Why Turn Off Pumps During Feeding?

[asylumdown]

I have to get up on a ladder to get in the top of my new tank. *sigh* no non-photosynthetic-target-feeding-required-corals for me in this build me thinks.

On the plus side, I'll be less inclined to spend gratuitously excessive hours hand feeding my LPS's every night. I'm sure they threw up most of what I used to over feed them anyway, and I sure would have had far more productive evenings of school work as I finished my last degree.

[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?