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    Fish food and small tank

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    Hi guys. I am just wondering for those with small tanks like 30cm cube, do you always have food leftover that expires? I try to use my food within the expiry dates stated on the packaging but never seem to be able to finish them before the expiry dates (eg. NLS fish food). Any suggestions or am I feeding too little haha.

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    Re: Fish food and small tank

    Its normal... i have 3 x 2ft tanks (along with a few smaller tanks along the way), all running with fishes and i'm still not able to use up a small container of NLS micro pellets before it expires, so what i did was just repack portions into small zip-lock bags and passed them to friends (and even they can't even finish using up the small packs either).

    I guess the alternative is to just buy the smallest container of food with the longest expiry date.
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    Re: Fish food and small tank

    If the container is opened every day, the remaining food will be exposed to air and moisture, and so will turn bad in a few weeks. What I do is go and buy a couple of those small transparent plastic containers which people use for makeup. They are small and air-tight, so when you buy a new canister of fish food, you can transfer it into the smaller containers. Make sure the reserve container is full to the lid so there's little air. Then keep it while you use the second or third plastic container of food for feeding. This way, you will not be exposing the whole lot of the food to air every time you feed. But even this measure is just to minimise the exposure to air and not a ideal solution. You can also put a new bag of silica gel in the food every week.

    Anyway, fish can detect stale food, and when they are not eager to gulp down the food or spit it out, it is a sign that the food is stale. If you don't like stale food, neither do fish. And they can get food poisoning too. This is a very important aspect of fish-keeping, but somehow, no one seems to be interested in it.
    LIFE IS UNBEARABLE WITHOUT A FISH TANK!!!

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