When Rob was in hospital having his PEG fitted he was under the care of a specialist nurse and a nutritionist.On the day he was due to be discharged they came amd gave us a tutorial on how to administer feeds via the tube.This consisted of a bottle of feed,a large jug,a 50ml bladder syringe and sterile water.A flush of water was pushed through first followed by the feed drawn up from the jug in 50 ml measures.This was then flushed through with water.The whole procedure took about ten minutes at most and the only issues were with the quantity his stomach could tolerate,apart from that the whole process was trouble free.Once a week the PEG is unclipped,and pushed backwards ,rotated 360 degrees and then pulled forward and clipped back in position If the person in Petes post whose tube "grew in" had been moving and rotating his tube every week it couldnt possibly have become embedded the moral of this story being i dont think there are any hard and fast rules it depends on the hospital concerned.And Petey remeber your PM to me about reading to much into peoples posts!!!