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I finally got me 3 kgs of Hikari from the US of A, replenishing already depleted precious stocks for the clowns. Now the problem is once I open the packets, how do I store the fish food.

Last time I took out a few pellets to send to a friend and put them in a bottle, and the pellets gof fungused. Dont want to lose any to fungus for sure.

I have some sinking wafers, algae wafers and carnivore pellets, a kilo of each. I guess I am going to need air tight bags or are the Hikari zip pouches for 2.2 lbs good enough?

Also, anybody frozen fish food, I think I heard Babel mention it once. I am not sure if I can take some out and put it in a bottle after freezing, or if I need to reach for the freezer each day and take a few wafers out. Anybody any experience with specifically freezing wafers and carnivore pellets.

Regards,
Clowny

Hi,
When I feed frozen foods such as brine shrimp, I do one
of two things. I smack the package sharply on the counter
and take one of the small shards and place it in a small
glass of tank water where it melts and then I pour it into
the tank.
Or I cut open the top of the plastic bag, and swirl it
around in the tank till desired amount thaws and falls
off (the fish love this). When I've fed the desire amount
I then fold the plastic back on itself and place it in a
zip lock bag and back into the freezer.

Some of those foods are meant to be refrigerated, and
others frozen. I'd keep what was needed for, say a week,
thawed, and refrigerated in the coldest part of the fridge
and the rest, I'd leave in the freezer. I'd use the double
zip, zip lock bags and squeeze as much air out of them as
I could with each closing.

Frank


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Never done it with fish food but we get all our other animal food in bulk. Guinea pig pellets, degu, gerbil, cat, dog, horse... If we aren't going to use the food up in less than 4months we stick it in the big freezer in the garage. Preferably with as many packages kept unopened as possible or using small plastic containers with air tight lids. Then take out 1-2months worth of food and use that daily. I probably should have thought to do it with some of the fish food I've bought since I just had to go through it out and throw away a bunch that probably would have lasted many months longer if I'd frozen it. I still try not to keep anything around for more than a year. After that even if kept frozen the vitamins have begun to break down and there is less nutrition in the food.

If the jar they were stored in was perfecty dry and sealed correctly and stored in a dry place I find it hard to see how fungus got into them. All my pellets foods are stored in tight fitting plastic containers under the fish tank behind closed doors.

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Ah, I think you havent heard of the Indian monsoon, and humidity in my city is usually over 95% and we are very close to the sea so everything that is left unused for even a short while funguses. I have pickles that are kept in the fridge that fungus and therefore this question, the winter (I dont know if 28 degrees C qualifies as winter) and summer (between 35 - 40 degrees C) should go by easily, but it's the monsoon that is going to be trouble.