Food additives increasing NO3 PO4/ Rinsing frozen food.

[Ziggy17]

Hey all, a few questions.

Do you guys rinse your frozen food prior to feeding?
If so, does it minimize extra nutrients being added to the system?
Do we know if multi vitamin soaks, selcon, angel elixir add nutrients to the water?
If so, do we know how much?

I rinse my frozen food to reduce the PO4 in the system, but just wondering if I’m just putting it back in spades by soaking the food with additives. My tank PO4 runs between .1 and .2 and NO3 between 10-20, which is fine, but I’m just curious.

Thanks all.

 

[Spare time]

I don't rinse because I just don't care enough to do that lol. I'd rather just add a pinch of gfo if I need it but typically I run low on phosphate anyways.

 

[Spare time]

As for food additives, whatever is not eaten by corals and fish will just break down and add waste to the water. How much is a hard question to answer.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I don’t recommend rinsing since it may rinse away the potassium that may be released from cells when they freeze.

 

[Ziggy17]

I don’t recommend rinsing since it may rinse away the potassium that may be released from cells when they freeze.

Copy. So would the leached potassium during feeding then be absorbed by the fish?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Copy. So would the leached potassium during feeding then be absorbed by the fish?

Potassium is similar to calcium in seawater concentration, and is important at normal levels. Some folks find it depletes and others do not. I did not.