Ringin Frozen Food with Tap ok?

ralphie16 · 01/26/2007, 12:58 PM

This might be going crazy but I am trying to reduce my phosphates and I read that rinzing frost foods is recommended. Can I use regular tap water to rinse? Or will the crap in the tap water stay in the food when I feed it?

rustybucket145 · 01/26/2007, 01:00 PM

toughie! Why not just use a cup of tank water? That should rinse good enough.

ralphie16 · 01/26/2007, 01:15 PM

I thought of that but Im trying to find out the cons of using tap water. Maybe I have to try and defrost some food with tap water and in another cup tank water and then run some test on them. Which tests would be most useful?

dcombs44 · 01/26/2007, 01:40 PM

You could rinse with RO as well just to save yourself the trouble.

LobsterOfJustice · 01/26/2007, 01:45 PM

Rinsing with tap is fine.

Waxxiemann · 01/26/2007, 01:49 PM

I've always wondered this as well. I've been tripple soaking mine in RO before I feed.

I usually start with a little RO and 2 or 3 drops of garlic then I move to another small dish or RO and Selcon and finally just a quick dip or 2 in yet another dish of RO.

Needless to say, this is time consuming. I think I'll try to first rinse it really good in tap water and then a soak in RO water w/ the garlic and selcon together.

Thanks.

tanker · 01/26/2007, 02:29 PM

I have used tap water to rinse frozen food for years. Never had a problem.

01/26/2007, 12:58 PM	#1
ralphie16 Moved On Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,550	Ringin Frozen Food with Tap ok? This might be going crazy but I am trying to reduce my phosphates and I read that rinzing frost foods is recommended. Can I use regular tap water to rinse? Or will the crap in the tap water stay in the food when I feed it?

01/26/2007, 01:00 PM	#2
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	toughie! Why not just use a cup of tank water? That should rinse good enough. __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

01/26/2007, 01:40 PM	#4
dcombs44 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 2,913	You could rinse with RO as well just to save yourself the trouble. __________________ Current Setup: 10 Gallon Skimmerless Zoanthid Tank Lighting: Single 175 Watt Metal Halide (14,000 K Hamilton Lamp) Filtration: 10 gallon sump/refugium and Phosban Reactor Return: Mag Drive 700 Controller: ReefKeeper Lite (Basic Version) Circulation: TBD Age of System: Build is in Progress

01/26/2007, 01:45 PM	#5
LobsterOfJustice Recovering Detritophobe Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Cary, NC Posts: 7,443	Rinsing with tap is fine. __________________ If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. I remember when zoanthids were called things like "green" and "orange" and not "reverse gorilla nipple." Current Tank Info: 180g reef with all the bells and whistles

01/26/2007, 01:49 PM	#6
Waxxiemann Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 2,364	I've always wondered this as well. I've been tripple soaking mine in RO before I feed. I usually start with a little RO and 2 or 3 drops of garlic then I move to another small dish or RO and Selcon and finally just a quick dip or 2 in yet another dish of RO. Needless to say, this is time consuming. I think I'll try to first rinse it really good in tap water and then a soak in RO water w/ the garlic and selcon together. Thanks. __________________ "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Albert Einstein

01/26/2007, 01:15 PM	#3
ralphie16 Moved On Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,550	I thought of that but Im trying to find out the cons of using tap water. Maybe I have to try and defrost some food with tap water and in another cup tank water and then run some test on them. Which tests would be most useful?

01/26/2007, 02:29 PM	#7
tanker Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: sf bay area Posts: 3,522	I have used tap water to rinse frozen food for years. Never had a problem.