Frozen Fish Food

[lilclowns]

I know I should have been feeding them this from the beginning.. but you know I was new. Anyways, does frozen food cloud your water? How much prior to feeding time should you lay it out to thaw---do you even do this? Oh yeah, do frozen foods dramatically increase the color of your fish because my fish are bright, but I feel like they could be brighter. because I go to fish store and the color of the fish there is like BOOM, dark orange, bright red. I was looking to buy these two
*Sally's Saltwater Fish Food Multi-Pack... It includes marine cuisine, emerald entrée, squid and omega-3 enriched brine shrimp.
* And I'm torn between

Hikari Bio-Pure Frozen Spirulina Brine Shrimp Frozen Fish Food or Hikari Bio-Pure® Brine Shrimp
I don't see a difference between the two, if anyone knows a difference please say.
If these are no good I would probably get the Sally's Brine Shrimp.
Thank you anyone and everyone

 

[flower]

Hi,
Brine shrimp is no good for your fish, it's like feeding them candy. Instead feed your fish frozen mysis shrimp. For the veggie eaters Spirulina or better yet the seaweed/algae sheets.
How to feed the fish frozen food....Get a fish net, and put the cube in it and run cold water over it until it is thawed and also now rinsed...then feed it to the fish by putting the net in the tank and releasing the food. Rinse the net front and back in hot water so it is clean for the next feeding.
Now...about the color of your fish, yes food does affect color, but so does the lighting. If you have regular fish lights, the color of the fish will look more drab than in the store...the T5HO lights or Power compacts (PC) are pretty cheap and will make their colors look much better.

 

[lilclowns]

I usually just give them flakes in the morning and brine or mysis at night. Yes, I have algae sheets. Won't running the water drain the nutrients? Also, I have some actinic light thing, it's like purple color. Does frozen cloud the tank? Thanks Alot

 

[saxman]

ALL food can cloud your tank, and FWIW, most folks overfeed their tanks. Besides becoming cloudy, your water will sustain an ammonia spike as well, which isn't good for your fish (it burns their gill structures).
Hikari BS+ and spirilina BS has been somewhat enriched, so they aren't as bad as feeding out plain Artemia. However, what you want to do is be sure that your fish get a good, varied diet.
Rinsing your food is way better than not rinsing it as there's a lot of waste/bacteria in thawed food "juice", that will foul your tank.
How often you feed your tank depends on what you keep as well as the age of your fish.

 

[lilclowns]

I just fed them frozen yesterday, they seemed to enjoy it. So what I'm getting from these replies is that frozen food has more consequences than dry food? also, when I did it yesterday, I put the frozen food- still in the packet inside a ziploc bag and put it in a cup of warm water and when it was done I dropped some in the tank. How do you strain/drain the food? When I put it in it kinda went into little pieces and if I rinsed that it would just go through the holes of the strainer.

 

[saxman]

Use a fine net or a BS net. You don't want to run the water so hard it mashes/mauls the food...just a gentle stream to wash out the non solids (it just takes a few seconds).
Overfeeding is overfeeding, regardless of the type of food. All of them can dirty-up your water quality.

 

[lilclowns]

All right, thanks- I will try it like that tonight