How to feed frozen food.

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I was at my LFS store this past Friday and picked up a bicolor psuedochromis. While I was there I inquired about some other foods for my fish since I've only been feeding them marine pellets. Current, I just have three fish in my tank now. I have a tomato Clownfish, an Engineer Goby and now the psuedochromis. I ended up with a pack of frozen food which contains a variety including shrimp, krill, scallops, etc.

My question is, how should I prepare this stuff and put it in my tank? The packaging says to feed directly from the package or thaw at room temp. (not in water). I've been putting it in a food clip, frozen, and placing it in the tank. I did a little searching around and everyone seems to thaw them in tank water and then pour it back into the tank once thawed.

Also, is it common for fish to takes bites of this stuff, spit it out, then chew it again?

Thanks everyone
 
The only piece of advice I would give you here is the following...
I would thaw it in ro/di water, drain/rinse it and then add it to the tank. That stuff is usually packed in all kind of preservatives, and juices, that will not do anything for your tank but raise nitrates. I always rinse and then add to the tank.
 
Take a plastic container. fill it with tank water, add the frozen food, when it thaws use a syringe and feed accordingly.
 
Ya I usually just use water from the tank and thaw it and use a syringe...if I'm lazy or if my fish are really barking at me I will just throw the frozen chunk in and let them go at it.
 
Well I've tried a few things over the past few days. First, the algae clip that I have came with a plastic net for these types of things to I placed the frozen food on the algae clip and stuck it about 2/3 down my tank's glass. My clown fish has no interest in picking at it while it's in the net, however my bicolor psuedochromis will. My engineer goby will only eat the scraps that fall and won't actually swim up to the clip, I'm assuming because of it's shy nature.

Just right now I dropped the frozen food in my tank as is. It floated for a few minutes but the second it hit some water movement it sank to the bottom and got wedged between some rocks. The clown fish nipped at it slightly while it was floating but really didn't eat too much. While it's currently wedged, the psuedochromis is again, the only fish that seems to show interest in it. I'm sure my hermit crabs will get to it soon.

So what's the trick to even distribute the food. Should I dice the frozen bit into smaller pieces? The only thing my clown fish seems to like are the pellets, it goes crazy for those.
 
I get a mixture of frozen food, defrost it and rinse it with RO water to get rid of phosphates, nitrates etc, put it in a squeezy bottle, top it off with RO water and just give a squirt a day and keep it in the fridge:)
 
The way i believe best; is to thaw the block in a small container of tank water then strain out the food and throw away the water, putting just the food in the aquarium, this will keep the unwanted excess' out of the water and help keep down high nutrient levels.
I have just started using a marine quartet frozen food in four different blocks at a time, thawing them out in plain RO water, mixing them up and keeping the resulting mush in a small air tight container in the fridge for the evening feed over three nights, this seems to be working for my fish.
 
catpicklesdog said:
I get a mixture of frozen food, defrost it and rinse it with RO water to get rid of phosphates, nitrates etc, put it in a squeezy bottle, top it off with RO water and just give a squirt a day and keep it in the fridge:)
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Thats what I do but I just put it back in a cup and use a syringe. Never thought about getting a special bottle.
 
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