The problem with target feeding, is they get robbed very quickly. either a shrimp or a fish will pluck the food away until its not hungry anymore, but by that time the coral has been harassed so much it is no longer trying to eat. My ricordea take about 3 to 5 minutes to swallow something. A hammer, I've never had a hammer try to grab food, but my frogspawn does. A favia, once trained takes 2 minutes to eat a tiny pellet, which is pretty fast, but still too slow compared to my peppermint shrimps. Heh, the pellet could be 80% of the way inside the mouth and a shrimp will still pull it out.
Target feedings, 1 feed all your other animals first, then target feed, (my sun coral, which was really hard to keep, was fed, then covered with a plastic see though box, (that holds salad from the supermarket)). I would target feed whenever it looks plump and fully extended, otherwise it's not looking for food. Could be once a week, or 3 times a week. I feed during actinic only, and the animals are all trained to open up at that time.
Broadcast feeding, this is what I do grinding all my food up and dumping it all in. Everything eats this way, no one gets robbed.
