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    Terrible!! Have been keeping fishes for almost 2 years.

    and this was the worst shocking experience i had.

    a mistake on my part for putting aside my used container of Tetraflakes for many months. (nothing wrong with the brand, its a good brand )


    my larger 1000ml container was also stale, and decolorized. with thousands of those things crawling around it. did not dare open it again.


    Lesson learnt:
    Check your fish food often, if you have a number of them sitting in the corner of your cabinet!









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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    oh my goodness! I had a similar experience. I bought a tub of pellets but I hardly used it as I had another tub. When I opened it, all these white tiny little crawlies came out. uugh!

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Are these things edible by the fishes?

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by cdckjn View Post
    Are these things edible by the fishes?
    haha that thought crossed my mind afterwards, maybe someone can give that a try. probably could be a substitute for bloodworms.

    but when i opened the 1000ml container these tiny bugs just start crawling out and onto my hands.. was a terrible mess

    harder to managed than bloodworms i guess, where you can just pour the worms in and let them sink..

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    i think the fishes would love these!

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Uhh! I had the same problem recently and its not like a big can that I kept for a long time, its just a small pack of hikari algae wafer that I hv been feeding daily, that is why I was surprised when I see these crawlies. I guess I must have been feeding the pleco these wafer with the crawlies without even knowing. I'm not sure if eating this wafer with crawlies causes the pleco to have such huge belly.

    Now, I take out just a few pieces and keep the rest in the refrigerator.

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    my food had white bugs just yesterday

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    Usually even before the food have these bugs, my fishes would have shown signs of the food being not in good condition. Usually when i feed my small fishes like boraras, clown killies etc one or two of them would have dropsey from eating the soon to be spoilt food. From there i'll look inside the container or in my case the zip-lock bag of Hikari Miro food for these bugs and usually they haven't even show any signs of these bugs yet but i'll know that the food is not very good already cos the food will look a bit clumpy.

    Usually the bigger fishes don't have dropsey problems even when there're a little of these bugs but they normally will have "ichy body" when comsuming food about to spoil and also they won't eat the food as readily as in they'll tend to spit out the food regularly as compared to eating it without much spitting. These are some of the tell-tale signs of food not in good condition.

    I'm not sure whether these bugs can be fed to the fishes a not but i'll advice against it cos these bugs feed on the spoilt food, which means you're indirectly feeding your fishes spoilt food.
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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    great tips on spotting the food before turning bad!

    i realize you also gave more advice on fish food on another thread couple years ago
    http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...food-turns-bad


    guess i shouldn't have bought a 1000ml container..

    maybe transferring to air-tight container could preserve it a little longer ^^

    anyway thanks for the tips!!

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Yes, great tips, thanks for sharing.

    What I do now is, take out a small portion of the food and leave the rest in the refrigerator until the next refilling.

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by hck View Post
    Yes, great tips, thanks for sharing.

    What I do now is, take out a small portion of the food and leave the rest in the refrigerator until the next refilling.
    Not a good idea cos if you refill from the main one that is kept in the fridge to another container, the food in the refilled container that is left outside will spoil even faster due to condensation. Maybe it's better to take out the refrigerated amount to be fed to the fishes and feed from there instead of having a refill. Another option will be to keep the refill container and the main one in a dry place away from the tanks which is what i've been doing.
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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    If you do use an air-tight container to house the dry food tubs etc, please make sure you have a bag of desiccant in there to aid in absorbing moisture. In our climate, dry food spoils really fast. I usually have a smell of the food before I feed the fish. If it is discolored and has a weird smell, or the food, especially flake food, clump together... don't use it anymore. In many cases, what kills our fish is not diseases, but negligence in terms of ensuring that they get fresh food.

    @roxs:

    Ok now that is just gross. They seem to be larvae of some sort, probably from eggs laid during post-production and packing of the food. Good thing you took pictures.
    Fish.. Simply Irresistable
    Back to Killies... slowly.

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    ah bag of desiccant! Good point, well noted!

    @stormhawk
    yes so true. The importance of fresh fish food, is rarely stressed.

    Found a nice site that concisely states the basic important points in storing dried food. (cool, dark, dry and airtight)

    wow, never would have thought my mini transparent container could suffer photodegration. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/649015

    Must faster use blacktape!

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Anybody know where to buy dessicants? Hv been looking around, but can't find any, search website, also to no avail.

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    I had experience same thing before . On my tetrabits...Gross.Just open it, and straight away dump it out.

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Looks like grain/flour mites to me. Very common to find in dried food stuff as they usually mix in some starch or flour and these things ALWAYS have dorment eggs in there somewhere. The only condition they need is a wet and humid one, similar to the dust mites on our beds.

    I once saw a grain store, where we keep rodent food for the lab mice and rats, very badly infested with these things as the aircon was faulty and drawing in wet air. The entire room was fully covered with these things...wall to wall, floor to ceiling and I can see waves and waves dropping off the edges of the grainbags like lemmings jumping off the cliff

    Lets just say we all took a very long shower after coming out...

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Any idea if it is safe to use silica gel bought from camera shop, in fish food? I was thinking of adding some silica gel into ziplock bag, prick a few hole, but is it safe? since I can't find dessicant. I am not a chemist person, not sure if got any adverse chemical problem.

    Quote Originally Posted by stormhawk View Post
    If you do use an air-tight container to house the dry food tubs etc, please make sure you have a bag of desiccant in there to aid in absorbing moisture. In our climate, dry food spoils really fast. I usually have a smell of the food before I feed the fish. If it is discolored and has a weird smell, or the food, especially flake food, clump together... don't use it anymore. In many cases, what kills our fish is not diseases, but negligence in terms of ensuring that they get fresh food.

    @roxs:

    Ok now that is just gross. They seem to be larvae of some sort, probably from eggs laid during post-production and packing of the food. Good thing you took pictures.

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Silica gel is a dessicant...

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    But I understand there's something like food grade dessicant, so it is still safe to use silica gel from camera shop? If so, then it will be so convenient.

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    Re: !!Check your unused fish food Regularly!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by hck View Post
    Any idea if it is safe to use silica gel bought from camera shop, in fish food? I was thinking of adding some silica gel into ziplock bag, prick a few hole, but is it safe? since I can't find dessicant. I am not a chemist person, not sure if got any adverse chemical problem.
    I think your idea is workable.

    As long there is no contact between the silca gel and the fish food,it will be okay. Alternately, anyone tried the age old method of sunning / airing the fish food on a tray and then returning to the container?
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