When Feeding Fish or Corals, Do you turn off your Return Pump ?

[rmalone]

I also turn nothing off. I put the food/foods in a plastic cup w/tank water make sure nothing is floating and make those fish chase the food. Anything that does make it into the overflow or sump is pod food.

[MizTanks]

Return off for about 5min so all corals feed, fish also. Then on for filter feeders. I find I feed less this way knowing everything gets eaten, less waist.

[jolson10450]

yeah my fish are used to it now, they know the sound when the pump goes off to head to the water surface and get ready lol.

[Fordris]

I am running sumpless So when i feed i turn off my HOB filter and my power heads i leave the HOB skimmer on.
We start by target feeding certain corals then broadcast feed the filter feeders then i let it sit for about 5 min then i kick on only the power head for about 5-10 min to let all the filter feeders grab anything loose once the tanks looks pretty clear of food i Kick back on the HOB filter.

[schminksbro]

I put my Vortechs on feed mode and feed the fish what they will eat before it touches bottom. I then repeat several times.