Why Turn Off Pumps During Feeding?

[tinman]

My tank is on auto feed apex looks after all the dry stuff 3 times a day apex shuts it all down for a half an hour everyday why waste food when I manual feed mysis same deal shut it all off but the heaters of course I have backup pumps programmed just in case my main return doesn't start.

[jorjef]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

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

Call it coral fertilizer..You could just water your house plants and they would be fine.... but they will do better with fertilizer..

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by jorjef

Call it coral fertilizer..You could just water your house plants and they would be fine.... but they will do better with fertilizer..

isnt there enough stuff in the water for the corals to pick up and eat?

[jorjef]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

isnt there enough stuff in the water for the corals to pick up and eat?

I target feed mysis and don't want to leave it to chance that they get some if I just toss it in...which would lead to overfeeding the tank and like I said earlier I really don't have any scavengers.

[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

[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

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

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

in my opinion, because they either have non photosynthetic corals, and no matter what you read we cannot sustain enough natural food in the water colume, or in the case of normal corals, they simpliy do not have enough light for them to make there own food. I only gave my brain a treat once and a while and I stopped all togeather for the last 3 years.

Steve

[dc4]

I turn my mp40 to feeding mode so that my pipefish and mandarins get a fair shot of the food as they are slow as fook.