"DerbyDad03" wrote in message
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On Mar 18, 5:20 am, wrote:
I have a fridge\freezer with an ice maker. The automatic ice maker
storage got high and a single ice cube got
placed behind the large storage tray, it has sat there for a while,
but started getting smaller, now it is
almost nothing.

What causes this cube to get smaller in an environment that appears to
stay the same?

What causes this cube to get smaller in an environment that
appears to stay the same?

Ice Mites - Small, almost invisible creatures with constant teething
problems. By eating the stray ice cubes that end up outside of the
storage bin, they keep their gums numb. It's a survival instinct - if
they didn't numb their gums, there would be this constant moaning from
your freezer, resulting in detection and probable elimination.

In desparate cases, when the ice cubes are removed by the human on a
regular basis (resulting in few, if any, strays) the mites have been
known to use their ice grabbing tenticles to create a small hole in
freezer bags, allowing in just enough moisture for frost to form on
the stored object. This gives them another source of ice to numb their
gums.

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They don't want us to know about this mite issue.

They. You know who they are. Them. The same "they" who own the patent for an
engine that develops 400 horsepower and gets 85 mpg.