Feeding

How do you feed frozen cubes? When I have frozen brine shrimp, I could dissolve the cube in a cup of tank-water and then pour it in. With the Formula One, it doesn't dissolve and just sinks to the bottom. :-/

 

unless your feeding something wierd. you should be able to leave it in a cup of water for a while and it should melt. maybe your not letting it melt long enough?

 

The Formula One pretty much stays in cube form unless you mash it up so...mash it

 

I let it sit for about 15 min then dropped it in the tank. More than an hour later it was still a cube. I ended up taking the aquarium tongs and mashing it up...

OK, thanks for the help!
;D

 

Because of its consistency, the formula cubes have to be mashed up unless you want all of that food ending up accumulating on your substrate for bottom feeders and such!

 

While I never do this because my own system is so large, some people swear by dumping out the water the frozen cubes were thawed in because of phosphates and such.

Anyway, I feed the frozen formula cubes on occasion and I thaw them out, then I remove them from the water and use a fresh razor blade to quarter each cube, then I mash with a fork to make different sizes for all my fish. Scoop back into a cup of water, swirl and feed.

 

Cool, thanks for the ideas. I guess I'll get to play with my food!

 

I think the Formula one has a gel additive to make it stay in cube form. It's better for Fish only systems were large angles are eating. I guess. But I did buy some one time, about a year ago. Didn't like it and still have most of it in the freezer

J

 

Are the others like that, too? I tried again today mashing it up but it still stays in large-mashed pieces that settle to the bottom. It will just sit there unless a piece comes off, then the fish will eat it. I guess I really was spoiled by how freely the brine shrimp came apart.

 

You have to mash it up pretty well. The only one that I find is tough is the formula 2 cubes.

I don't have any problems feeding the frozen formula cubes.