Stupid Mistake, Marine Snow

[cam78]

I fed my tank with Marine Snow and forgot to refrigerate it after opening. I left it out for approximately 5 hours. It was already refrigerated prior to use because I just opened it a few days ago. The temp in my house was about 64-65 degrees. You think it will be ok to use again? Its a brand new bottle and really don't feel like chucking it.

 

[rickross23]

Pitch it anyway....marine snow doesn't work.

 

[flower]

Does it smell bad? Does it look thick and slimmy?
It's true, Marine snow is not high quality coral food...do you WHY we know that.....because we all tried it at one time or other. I doubt being left out a day will hurt a thing, but the above is what to look for if the phytoplankton or other coral food goes bad.

 

[btldreef]

Toss it. It wasn't good before you left it out anyways.
Good coral foods:
Water changes/good water quality
Light
Fish poop (seriously, it's fertilizer to your corals)
Cyclopeez shrimp
Nutramar Ova
Oyster Feast
And for bigger LPS and Non Photosynthetics like Sun Coral: mysis shrimp

 

[rickross23]

Anemones like mysis also....my 2 RBTAs love it.