fridge, freezer, or both?

[TomFromStLouis]

It looks like I might add a dormroom sized fridge to my office to store fish food in (the office fridge is turning out to NOT be a popular spot for bloodworms ).

Right now I only use frozen food in addition to flake. But I could maybe see some easy fresh food like, um, like what? CBW? Is that easy to maintain?

As you can see, I have not figured out what kinds of food I want to keep for my angelfish. Variety is good but I need something easy and clean for an office environment. So this is really a food question I guess. What foods can I keep in the fridge that would be a welcome addition to their diet?

Do I want just a freezer, or a combo of fridge and freezer? Keeping in mind the pathetic size of the freezer section of the combos, and the defrost issues, I am inclined to go just for a freezer and skip any blackworm rinsing etc. that might be encouraged by having a fridge. Thoughts?

 

[ChilDawg]

I'd go for the freezer unless you have a real hankering for feeding livefoods.

 

[valerie]

instead of feeding frozen foods try feeding freeze dried foods. I feed freeze dried blod worms to my angelfish(and other fish) and they love it.

 

[superjohnny]

You can buy frozen blood worms & brine shrimp (sea monkeys!!!) at the LFS and keep them in the freezer in a container. Or is this what you're doing and you're work-mates are freaking out?

You only feed once a day right? Can you take a frozen chunk in some water sealed in a salsa jar. Bye the time you get to work it'll be un-thawed and ready to serve.

Just a thought.

 

[ChilDawg]

Originally posted by superjohnny
brine shrimp (sea monkeys!!!)

Sea monkeys are actually a man-made species known to science as Artemia nyos. Most of the brine shrimp available for fish food are A. salina. I am saying this for your benefit, as some Sea Monkey keepers are so fanatical, that they would severely flame you for feeding them to your fish.

 

[superjohnny]

Thanks dawg, good info there. I'd hate to be on the 10 most wanted list on some fanatical website

As Johnny Carson used to say... "I did not know that."

 

[ChilDawg]

Hey, no prob...I read it the July? 2002 issue of AFM, and I decided to share...Unlike Haley Joel Osment in "The Sixth Sense," I don't like going around and saying that "I see dead people."