Steps to Process the spinach for CRS

[nicken]

Hi ,

i'm like to find out , what do i need to do in order to process the spinach for feeding my CRS.

should i boil it ? or just wash and drop into the tank in small pieces ?

Thank you

[eviltrain]

buy organic spinach, wash organic spinach with bits of salt, blanch the spinach in boiling water. leave it to cools before adding into tank.

[nicken]

buy organic spinach, wash organic spinach with bits of salt, blanch the spinach in boiling water. leave it to cools before adding into tank.

will Blanching cook the veg or remove the vitamins or minerals from the spinach

[eviltrain]

i'm not sure about that but blanching will soften the leaves and kills unwanted bacterial on the leaves.

[bluebubbles]

I simply pluck a whole leave and throw into boiling water. Use chopstick to check if it turned soft after 5 minutes. Than take out to cool before tearing them into small pieces. Use toothpick to poke hole so that it sinks. Alternatively, I get a tweezer to hold it until my shrimps grab it down and a whole lots of them will start tearing and eating until the leave turned fine skeleton.

[Fuzzy]

Quick blanching will definitely reduce the nutritional value of vegetables slightly, but it's safer in the long run.

I treat my frozen peas / spinach the same way.

- Place veggies in a cup or bowl, pour boiling hot water in
- Remove the veggies after 30 seconds,
- Toss straight into the tank.

[Shaihulud]

Blanching spinach destroys oxalic acid found in spinach leaves, Oxalic acid is mildly poisonous to us and propably to shrimp too.

[Fuzzy]

Oxalic acid inhibits calcium absorption so yeah I think it might present problems in the long run.
The natural concentrations of oxalic acid in spinach are low enough that I don't think it presents a serious toxicity problem though.

I've tried feeding my CRS and Cherry/Sakuras with kang kong leaves also, mine seem to prefer kang kong over spinach.

[nicken]

thanks for the advice bros