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Totally true. Many people only add zooplankton (nearly microscopic food) to the water column and let their flow and pumps take the food to the coral. They say this gives them enough nutrition for good growth. I feed with this technique every other nite using a Reef Chili and Coral Frenzy blend. Its very easy to do but imo it doesn't give the corals as much as if you feed them more meaty foods like small shrimps and cyclops, etc. I feed these food items on opposite nights from the others. I personally try and feed every head on every coral (my lps, like acans and chalices). As I said in the other thread I use a turkey baster and make sure the food goes right into the mouth of the coral. This method is called target feeding. I like it because the food is expensive and if you make sure it goes into the mouth then you get the most for your money. Also if it doesn't go into the mouth then it will contribute to polluting your tank so target feeding makes sense water chemistry wise. On the other hand you can just toss these meaty foodstuffs into the tank and hope your flow takes it to the mouths of your corals. This method is called broadcast feeding. Its much easier. Actually what I do is target feed and then turn on my pumps so any residual food that missed the mouths goes into the water column and hopefully gets grabbed by a mouth. Then after a while I turn on my recirculation pumps so my water goes from tank to tank. So I guess I do a hybrid target/broadcast feeding, lol.