holiday advice

[sophie]

I'm going away for 4-5 days; I have no worries about what to do with the
coldwater tank but the tropicals have me a little puzzled.

the other half will be busy and anyway I don't want to ask him to feed
them more than once daily as I'm a little scared he'll overfeed, so
would it be a good idea to take the temp down a degree?

there is a dwarf gourami, five black kuhlis and seven harlequins (one of
whom is about to be the subject of another post). The current temp. is
24degress.
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sophie

[Justin Boucher]

Whenever I plan a vacation (or holiday as you like to put it) I usually only
ask someone to feed my tanks if I'm out for more than 4 days. Skipping a
few days is not dangerous to a lot of fish and may even be benefitial. If I
do ask for assistance, I generally ask them to feed on a schedule roughly
half of what I normally provide. I managed to acquire a tiny plastic scoop
that I use during feedings so if I usually feed a full scoop once a day, I
often will ask my voluteer to only provide just over half a scoop once every
other day.

This way, I have no fears of potential overfeedings and I know that the fish
would not directly starve should my vacation last a day or two longer.

Justin

"sophie" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> I'm going away for 4-5 days; I have no worries about what to do with the
> coldwater tank but the tropicals have me a little puzzled.
>
> the other half will be busy and anyway I don't want to ask him to feed
> them more than once daily as I'm a little scared he'll overfeed, so
> would it be a good idea to take the temp down a degree?
>
> there is a dwarf gourami, five black kuhlis and seven harlequins (one of
> whom is about to be the subject of another post). The current temp. is
> 24degress.
> --
> sophie

[Elaine T]

Justin Boucher wrote:
> Whenever I plan a vacation (or holiday as you like to put it) I usually only
> ask someone to feed my tanks if I'm out for more than 4 days. Skipping a
> few days is not dangerous to a lot of fish and may even be benefitial. If I
> do ask for assistance, I generally ask them to feed on a schedule roughly
> half of what I normally provide. I managed to acquire a tiny plastic scoop
> that I use during feedings so if I usually feed a full scoop once a day, I
> often will ask my voluteer to only provide just over half a scoop once every
> other day.
>
> This way, I have no fears of potential overfeedings and I know that the fish
> would not directly starve should my vacation last a day or two longer.
>
> Justin
>
I just did the same thing. I had my fishsitter come over every other
day, and feed what I usually give twice a day. I think she still
overfed because there's more algae than before and the plants grew like
crazy. Anyway, the fish and tanks are all fine.

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[David C. Stone]

In article >, Elaine T
> wrote:

> Justin Boucher wrote:
> > Whenever I plan a vacation (or holiday as you like to put it) I usually only
> > ask someone to feed my tanks if I'm out for more than 4 days. Skipping a
> > few days is not dangerous to a lot of fish and may even be benefitial. If I
> > do ask for assistance, I generally ask them to feed on a schedule roughly
> > half of what I normally provide. I managed to acquire a tiny plastic scoop
> > that I use during feedings so if I usually feed a full scoop once a day, I
> > often will ask my voluteer to only provide just over half a scoop once every
> > other day.
> >
> > This way, I have no fears of potential overfeedings and I know that the fish
> > would not directly starve should my vacation last a day or two longer.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> I just did the same thing. I had my fishsitter come over every other
> day, and feed what I usually give twice a day. I think she still
> overfed because there's more algae than before and the plants grew like
> crazy. Anyway, the fish and tanks are all fine.

I have one of those automatic feeder thingies. Seems to work fine!

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I use an automatic feeder on my bedroom tank. The tank is massively
aerated and the bubbles would normally cause the feeder to clog with
moist food but I fixed it so that would never happen now by having the
automatic feeder suspended 14 inches above the tank surface and this
feeder (a cheap penn-plax daily double) works perfectly since I have
been doing that. I've thought about trying to get an invention patent
but decided the solution is so simple and the public domain would be
helped so much by it that I cancelled the idea. I just clamp the feeder
to a long 5 inch wide 1/16 inch thick piece of glass leaning against
the aquarium so that the automatic feeder is 14-15 inches about the
tank's water surface. Works perfectly and am planning on using these
automatic feeders with my 2 bigger tanks as soon as I find a clamp of
some kind safe to use on glass and I will order some acrylic panes that
will act as a suspender so I don't have to get too much of a suspender
and also to reduce earthquake worries shaking the automatic feeder off
of being over the tank. Later!