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Srt4eric

Srt4eric

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I little dramatic on the title there. I'm taking my first vacation since setting up my tanks. I'm leaving tomorrow morning (Saturday) and I'm coming back Tuesday. I'm doing a water change now and making sure the ato is topped off. If I feed my fish and leave a fat piece of nori in the tank tomorrow morning is should be fine until Tuesday, right?
 
I have apex and someone to come over incase of catastrophic failure but other than that do I really need to feed them for two days?
 
Srt4eric said:
I little dramatic on the title there. I'm taking my first vacation since setting up my tanks. I'm leaving tomorrow morning (Saturday) and I'm coming back Tuesday. I'm doing a water change now and making sure the ato is topped off. If I feed my fish and leave a fat piece of nori in the tank tomorrow morning is should be fine until Tuesday, right?
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you’ll be fine not to feed them for a couple days. One thing I would recommend though is maybe get an auto feeder to feed once a day on a normal basis, that way when you do leave, you’ll know you have a working device since you’ll be seeing it run everyday. I’d also avoid doing a water change the night before of the day you go just in case something happens or you forget to turn something back on.
 
RandyC said:
you’ll be fine not to feed them for a couple days. One thing I would recommend though is maybe get an auto feeder to feed once a day on a normal basis, that way when you do leave, you’ll know you have a working device since you’ll be seeing it run everyday. I’d also avoid doing a water change the night before of the day you go just in case something happens or you forget to turn something back on.
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Good advice! Yea don’t change a thing for a few days before you leave. If you tinker with your lights they could get stuck in manual-on mode for example. If you do a water change you might forget to turn your ATo or heater off etc...
 
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In my 15 gallon tank, I feed my fis
Srt4eric said:
I have apex and someone to come over incase of catastrophic failure but other than that do I really need to feed them for two days?
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Your fish will be fine. The fish in my 15 gallon gets fed every 3/4 days and the smallest clownfish in my main tank might not eat for an entire week.
 
I’m routinely gone for 6-9 days at a time and the tank hold out just fine. I do have an apex auto feeder though and that makes a big difference for me.
 
Auto feeder and auto top off.. I regularly don't touch my tank between water changes.

I have a rsm 250 that has a full lid. Normally I have the front portion removed. But if I'm going to be gone for over a week I put it on to help with evap and extend my ato longer.
 
What pellets do you all use for your auto feeders? The PE ones seem to work ok, but a lot end up not getting eaten.
Recently got a sample of ocean nutrition pellets and they sink too quickly.
 
I use flake.

But yes -- you need a feeding ring of some sort. I have the eheim feeding station.

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@xCry0x I might try flake too, this is exclusively what I feed my fish besides frozen food. I’m having trouble finding flake food since pellets have become more popular.
Just worried in a fish feeder situation they will absorb moisture and jam up the feeder, has that ever happened to you?
 
Chromis said:
@xCry0x I might try flake too, this is exclusively what I feed my fish besides frozen food. I’m having trouble finding flake food since pellets have become more popular.
Just worried in a fish feeder situation they will absorb moisture and jam up the feeder, has that ever happened to you?
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Nope. Iv been using this setup for 8 years. Only time I have had issues is when I knocked the thing into the tank :p . They aren't particularly water proof.

I used pellets early on but really I don't think pellets with well with the auto feeder. They tend to sink quickly. Flake stays in the water column a lot better.

I use Omega 1 marine flakes. This isn't something I have researched heavily, it's just what I have found at the store easily.

I use flake on the feeder fed 3x a day. When I'm being attentive I'll also do some mysis fed manually.

The auto feeder ensures that no matter how busy my day is, the fish get fed.
 
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