holiday advice

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
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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