skimmer on or off when feeding phyto

[hnguyen]

do you guys turn off your skimmers or leave them on when your feeding phyto? I hear that regular turning on and off your skimmer could affect its performance?

 

[hnguyen]

It depends on how I feel, sometimes I just dump it in there and other times I target feed with a 36" feeding pipitte.

 

[drew9393]

Is this the best way to feed all corals ??? I have a foot tall finger leather and there is no way I can do that.. And so how much food do u feed. I usually pull up a mixture in a 10 cc and feed the entire tank with 10 cc just by squirting a little bit up current from each coral.

 

[hnguyen]

dawgdude;563630 wrote: If you are not covering the coral and enclosing the coral in a cloud of phyto then odds are it's getting very very little if any. If you just dump it in then you might as well leave the skimmer on because none of it will really be consumed by the corals due to dilution.

If thats the case than should I turn my power heads off when I feed them Phyto? Thats the only way I can see how I'm able to product a cloud oh Phyto around my coral. I think I can set a feeding time on my reef keeper 2 and feed both my fish and coral at the same time.

 

[hnguyen]

well I guess after I'm done with this bottle of phyto imma stop buying more than. No point in feeding them if it does them no good. I agree with you though dawgdude. If they can't benefit from the phyto than its just a waste of money and I'm just making my water dirtier.

 

[rskillz]

I turn it off for about hour when feeding. Or else it just sucks it all out.

I also keep pumps off for 15 minutes or so.