Beginners guide: How to feed frozen fish food to your fish?

How do I feed and prepare frozen foods? This is step by step guide on how to feed frozen bloodworms, artemia (brine shrimp) or glassworms to your fish.
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[@AquascapingCube]

How do I feed and prepare frozen foods? This is step by step guide on how to feed frozen bloodworms, artemia (brine shrimp) or glassworms to your fish.

[@Scalez_YT]

Best fish owner ever. This is the only fish-keeper who seasons his fish's food. 😂

[@AquascapingCube]

Haha, thanks ;)

[@thomaspethic6220]

I never would think one could add minced garlic into the mini-blood worms mix! 🐟 🐠 🎣 🐡 🍥 🐟

[@lemonlizard1]

When I first got my mahachai betta he was just a baby and only ate frozen food. I learnt a couple of things over the few months he only ate frozen (now he takes flakes, still working on pellets). 1. Oftentimes, especially for little fish like bettas, defrosting a full frozen cube is a waste. I always take the cube out of the freezer, cut it into a couple of small pieces and put it into a container. Most frozen foods are easy to cut, but worms are hard. Bloodworms were the most difficult to evenly cut. 2. I like to keep the cubes I cut in a plastic divider container. It has worked the best so far 3. Feeding mostly frozen food is perfectly fine, as long as there is variety! I made sure to offer tubifex worms, brine shrimp, baby brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, bloodworms, and cyclops. Brine shrimp were the fish's favourite, then bloodworms, then mysis shrimp, then baby brine shrimp, tubifex worms, and lastly cyclops. 4. As you mentioned, some frozen food can cause bloating. The best way to make sure the food doesn't cause bloat is to check the protein level. Food high in protein is more likely to cause bloating. 5. If you're planning on feeding frozen regularly, make sure to know what is more/less healthy. Baby brine shrimp, cyclops and daphnia are super healthy. Bloodworms, mysis shrimp, tubifex worms come second and adult brine shrimp should be fed as a treat Hopefully this is a bit helpful, sorry for the huge paragraph!

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! Great comment! And don't be sorry for sharing great information with others :) I really appreciate that!

[@aubreymaynard7504]

I have a male betta and I’m interested in feeding him frozen foods. I was wondering how many worms i should feed him at 1 time?

[@lemonlizard1]

@@aubreymaynard7504 there's no specific amount. I would recommend starting with feeding around 3-5 worms. If they're regular sized bloodworms, I would probably do like 2-3, if they're around the same size as mini bloodworms I would likely feed closer to 4-5

[@thomaspethic6220]

Thank you for the garlic info!!!

[@audrameyer9558]

Fantastic footage 🤩 Thanks so much!

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@trak957]

hi, matt another great video and I love how you explain things and give us great advice, have a great day :)

[@AquascapingCube]

Hello Tracy. Thanks so much! I'm very happy that you enjoy it!

[@i_am_slab]

this was very informative, thank you!

[@AquascapingCube]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@susieq8924]

Thank you very helpful video …..nice and to the point!

[@AquascapingCube]

Glad it was helpful!

[@patrickdijkman8974]

Nice1, got some good tips from this!

[@AquascapingCube]

Great! Glad it was helpful!

[@lostlilypad]

I just recently started keeping african dwarf frogs and panda corys and I've been avoiding frozen food bc I wasn't sure how it worked. This was very easy to follow and I can finally try the mysis shrimp. Thanks! 😊

[@AquascapingCube]

Thanks for your comment! Glad I could help! :)

[@mockfanatik]

My ADF love the mysis shrimp! I feed them with a pair of long tweezers.

[@gomzify]

Wow...thanks a ton ... This helps a lot ...

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! Glad to hear that :)

[@nagendramurthy7054]

Great and useful info.....Liked and Subscribed.........A big THANKS from India.

[@AquascapingCube]

Awesome, thank you!

[@MikZaimi-bx4hf]

good job!

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@_invertico_]

I am a new subscriber and this video is really good! I cut the frozen cubes into small pieces and feed them but your methods are also good for people who keep many fish and aquariums.Keep up the great work 😁

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you and welcome to the channel! I'm glad you liked it!

[@_invertico_]

@@AquascapingCube your channel is very educational and I also gave a shout out to your channel on my community tab

[@AquascapingCube]

@@_invertico_ Thank you! I really appreciate that!

[@rudy6222]

Get the gourmet feeder. It works good

[@ragingcalmness7815]

Good video man, I only tried bloodworms recently but my population is very small so I quickly figured I can barely give 1/4th of the cube each time or they remain in the tank. I personally am really not worried about spoiling because my tank has constant stupid addictions on my part, keeping a very high population of nitrifying bacteria alive at all times. But I am considering to get live grindal worms started because some guy that has done this for years said you can pump up any specific nutrients into them to target specific fish needs, unlike microworms and white worms that are also more picky with temps. Any thoughts on that? Keep up the great videos 👍

[@AquascapingCube]

Thanks for all your comments! YES! Grindal worms are great and I'm planning to have a colony myself :) I'm just looking for a good source to start my project. When I do - expect a video about this :P

[@ragingcalmness7815]

yeah, gotta figure out those tricks on how to get them going for easy collecting 😅 I am still working on starting a rotifer culture without green water but so far I am failing I think @@AquascapingCube

[@meatpopsicle01]

A sharp knife cuts it realy well

[@gohbender]

What are your thoughts on thawing and keeping the thawed food in the refrigerator for a few days? I do this with daphnia and cyclops they keep for about 4 or 5 days before the smell goes off, I'm just wondering if you would encourage or discourage this method?

[@AquascapingCube]

Hi. I think that the risk is quite small. 5 days seems quite long to me, but I think that 2 max 3 day could be ok. But I haven't tried this myself, so have no experience. I guess it works for you, so why not? :)

[@jjxtwo1]

I agree that frozen foods are a really great addition to our fishes diet. I like to get frozen foods that come in individually sealed cups. For me it is easier to handle and usually no more expensive. But the foil sealed like you showed are great too. I use a type of coral feeder that is very long to get thawed frozen food down to the bottom of the tank. Very often my other fish will eat the whole cube before it gets to the bottom. That way I can be sure my Kuhli Loaches get their full share of the food. I enjoyed the video.

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! Good idea with this coral feeder! I have this problem when feeding Corydoras, they sometimes have a hard time competing for the food.

[@marcelorodrigues1683]

You didn't solve the small tank problem. It's still too much food :(

[@jjxtwo1]

@@marcelorodrigues1683 Use a smaller portion. Read the comments on your this video. There are many good suggestions on how to do that.

[@jordanteo]

Really informative video! But what do you do with the remaining food in the food dish when its not used, do you freeze it again?

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! No, I never freeze food that was already defrosted. It's just not worth to risk my fish to save few cents, unfrozen food spoils very quickly. Besides I have 7 tanks running right now and I have no problem with using everything :D

[@lmSheep]

Hello! May I ask what is your accent? I genuinely love it. Feel free to ignore my question if you dont want to answer! It is a genuine compliment 💛

[@AquascapingCube]

Hi! Haha, It's cool you like it. I'm from Poland, so this is probably what you hear :)

[@lmSheep]

@@AquascapingCube so cool!! 😃

[@urbansk8r231]

I saw one youtuber put variety of different frozen foods in same squeeze bottle. Left overs he put back in fridge while unopen ones in freezer. What's your opinion on that?

[@AquascapingCube]

I know that some people do that. But for me it's not worth it. You take big risk of spoiling the food and the benefits are very small. Depending on the type, frozen food can go bad in 2-3 hours and starts to smell very fast. So I don't see the point because you save few cents, and might spoil the water in your tank and even harm the fish. When I have some leftovers - I just throw them out.

[@blake1948]

What if you let the cubes defrost enough to cut them into correct portion sizes, and then froze them again? Could possibly do a whole bunch at once and have some easy way to feed

[@AquascapingCube]

I don't do that because I don't want to freez anything that was previously unfrozen. But this is just me, I know that people do it and it's working well for them. Besides I have a lot of tanks, and it's easy for me to use entire cube at once ;)

[@blake1948]

​@@AquascapingCube Makes sense, thanks. I will have to figure out what works best for me ! Appreciate your videos, cheers

[@karenteasdale7341]

This happed to me. I defrosted one cube then split into ice cube trays .

[@izzo3268]

I had a question, my frozen brine shrimp cubes were in my freezer and the freezer messed up, will they still be good to give my fish they stayed cold but just thawed

[@AquascapingCube]

Hmmm, honestly? I wouldn't use it anymore. Thawed food goes bad very fast so you would risk a lot, but could gain very little.

[@bruhmoment879]

I fear worm-like creatures but still an informative video,cheers

[@AquascapingCube]

Haha :) Thanks!

[@zodiak2461]

is washing it with tap water safe? im worried about chloramines in the tap

[@AquascapingCube]

Hi! Yes, I do it for years and know a lot of people that do the same. Never had a single problem. The amount of water that will be used is very small - so no worries. Of course it depends on the quality of water you have but I cannot imagine that it will harm your fish.

[@LilDirt12]

Awesome video. Thank you for taking time to make this video. I'm nude frozen foods so this was perfect for me.

[@AquascapingCube]

Great! I'm glad it was helpful!

[@bradleyburdett5361]

By a feed tube

[@SGScaper]

An Altum fish expert tild me that never feed bloodworms to Altums fish. They get sick fast.

[@AquascapingCube]

Yes, this is true. Bloodworms are good for Corys, but can be very bad for Altums, Discus and Apistos.

[@D.S.-uy7rb]

I like how you covered all aspects of the frozen food. What I would personally add to this manual is to turn off your filtration system when feeding. This way, you'll prevent the chance of the filter sucking up food leftover. And the next thing is, I would use tank water to defrost the food. As a golden rule, I would stay away from tap water as much as possible, when handling all kinds of maintenance or feeding.

[@AquascapingCube]

Thank you! Yes, you have very good points. Especially about the filter.

[@soulphish48]

Are the bloodworms alive after defrosting?! They can survive that? Wow!

[@stanleysutandy3991]

No😂 dead already but still fresh

[@pn-l1403]

The swimming dead... 💀

[@blackstar160686]

I’m the only one who has my wife complaining about keeping the frozen food in the freezer, as if the worms will escape SMH!

[@AquascapingCube]

No, you not the only one ;)

[@kotface3919]

I almost read: "How to feed frozen fish to your fish." ☠

[@AquascapingCube]

Lol :D

[@jtienson]

Needs more cumin.

[@Kiruthika236]

Sir your numbers

[@MarieM-PinkArt]

What do you feed your shrimp?

[@AquascapingCube]

Hikari Shrimp Cuisine, Tropical Shrimp Sticks, Catappa Leaves, Oak Leaves and Sometimes Carrots (helps with colors for red and orange)