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Unread 05/06/2012, 06:47 AM   #43
Paul B
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I would like to add something about rinsing away liquids from frozen food.
A few weeks ago I went to Europe for a week and left a sitter for the tank. I gave her a cube of frozen food to put in the tank every day. She was to put it in a special feeder that I built that would thaw it in the tank and disperse it around.
I always thaw the food and rinse it before I put it in the tank, but I didn't want to put this person through this for the week.
When I came home, the substrait was almost covered in cyano. This was just from one week of doing this.
I had to add Chemi Clean to eliminate it.
My tank does not usually have hardly any cyano and I feel just this week of liquids from the food did it.
I do not test so I don't know if it raised the nitrates or anything else.


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