Vacation feeding?

ooja3k

ooja3k

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Im planning ahead and trying to figure out what automatic fish feeder i will/need to get for the christmas break.. ( I am a college student and am going home..)

I will be gone 2 1/2 weeks. will my fish be fine???

I know my sixline will be fine eating the unlimited number of copepods and amphipods in my tank... but my two tank raised ocellaris clowns are who im worried about...

Is that too long to go without a feeding?

If it is too long, what automatic feeder should i get??
 
If I didn't have available tank sitters nearby I'd personally go with the Eheim feeder. From what I've heard from a few club members that do tank maintenance as well they say the best thing to use with them are the pellets.
 
You should also get them used to the routine/type of food before you leave
 
wow gone for two weeks? Don't you have a friend who could periodically stop by and check on them? There is soo much that could go wrong in two weeks. They sell some decent feeders at your local petsmart and petco.. fish should be fine without daily feedings, they could go a few days without food but a couple weeks is kind of pushing it. Do you have a backup battery source in case electricity goes out? I would just ask a friend or family to drop by occasionally and maybe do one big water change before leaving on vacation.
 
Delete brought up a good point.. sort of.. What are you going to do about water top offs so your salinity doesn't go through the roof and your PH doesn't crash?
 
i have a bucket of RO/DI under my stand that my auto top off uses... so that isn't a problem...

the only thing would be food...

the eheim one is good? i have just heard horror stories saying how people use them and they overfeed/malfunction....

thats why i would want to get one early and do a test run on it..


well im looking at them at drsfostersmith.com...

this one looks good:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+4430+16107&pcatid=16107

andd getting them acclimated to the food is not a problem... they are feed pelets daily anyway...
 
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