A Turkey Baster: How important is it in reefing?

[revhtree Verified Admin]

It's not made for reefing but it has many benefits for those of us keeping aquariums. It feeds, blasts, sucks and more but is it as important to you as it is others? It's cheap enough but are there better tools for the tasks that the turkey baster can accomplish? Who even cares? HA! I hope you do! Let's talk about it today!

1. Do you own a turkey baster that you use for reef aquarium tasks?

2. What types of tasks do you use a turkey baster for in reefing?

 

[Waters]

Definitely have and use one all the time to blow detritus out of the holes and crevices in the rock. Amazing how much junk collects there to feed algae.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Maintenance and feeding

 

[N.Sreefer]

1.Yes

2. Feeding defrosted frozen food, cleaning rocks frags equipment, and keeping aggressive fish away from my hands while I scrape the glass.

 

[Paul B]

Oh, I don't know. Whats a turkey baster?

 

[BanZI29]

I use my baster to blow off any sand that critters get on my corals and rock. for feeding, I got large syringes off of amazon. it make it easier for me to target feed exactly what I want each coral to have.

 

[WVNed]

When I want to blow off my rocks I use a Maxijet 1200 with a short piece of pipe on it.

 

[duesmortem]

I use a graduated pipette #ChemLabLife

 

[sp1187]

feeding fish and corals.

 

[Dania]

I use one to clean out my 5 gallon tank since my vacuum is for 10 to 20 gallons but all my tanks are fresh water.

 

[dbowman5]

i use the feeding pipette, it work great. wide point with an extension to make it 24 inches

HL01988	V2O AQUARIUM FOODS CORAL FEEDER II EXTENSION	1	$4.49
HL01982	V2O AQUARIUM FOODS FINE POINT CORAL FEEDER II	1	$8.99

bought it in March 2020 from Marine depot.
then added the wide point in Nov.

HL01984

V2O Aquarium Foods Wide Point Coral Feeder II

1

$6.29

not on the BRS inventory (sigh)

 

[rusgum]

I use it to feed corals and blow rocks.

 

[Goaway]

1. Do you own a turkey baster that you use for reef aquarium tasks?

Yes. Everyone should have a form of one. And maybe 3 or 4.

2. What types of tasks do you use a turkey baster for in reefing?

Mostly feeding. Sometimes I use it to grab a small coral frag. Weird? Well it's a delicate tool and helped me in my last application of getting a goniopora bud off the sand. I did not take pictures of that. But I did get the bud glued to a rock. BTW it's very small. A good photo is very difficult to take of it.

 

[littlebeard]

I use it all the time. I'm also completely annoyed when my wife borrows it for her Betta fish tank and doesn't tell me. The time wasted looking for a $2 piece of plastic!

 

[happyhourhero]

I clean up after my Court Jester goby often

 

[reeftivo]

i use mine a couple times a week to stir up hard to reach areas in sump, spot feed, move a little sand around that my clown "who thinks it's a Goby" throws all around, and generally blast off mulm from LR on occasion.

 

[Garf]

Yep, and cable tie the rubber bulb on to get some real pressure behind it

 

[rtparty]

You're not a reefer until you have 7-8 items from the kitchen

 

[Jonddk]

All the time to feed my sun corals.

 

[Jedi1199]

I use mine to both clean off sediment on rocks and stuff but also when acclimating new fish to the tanks...