Bearchumjs
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What do you do if you go on vacation for a week?
Bearchumjs said:What do you do if you go on vacation for a week?
Ibrahim said:Let it die > : D Jk I get my relatives or friends to take care of it.
AquaRick said:They do make autofeeders. I saw the eheim auto feeder at my LFS. They let me open it up and check it out. After inspecting it and trying to use it there, I passed on it. It got clogged the first time I tried using it. Also, the food it dispersed was not even from 1 feeding time to the next. It was obviously easier with pellets than anything else....but i just didn't trust it.
mr_X said:You can skip feeding your tank for a week and the fish will be fine.
Bearchumjs said:That's good to know! I was just thinking yesterday I would hate for them to all die if I went on vacation. It would be awful to spend all that time and money for that to happen.
jwalsh said:I've skipped feeding for 5 days before. I usually feed every other day but before my vacation I fed everyday for the 3 days before
Sniperhank said:If by sun polyps you mean sun coral, or yellow tube coral. This coral is non-photosynthetic and needs to be direct fed, high water flow, and very little light.
Saltwater Aquarium Corals for Marine Reef Aquariums: Tube Coral, Yellow, Tubastrea sp.
And I'd stay away from nudibranch. They die and produce toxins that will pollute your tank.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+524+724&pcatid=724
And the Bird's nest is an SPS coral. Needs lots of light and flow.
jwalsh said:Ya know now that you guys point that out it does seem kind of silly
Rutrag said:Don't feel bad. I've heard people say that about a lot of different species of schooling fish. Sometimes people have heard things enough times that they assume it must be true.
jwalsh said:I would also stay away from the lettuce sea slug. They look great but I had one and it got sucked up in a power head and got shredded lol. Its not funny acually it caused a huge mess! So if you have power heads in your tank like you should I would stay away from them imho. Sniperhawk what is dying in your tank?
As for feeding you might have to target feed your goby but I just throw a few sinking pellets in my tank and he eats them just fine. What he doesn't eat my cuc finishes. I target my duncan a few mysis with a turkey baster once a week or so just because they get bigger faster. I do that with a few of my corals at night when the sweeper tenticals are out