frozen shrimp

[StevieM]

What are your methods of serving frozen brine shrimp?? I recently picked some up and I thought I remember seeing people saying how they rinse it before serving as opposed to plopping the cube in there? What exactly am I rinsing away? Thanks all!

steve

[125gJoe]

You are rinsing away excess liquid that may accumulate in the gravel.. Rinsing will help you keep the aquarium cleaner.

[Z Man]

Stevie, You are rinsing away the 'Dissolved Solids' which in brine shrimp is mostly SALT! I keep most of my tank water at about 80pp Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) as I have mostly SA dwarf cichlids. I just did a test for a thread like this on another forum. I took a cup of tank water and placed a 1/2 ice cube size piece of brine shrimp in it to thaw out. Now, the water was 80ppm and in the thawed container the liquid was 999ppm!!!!!!!! I rinsed once and added some more tank water. The reading was about 200ppm. I rinsed again and the result was only about 120ppm. I can live with that but but not with dumping in 999ppp which after a few feedings will really mess up my water in the tanks. Not to mention that vile brown color that you will see. I hope this helps. P.S. I get those 2# blocks at The Fish Place for about $10 and cut up into cubes of the size I need. You can e-mail me at WnyZman@aol.com if you need any other info.