Feeding regimes

[Bent17]

Curious to know what your regime is when feeding your fish.

Do you:

Pause return pump and feed whilst leaving wave makers on
Pause Return pump and put wake makers on feed mode
Pause Return pump, put wave makers on feed mode and turn off skimmer?

Your opinions are as always very vaulable

 

[mtraylor]

I used to have 4 tunze pumps on one controller. I would always hit feed button before feeding. Now I have 2 mp40 & 2 redsead 45's on display Soni don't hit anything. I just feed them. Both ways work

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

everything stays on for me.

 

[The_Skrimp]

when feeding fish I turn power heads to feed mode but leave the return on. Same if I’m feeding any kind of liquid food to coral like aminos. If I’m feeding reef roids or pellets to coral, I spot feed with a syringe and turn everything off including return pump.

Feed mode runs for about 15 mins when feeding fish but more like an hour when feeding coral (although I usually turn the return back on after about 20 mins).

 

[mtraylor]

Oh yeah. I never turn off my return. Was only turning off tunze internalnpumps when I was using them

 

[Blue Cheese]

Everything off for 5 minutes,wave pumps come on for 5 minutes,return comes on 5 minutes later then skimmer 5 minutes later,some of my fish prefer chasing the food

 

[Bent17]

Everything off for 5 minutes,wave pumps come on for 5 minutes,return comes on 5 minutes later then skimmer 5 minutes later,some of my fish prefer chasing the food

Smart plugs?

 

[Blue Cheese]

Smart plugs?

Apex

 

[gpd124]

I have always turned off my return pump and left the power heads on. Usually after 5 or 10 mins, I turn everything back on.