Tiny treats: How do you feed powdered food?

How do you feed powdered food?

  • Baster/pipette

    Votes: 387 51.2%
  • Mix and pour

    Votes: 249 32.9%
  • Dose

    Votes: 23 3.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 15 2.0%
  • I don’t feed powdered food

    Votes: 179 23.7%

  • Total voters
    756
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I originally used a syringe with a piece of ro tubing. Suck it up, squirt it out. Eventually the plunger died on the syringe so I took it out and just pour the mixture into the top with the tubing aimed where I want. It's so much better, I'll never do it differently again.
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X2 on this. Tubing connected to a syringe that I can use to spot feed.

I feed weekly (sometimes bi-weekly). Will feed my tank their frozen food with all pumps/skimmer off, spot feed corals at the same time (do this while feeding so my shrimp doesn't try to steal the reef roids), then do a water change afterwards.
 
This is what I use. Absolutely love the control by using the thumb wheel.
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Same here, thing is also great for chasing off the cleaner shrimp when they subsequently try to use your corals as a vending machine. I usually try to squirt some reef roid slurry into a spot in the sand as a sacrifice to keep them busy while my LPS are taking the food in.
 

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