chuckdallas
Tank Tinkerer
My step-daughter gets married next weekend. I have an auto-feeder for the Spectrum fish food but I also have three large sets of Sun Polyps (didn't realize they had to be fed everyday when the wife and I bought them and the wife likes them).
I've been mixing PE Mysis and frozen cyclopeeze and a couple of other items to make a "shrimp cocktail" for the Sun Polyps and feeding each night. It was driving my phosphates WAY up in the 120 gallon DT, so I moved the three separate groups of Sun Polyps into my 10 gallon "rescue tank". I know keeping the parameters stable is tougher in a 10 gallon but I'm okay with that for now. I finally got my phos down to 0.05 in the main DT and I want to grow some acro in the DT, I will keep the water changes going in the 10 gallon to keep that water fresh.
So, how do I feed the Sun Polyps when I'm gone?? We took a trip to ski in Jan and a business trip in March and the daughter fed the Sun Polyps once or twice during those weeks we were gone and they didn't fare well. There was some serious tissue recession around the stalks but they are fighting back due to the work since then. This time the whole family will leave the house and there isn't anyone to feed the Sun Polyps. I can't ask the neighbors because the ones on the right are too stuck up to help and the ones on the left wouldn't get messy with the mysis and sticking their hands in my tank (which makes me cringe).
Is there a way to autofeed the polyps while I'm gone? I'll be taking business trips and vacations in the future, so I'm wondering what everyone else does to feed their Sun Polyps while they are gone for a week.
I've been mixing PE Mysis and frozen cyclopeeze and a couple of other items to make a "shrimp cocktail" for the Sun Polyps and feeding each night. It was driving my phosphates WAY up in the 120 gallon DT, so I moved the three separate groups of Sun Polyps into my 10 gallon "rescue tank". I know keeping the parameters stable is tougher in a 10 gallon but I'm okay with that for now. I finally got my phos down to 0.05 in the main DT and I want to grow some acro in the DT, I will keep the water changes going in the 10 gallon to keep that water fresh.
So, how do I feed the Sun Polyps when I'm gone?? We took a trip to ski in Jan and a business trip in March and the daughter fed the Sun Polyps once or twice during those weeks we were gone and they didn't fare well. There was some serious tissue recession around the stalks but they are fighting back due to the work since then. This time the whole family will leave the house and there isn't anyone to feed the Sun Polyps. I can't ask the neighbors because the ones on the right are too stuck up to help and the ones on the left wouldn't get messy with the mysis and sticking their hands in my tank (which makes me cringe).
Is there a way to autofeed the polyps while I'm gone? I'll be taking business trips and vacations in the future, so I'm wondering what everyone else does to feed their Sun Polyps while they are gone for a week.
