VIDEO: Feed Frozen Fish Food to Fish Increase Color and Vitality

[MarineDepot]

Feed Frozen Fish Food to Increase Color and Vitality

In today's video, we highlight some of our favorite frozen fish foods, share some of the useful feeding tools we use plus offer tips to help keep your fish looking and feeling their best.

[video=youtube;dFoYjUUFTF4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFoYjUUFTF4[/video]

 

[CoralNerd]

I feed frozen food all the time. My fish are spoiled. Thanks for the video.

 

[MarineDepot]

I feed frozen food all the time. My fish are spoiled. Thanks for the video.

They must love when you enter the room: "WOO-HOO! Feeding time, ya'll!" lol Thanks for watching!

 

[trunglippo]

Awesome videos and products all the time. My fish are fat... Lol

 

[F-Dawg]

I need a food strainer! Next thing on the list.

 

[MarineDepot]

Awesome videos and products all the time. My fish are fat... Lol

Thank you so much for your kind words! Your feedback definitely fuels our desire to do more videos! We are planning to release another on Friday and Monday... hopefully we can get 'em done. There are too few hours in the day sometimes...

 

[MarineDepot]

I need a food strainer! Next thing on the list.

The NextReef strainer we used in the video actually works really well—only the smallest of food particles got through the holes.

 

[twomuch42004]

Feed Frozen Fish Food to Increase Color and Vitality

In today's video, we highlight some of our favorite frozen fish foods, share some of the useful feeding tools we use plus offer tips to help keep your fish looking and feeling their best.

[video=youtube;dFoYjUUFTF4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFoYjUUFTF4[/video]

Not understanding on your video you say not to feed frozen directly into the tank but I have seen many times where you feed rods foods directly into your tank? Can you clarify please

 

[cthetoy]

The NextReef strainer we used in the video actually works really wellonly the smallest of food particles got through the holes.

Informative video. I used a baby brine shrimp net. You can thaw the food, rinse it, wring it lightly and flip the net upside down into the tank.

 

[MarineDepot]

Not understanding on your video you say not to feed frozen directly into the tank but I have seen many times where you feed rods foods directly into your tank? Can you clarify please

Thank you for your question and we apologize for sending mixed messages. You can certainly drop a piece of Rod's Food into your tank and call it a day. The point we were trying to make is there are alternative approaches that usually yield better results. You risk fouling your water quality and triggering algae problems if you're not mindful of the leftover food and nutrient-dense liquid that foods are often packaged in. Rinsing and straining frozen food helps remove some of that binder. At that point, many hobbyists use food supplements like Selcon, Vitamarin-M and/or garlic to boost the nutritional value and whet the appetites of fish. But the bottom line is just be mindful of what you're feeding so that only good stuff goes in your tank and none (or as little as possible) is wasted/uneaten. If you're regular with tank maintenance, the aforementioned problems may never be an issue for you. Every hobbyist and aquarium is different. We just want to share the tactics that have worked for us.

 

[MarineDepot]

Informative video. I used a baby brine shrimp net. You can thaw the food, rinse it, wring it lightly and flip the net upside down into the tank.

Thank you for pointing that out. We should have mentioned using nets as strainers! We have a couple of articles that do but seemingly overlooked that trick while putting this video together.

 

[twomuch42004]

Thank you for your question and we apologize for sending mixed messages. You can certainly drop a piece of Rod's Food into your tank and call it a day. The point we were trying to make is there are alternative approaches that usually yield better results. You risk fouling your water quality and triggering algae problems if you're not mindful of the leftover food and nutrient-dense liquid that foods are often packaged in. Rinsing and straining frozen food helps remove some of that binder. At that point, many hobbyists use food supplements like Selcon, Vitamarin-M and/or garlic to boost the nutritional value and whet the appetites of fish. But the bottom line is just be mindful of what you're feeding so that only good stuff goes in your tank and none (or as little as possible) is wasted/uneaten. If you're regular with tank maintenance, the aforementioned problems may never be an issue for you. Every hobbyist and aquarium is different. We just want to share the tactics that have worked for us.

Thanks for clarifying I know rods foods the original has allot of small micro products that feed corals. So that I let dissolve in tank. But great job n video I just know the average reefer that pays attention to detail would see that and would be confused