How to freeze feeder fish?

[CrazyHedgehog]

I find buying them already frozen works nicely. I get neat 1kg packs of individually quick frozen smelt which arrive frozen and delivered to my door. OK, to justify the shipping cost I need to buy several kilos of smelt with a few hundred pinkies... .

(sorry to hijack thread)
but Chris where do you get your smelt from? I breed my own mice by the hundreds, so pinkies are not a problem

[chris-uk]

When I said "I don't like seen things die", I meant by physically seeing it die; if I put the fish in the freezer, I don't have to watch it die.

Putting a fish in a domestic freezer whilst alive would be a cruel way to kill it. As would taking it out of water and leaving it to suffocate. The humane method to dispatch a fish is to stick something into the brain and wiggle it around (called pithing the brain). If you can't dispatch an animal humanely, buy it dead.

(sorry to hijack thread)
but Chris where do you get your smelt from? I breed my own mice by the hundreds, so pinkies are not a problem

Kiezebrink - they do smelt in 1kg bags for £3. Postage is something close to £20 though, hence I order hundreds of pinkies to justify the cost, but actually the smelt I used before that came from aquatics shops and cost £2-3 for 100g in a blister pack so even with the postage buying 3kg would be significantly cheaper than getting it locally.