What does everyone do when going away?

[gaboon]

What do you guys do when going away for a couple days? Do you rely on someone with no fish experience to feed etc?

 

[Afsal]

well i showed my nephew what to do , i mixed my tup up water as i dnt have an auto top up , and have my sump marked as where water level shud , and so far so good ....

 

[jacquesb]

Have an auto-feeder to feed the fish..... Now, when I go away, I won't trust my auto-topup - I would rather decrease the salinity VERY slowly to 1.021 from 1.024 and then set the RO to VERY slowly VERY slowly drip water into the tank. I have also dropped my water levels in the tank and sump, that if there is a power failure, that nothing over-flows..... and floods the house.

I have asked someone to go and look into the health of the fish, every now and again - and to call me with "Status updates"....

 

[Mekaeel]

in my case teach someone how to go about feeding.give them a contact number of someone who knows my system well and i can trust to take care in case of an emergency.add no new equiptment before leaving

 

[Alan]

Depends how long i go for, have a few mates i can rely on to keep things going if going away for extended periods or if only a few days i dont worry.

 

[Tridan]

Best bet is to have a mate who you can rely on and in turn reciprocate, I call it a tank buddie, almost like a dive buddie

 

[phat]

I would rather decrease the salinity VERY slowly to 1.021 from 1.024

WTF for? is this the reason why you had a wipe out before?

 

[Kanga]

I phone surgeon

 

[Alan]

Easiest is to slowly automate the system, and leave minimum for the other folks to do.

 

[Hill]

I pray to the reef gods.

 

[leslie hempel]

and whayever you dont leave the tank on...

 

[DragonReef]

Mmm I dread having to go away.

What's the longest you guy's have been away from your tanks at any one time ?

 

[viper357]

Since I started marines, 4 days.

 

[Mike]

well i showed my nephew what to do , i mixed my tup up water as i dnt have an auto top up , and have my sump marked as where water level shud , and so far so good ....

Just checking, what are you mixing your top-up water with? you should be topping up with neat R/O



Luckily for me i don't live in a very large country, i have about 6 reefers within 20 minutes drive

 

[Kanga]

Mmm I dread having to go away.

What's the longest you guy's have been away from your tanks at any one time ?

Longest 16 days, but away for a week at a time very regularly. ANGRY does a great job, and when we are both away Surgeon steps in, (damn tank looks better after he tended to a it for a week)

All that really needs to be done is fill the top up water up, but thats very seldom that it needs to be done.

 

[joe]

Teach someone , or pay a pro for maintainance ... many marine shops offer this service

 

[calvin]

sell the tank

 

[Steve Warren]

I only top up once a week so I just leave it, I don't usually go away for long anyway. A week would be long. Hey Calvin a Ghost Pipefish was apparently caught at Swartkops last week, first time I have heard of one down this far!

 

[calvin]

i heard steve thats awsme

 

[Rory]

4 days for me as well...