Why Turn Off Pumps During Feeding?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

this leads me to my next question..... why do people target feed corals?

if it has a mouth....feed it:P


your corals will benefit from feedings(lps especially), and its even more true for anemones like carpets and lta's

[reefwars]

my suncorals need to be fed to the individual polyps daily/twice a day unless i was to pollute my tank they wont get enough food from the water coloumn:P

[tang daddy]

I turn my vortechs down to 10% for half hr during feed mode and not completely off, the food blows around for 1/2 hr and uneaten food hits the sump to be skimmed out or the crabs find it.

[bignose]

I don't turn my pumps off when I feed my tank which is a sps tank. But if I was feeding a lps tank I would turn the pumps off and target feed each coral, I think it would be a waste of food with the pumps on.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Mandosh

You can't get stung in a wetsuit.

Correction;
Your covered parts can't get stung
Diving with my birth mom and her friends when I was just barely a teen made me nervous 'cause they stuck their hands into all kinda dark places

[Mandosh]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Correction;
Your covered parts can't get stung
Diving with my birth mom and her friends when I was just barely a teen made me nervous 'cause they stuck their hands into all kinda dark places

Fair enough

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Diving with my birth mom and her friends when I was just barely a teen made me nervous 'cause they stuck their hands into all kinda dark places

Maybe it had something to do with the movie 'The Deep' having just come out

[chandigz]

I feed my LPS and NPS 4 to 6 cubes frozen. Feed mode for 10 mins. This allows the corals to grab onto the food easier. it allows me to make sure each polyp gets a good amount of food. When the pumps turn onto full again anything that isn't being held by a coral blows into the water column for the fish. This way the coral get most of the food and only about one cube worth goes to the fish. If I didn't turn on feed mode more then half the food enters the water column and a lot goes uneaten.

[daniella3d]

any logical reason? there are plenty of logical reasons. I stop my pumps so that my anemone have the time to eat the food before the flow blow everything off...I cut the pumps so that I can feed my dendros before the strong flow take the food off of them...I cut the pumps so that my zoanthids, palythoas and ricordeas have time to swollow the food before they get blasted...and finally I cut the pumps so that the little live white worms that I feed my copperband do not get spread everywhere and stuck in every bit of crevasse in my totoka liverock...

Originally Posted by MarkoD

I've been seeing people do this and cant understand why.

anyone know the logical reason behind this?

[daniella3d]

To make sure they get enough food, obviously. I target feed my dendros, each little head. I target feed my anemones, and my duncans.

If I don't turn the pump off the ricordeas cannot swallow any food as it get blow off rather fast. Ricordeas take forever to eat and swallow food, and oftent I have to cut the pump for 30 to 40 minutes until they finish eating. They do grow much faster and multiply this way a lot faster when targed feeding them.

Dendros need food as they are not photosynthetic. Thinking they will manage to grab bits of food for each head is nonsense unless you pollute your tank with so much food that it is saturated with bits of food. I don't want to pollute my tank that way.

Originally Posted by MarkoD

this leads me to my next question..... why do people target feed corals?