1 week vacation

[blender02]

I will be going on vacation for one week and have a question about my tank. It is 50 gallon sps tank with a tang, mysery wrasse, two percula clowns and some green chromies.

The tank has a ATO and a doser for Calc, Alk, and Mg. so I am not worried about that. The question is about feeding the fish: Can they go a week without eating and be Ok? There seem to be a lot of pods at night when the lights go off. Or, has anyone tried those bizarre vacation food pyramids at the LFS?

Also, I run 6 t5 lights. Should only use 1/2 the bulbs to ease up on the algae while I am gone|?

Thank is running great, established for a few years, and sps are growing very well with good colors. Also, I run ecobak biopellets to keep a ulns tank (if that matters). Thanks,

 

[jerpa]

While the fish can survive a week I would see if you could get someone to stop by at least once or twice to feed and check on the tank. Vacation is when your flawlessly running return pump, heater, controller, timer, etc. decides to fail on, fail off, explode, and cause other misery.

 

[jda]

Get a Ehiem feeder and put some pellets in it, or have somebody stop by every few days to feed 'em.

 

[greg1786]

I would have someone stop over once or twice and check on things as the other posters said. As for the lights, are they on timers? If not you can pick a few up at walmart for like 5 bucks that way they can turn on and off each day while your not home

 

[aquasport24]

Introduce that someone to your local forums too .Just incase something happens and that someone cant' get a hold of you. Good luck and have a nice vacation.

 

[latinreefer]

Get a Ehiem feeder and put some pellets in it, or have somebody stop by every few days to feed 'em.

I'm on vacation now and my eheim works great with pellets. I have used mine for the past 3 va actions and its perfect. Put your lights on a timer and make sure you have enough for your ato and you should be fine

 

[MammothReefer]

I don't do the auto feeder (but I should)

What I do is.

Turn down the skimmer so it doesn't skim so wet since I won't be around to empty it.
Replace my 5g ATO bucket with my 50gallon brute.
Top off my alk/calc jugs.
and remove my filter sock so it doesn't clog when I'm gone.

When it comes to the fish it's more dependent on the fish you have. My wrasses are always forging for food, my blenny can always pick algae off the glass and rocks. However when I had Anthias they require constant feeding of mysis or will start to pick each other off. Going over your fish list you should be fine. May loose some shrimp if the wrasse can get away with it and gets really hungry.