BOB_I please respond

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Originally Posted by martym

reef_raf, how often do you feed your corals? Do you target feed or tank feed?

I feed the tank some GP or baby brine when I think of it. Unfortunately I don't think about it much. I have fed the tank probably 4 times this year. In fact, I just fed today and the corals were gobbling up the food.
If you look back thru the reefkeeping.com site, you'll see Eric has a 4 part series on coral feeding. DOM was only a small part of what they eat. I also know of some really awesome tanks hat have never fed the corals anything but light. IMO, a skimmer is something essential to keeping a reef. Some will disagree, and that's fine. I dump about 3 litres of sludge out of my collection container every 2 weeks. I would hate to be a fish swimming around in that sewage. You can save a lot of money not buying a skimmer, but I believe it's false economy to do so.