Anybody hear of this?

[islandgirl]

Somebody at my lfs told me that I need to cut off my filter when I feed my fish for about an hour. Is this true? I feed them a mix of frozen Formula One food, flake, pellet, with zoecon and vitamin C.

 

[poiboy]

The only thing I turn off is the skimmer and UV only when I dose DT's 1hr. L8TR

 

[infalable]

I have heard people suggest this. Their reasoning was that the food gets sucked up in the intake. For what its worth.

 

[elan]

i used to turn off my filters, but have since taken out almost all my sponge filters so i dont have to worry about it anymore.

 

[lesleybird]

Hi,
I have only heard about this when feeding filter feeders like corals little tiny partical foods. I would not do this for fish unless the filter intake was sucking out the food faster than they could eat it......and then for only 5 or 10 minutes, not an hour!
Lesley

 

[sterling]

I only turn off sump and protein skimmer when feeding the filter feeders DT's etc.

 

[elan]

yes.. turning off a skimmer is probably a good idea..
but i just dont understand why you would turn off the water circulation to feed your corals phytoplancton.... they feed by filtering the water... so they need water movement..
i do turn it off about once every week or two... just to feed my plate coral a small shrimp.. (it will just blow away otherwise)

 

[elan]

oh yeah.. cutting your circulation for an hour should be fine... i wouldnt go more than that...