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08-10-2006, 09:31 AM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Kentucky
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Pumps On Or Pumps Off?
do you guys & gals keep the pumps on or off during feeding...I bought some zooplankton and phytoplankton drops and seems it goes right through the overflows when I add it for the corals?
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300 Gallon Mixed Reef
refugium with sump 
& Now 75 Reef at work
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08-10-2006, 09:45 AM
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Sailfin
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Noblesville, Indiana
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It's OK to turn them off. We don't, but we don't feed that. We used to feed phytoplankton and didn't turn the pumps off then... we turkey-basted it right onto the corals.
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08-10-2006, 09:51 AM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Kentucky
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I can get a long surenge and shoot it on the corals? I have alot of pumps just a pain to shut them off everytime..
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Joe Henderson
300 Gallon Mixed Reef
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& Now 75 Reef at work
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08-10-2006, 09:54 AM
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Sailfin
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Noblesville, Indiana
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Yeah... get a turkey baster just for your tank. We feed corals with that... squirt it right on them. You can turn the pumps off for 20 min or whatever if you like, too.
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08-10-2006, 09:57 AM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Kentucky
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do you have a link to one?
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Joe Henderson
300 Gallon Mixed Reef
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08-10-2006, 10:07 AM
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Sailfin
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Noblesville, Indiana
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click here
You get them at grocery stores, K-Mart, Wal-mart, etc.
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08-10-2006, 10:16 AM
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Stinky Slimey FEESH
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: San Antonio
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It's what you use to baste a turkey - they are plastic large syringes with (usually) yellow plastic bulbs on one end. Cost about a buck at the dollar store. I have two I use to squirt-feed the corals and polyps. I can't turn off all the pumps and power heads, it's too much of a pain!
HHC
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08-10-2006, 10:26 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Illinois
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Here is what i use, and well worth the price. You dont even have to put your hands in the tank with this one.
Kent Sea Squirt Feedeing prong
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08-10-2006, 10:31 AM
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The Muddy Mod
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Uxbridge, MA
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I also use this...my only complaint is that the hole is too small for Mysis. They clog it up
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08-10-2006, 10:40 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Illinois
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whatevva, i drilled the hole out and works like a charm. no leaking either.
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08-10-2006, 10:57 AM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Kentucky
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I just ordered on thanks alot...I have a 29 deep tank so Ill need one that long
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Joe Henderson
300 Gallon Mixed Reef
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08-10-2006, 11:00 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: NW
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Originally Posted by whatevva
I also use this...my only complaint is that the hole is too small for Mysis. They clog it up
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I use a huge syringe that my wife brought home from work but i had to drill it out for mysis
i see that this was now a redundant post.............
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08-10-2006, 11:06 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by Hardhead Cat
(usually) yellow plastic bulbs on one end.
HHC
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I have my pumps off and my bulb is green.never saw a yellow one,only red or green.
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08-10-2006, 11:07 AM
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I'm sorry.......
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: South West Florida
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I have a hard time giving up my turkey baster...this close to Thanksgiving.
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08-10-2006, 01:00 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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I keep the pumps on at feeding time, this helps to get food to the corals, and if my fish want to eat the'll have to work for it 
Whiskey
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