Quote Originally Posted by prof
The messy feeding is an interesting subject. I would welcome a messy feeder in my reef. The corals would love the small particulate food. It should do a lot of good for many corals.
I think it also depends on what you're feeding. In my case, it was always live food (guppies, rubies, ghost shrimp, all fortified with vitamins) and there were always scales floating around. Not something that I'd want to have settling on top of any of my corals. Even after I stopped feeding live foods, I could still see some scales on the bottom months later.

But, I know better now. There are much better choices of food for the triggers and other predatory fish than when I started.