What is Your Favorite Feeding Tool?

[nickkohrn]

Whether you are generally feeding corals on the bottom of your tank, feeding finicky eaters, or just spot feeding, what tool do you like best to get the job done?

Do you prefer to keep your hands out of the tank while feeding, relying on an extended tool to reach your inhabitants?

 

[Jr'sReef]

I like long turkey basters or long bulb pipettes. Although I hate that the bulb falls off mine all the time and gotta reach in for the tube

 

[nickkohrn]

I like long turkey basters or long bulb pipettes. Although I hate that the bulb falls off mine all the time and gotta reach in for the tube

Ha ha yeah, I used to HATE that about the baster that I used!

 

[lapin]

Turkey basters. Big small long short plastic glass. What ever they have at the dollar store.

 

[FugeTown]

I’ve trained my fish to drop food on top of the corals so I would have to say my favorite feeding tooL has to be my fish ;Happy

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

We would use a Turkey baster for most coral and spot feeding pellets to our Mandarin gobies. we also had a coral feeding bottle that we used for fine particle food that we would mix with tank water. When we had a shark and lionfish we would use a acrylic feeding stick.

 

[FugeTown]

See , here he is feeding my Goni lol and you probably thought I was joking around.

 

[nickkohrn]

See , here he is feeding my Goni lol and you probably thought I was joking around.

Haha such a good housekeeper!

 

[FugeTown]

Haha such a good housekeeper!

Yea my clowns are my favorite fish in the tank even though they can be the biggest pains lol

 

[Flippers4pups]

Long blub pipette is what I use. Mostly to feed my pearly jawfish and Mandarin dragonet. Works well with LRS reef frenzy, brine shrimp.......

 

[joseph scott]

Whether you are generally feeding corals on the bottom of your tank, feeding finicky eaters, or just spot feeding, what tool do you like best to get the job done?

Do you prefer to keep your hands out of the tank while feeding, relying on an extended tool to reach your inhabitants?

Turkey blaster!

 

[P-Dub]

This

 

[nickkohrn]

This

I have all of the items for making one of those. I should give that a try. Thanks for sharing a photo of it!

 

[P-Dub]

I have all of the items for making one of those. I should give that a try. Thanks for sharing a photo of it!

Your welcome. You can use different sized syringes as well. I just upgraded to a 60 ml. More corals = more food so fewer refills now...

 

[Nick C]

Your welcome. You can use different sized syringes as well. I just upgraded to a 60 ml. More corals = more food so fewer refills now...

Is the end of that just acrylic thought you bought at lowes or something?

 

[Paul B]

 

[P-Dub]

Going into business?

 

[P-Dub]

Is the end of that just acrylic thought you bought at lowes or something?

Just standard rigid airline tubing you can get online or at your LFS. I got mine from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002APYRM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Crabby48]

They don’t sell them anymore do they? I looked and could find them

 

[Paul B]

That's because I stopped making them Those feeders were built out of laboratory grade rubber bulbs and acrylic tubing and were not real cheap to build, then with the shipping the profit margin wasn't enough for me to spend a few days making them. Besides that, my acrylic tube manufacturer went out of business and I would have to look to China and I don't do China. I have 5 or 6 for myself and have a little material to make a few more.