Why Turn Off Pumps During Feeding?

[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?

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by 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.

same here each head eats, all my brains eat, palys, my plates,frogs and hammers eats, zoas/palys etc...out of 50+pieces of coral i probably target feed over half of them

alot of my corals/clams and anemones get a powder/liquid mixture of food, that would get diluted too fast with full flow for me.

try feeding your corals and see the results for your self it works:P