Vacation Feeding

[meanmachine]

I'm going on vacation for 10 days....I don't have anyone to feed my fish while i'm a way. Any Suggestions....Not sure if they're 10 day feeders for marine tanks.

I have 2 clowns, 1 fairy wrasse and 2 fire gobies.
Also, I have a sun polyp coral, a galaxia, and green zoo.

I usually add DT's for the zoo and galaxia and i target feed the sun polyp cyclopezze and mysis twice a week

Any suggestions?

 

[jim293]

I have heard of people leaving there tanks for as long as a week. But two weeks may be a bit long.

 

[Amphiprionocellaris]

You don't need to worry about the corals, that's for sure, and I would even be willing to say that the fish will be fine, too. One thing that I do when we have house-sitters is to get some frozen food, thaw it in a shot glass, and put the shot glass(es) in the fridge with instructions on when to add it.
If that's not possible, I wouldn't worry about it. Fish can go for a good amount of time scavenging on life in the live rock.

 

[meanmachine]

ok..thanks! i feel a little bit relieved now! We'll see what happens!

 

[szwab]

the tank should be fine without feeding also do not over feed right before you leave as that may overload your filtration. Would be a good idea to make up some water before you go as well so you can do a water change when you get back and/or prepare in case you discover one is needed when you get back. If you are going to make any changes to the tank due to you being gone make sure you do them well enough in advance so that problems don't arise when you are gone.

 

[Scuba_Dave]

I would never go away for 10 days without someone to look in on my tank. A weekend, yes - but not a week to 10 days
Better to have someone check every other day to make sure everything is alright
We have a friend check on the tank & top off
Feeding is every other day, left in a small baggie
RC & local Reef club website left for use
Plus I usually try to get the phone numbers of a couple local reefers they can call
The peace of mind is well worth it

 

[NEEDMONEYFORMORESALT]

hope you have a good top off system, tank could really be low after ten days.