.

I've been thawing a cube in a resealable 2oz solo cup with a little bit of microvert and salt water to dilute. I feed about 1 to 2 ml a day which is maybe more than they need, but the question I have is how long do you think this mixture can be kept refrigerated? just a few days, a week, or till it's all used up?

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[jef4y]

I make my food in 3-4 day increments. Never had a problem. I don't know if it makes a difference but I keep mine in RODI instead of tank water.


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[heathlindner25]

are flakes bad for the tank? phosphate wise? I also have hair algae

 

[jayu]

I believe all or most foods will contain phosphates. I think the key is to make sure the food is being consumed rather than left to decompose.

 

[stickx911]

heathlindner25;766707 wrote: are flakes bad for the tank? phosphate wise? I also have hair algae

I just heard it from a friend who does tank maintenance. It may not be true, but I hate hair algae, so I'm trying what I can.

I barely fed them a few flakes a day but the problem never slowed. Phosphates always test 0 of course because the HA eats it all, lol.

 

[falos]

You can always manually remove ha use a 1/8 inch rigid plastic tube cut triangle notches in the end create a siphon use the hose to scrape the algae off of the rock. You can also take out a rock and using a scrub brush scrub of algae in a bucket with tank water in it you may want to use gloves . also media such as granular ferric oxide or any other phosphate removing media such as phosguard the bes the best way to to lower phosphate nitrate ammonia household pollutants and pollutants that get in the water from aquarius hands is water change water change water chang

 

[jef4y]

I've battled one form of algae or another for 3 years now, and recently got it under control. One of my changes was removing ALL dry foods from the tank. I only use frozen and am very light on the feedings.

I believe that the dry food just wasn't being consumed rapidly enough by the fish and it was causing probs for me. Not sure if that's true, but my tank looks better now than it ever has.

 

[realfish]

Here is a good article that gives the phosphate content of some common foods we use. The frozen seem to be the best, but there are dry foods that aren't too bad