feeding sps with or without flow?

[evolutionZ]

from the start of my reefing journey, i have been feeding reef roids & frozen rotifers by turning off my wavemakers and lightly blast the acros with the food. i leave the pumps off for about 10 - 15 mins before turning them on again, they usually slime up trying to consume the food.

but i was wondering, in the wild, there are no off switch. Am i doing this wrongly? or is there totally no need to turn anything off?

 

[Dapg8gt]

I think you can do whatever you choose honestly but I haven't noticed a difference spot feeding sps personally so I broadcast feed the whole tank instead. I do reefroids maybe once a week but I get way better responses from all coral with my homemade recipe of different fresh that gets fed to the fish.. It triggers almost all the sps to put out the longer single sweepers a few mins after it hits the water.

And imo when sps are sliming it's due to aggravation not feeding response fwiw.

 

[trueblackpercula]

Traget feeding is a much better way to feed SPS by shutting of the return pumps and power heads.

this thread will answer most if not all your questions.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2332173

Michael

 

[maikoa02]

Turning off the pumps and powerheads will keep the food in the tank and not in your sump giving your corals a better chance of feeding.

 

[scrapz]

turn off your return in your sump, give it a few mins to drain. Feed main tank with flow on for 30 min to a hr to utilize everything in the water.

If you have it running through your sump, you're just skimming everything away. If you shut your flow off, there is nothing moving the food to your corals.

 

[tripdad]

turn off your return in your sump, give it a few mins to drain. Feed main tank with flow on for 30 min to a hr to utilize everything in the water.

If you have it running through your sump, you're just skimming everything away. If you shut your flow off, there is nothing moving the food to your corals.

+1 to this

 

[LoJack]

turn off your return in your sump, give it a few mins to drain. Feed main tank with flow on for 30 min to a hr to utilize everything in the water.

If you have it running through your sump, you're just skimming everything away. If you shut your flow off, there is nothing moving the food to your corals.

+1

I kill the return pump and keep the MP40's cranked up "¦ its just a snowstorm of food for about half an hour "¦ turns into a high nutrient reef for about 30 minutes. Once I can't see bits of cyclops and NLS Micro floating "¦ the return pump gets turned back on so that the skimmer can take out the rest that isn't being consumed.