going on vacation for 4 days, cant get a fish sitter, HELP!
im leaving town, ill be gone for 4 days, and cant find anyone to feed the fish while im gone. i cant afford an automatic feeder, anyone have any ideas, of perhaps any vacation type food like they have for fresh water. need help soon, leaving the 23rd!!! thanks guys.
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I have left my fish for 3-4 days at a time any they have always been fine. Light is much more important espically for coral. You need light timers. Also make sure u have an auto top off system or that your tank is full...you dont want to lose to much water to evaporation.
lights each have there own individual timers, im going to do a ten percent wachainge the day before i leave, and ill make sure the auto top off resivuor is full. so food isn't an issue? i thought it was a big thing.i have two perculaclowns. thanks for the hints guys.
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i would just feed them pretty well the couple of days before you leave and pretty good the day you get back. i think that the clowns will be fine. i have gotten very busy at work, and forgot by the time i got home, to feed them for a few days and they were no worse for the wear. they pigged out when i did feed them after about the 3rd day, but they all survived and are still alive today.
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and just think, by not feeding them for a few days ... there will be no one coming in and OVER feeding them causing water quality issues and a massive hair algae bloom. Carmie knows how that goes !! i think she is still battling it !! lol
sorry Carmie, i had to go there !!
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Well then this is a good time to let it unfed for a few days!. And, Bobby is right, I seem to come home to a problem every time we go away and have a fish sitter.
that settles it then, no sitter. i really appreciate this guys. bye the way, is purple and white alge as good as i hear it is to have, or are they feeding me a load of bull. th fish store telling me this, all they do is salt water.
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i think it gives the tank charicter, it gives the feeling its not all just dead rock. its not a vivid purple, taking away from the fishs' beauty, but itsenough to get the girls over to the tank, and thats enough for me! lol.
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also im starting to get some baby blue algie in the high current areas, problematic or no? ive never heard of any baby blue alge before, its just a tiny patch, about the size of the end of an unsharpened pencil.
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going on vacation for 4 days, cant get a fish sitter, HELP! 
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