Feeding questions

[pgolnick]

I'm going on vacation and my neighbor will feed my tank when I'm gone. The tank has a clown and a flame angle along with 30-40 snail/crabs. Most of my corals are softies and a frogspawn.

Would it be O.K for me to pre-fill a syringe with frozen mysis in RO water and leave it in the frig for 1-4 days?

This way my neighbor could just insect the tip into the water and feed. No dethawing, no mixing with water. My fish are used to being feed this way. They swim right up to the tip of the syringe at feeding time.

I'm trying to make this a easy as possible and also fool-proof.

Please let me know what you thing.

Thanks,
Phil

 

[ReefWidowed]

Frozen mysis tend to go very bad very quickly, even within hours ....If you use cubed, it shouldn't be very hard for your neighbor to figure out. That or flake.

 

[itZme]

I would rather feed them the day you leave and then as soon as you come home. They should be OK for 4 days without any food added to the tank. If you have to let the neighbor feed them I would just have him come over after 2 days and feed. I skip days very often. It is no big deal. If you break off the amount of mysis you want them to feed and just tell them to drop the frozen chunk into the tank it will melt and the fish will know what to do.

You could also just drop a small amount of flakes into a container and have them dump it in on the 2nd day.

I don't think I would trust the mysis for that many days in the fridge but that's just my opinion.

Hope it helps.
-- Kevin

 

[stevestank]

I have an eheim auto feeder that feeds a pinch of spectrum pellet 4 times a day. All my fish are nice and plump. I haven't touched the eheim feeder except to look for the "battery low" indicator in several months. I vacation long weekends on Marblehead Put-In-Bay over the summer. A feeder is essential if you like to take off for 4+ days. I bought it from salty critter for 40 bucks. Well worth it. I feed frozen a couple days a week just for variety/health.

Steve

 

[pgolnick]

Thanks for the advise.

Phil