Feeding Yellow Goby while away for two weeks?

[flyingscampi]

I have one fish, a Yellow Goby, who gets fed with frozen shrimp once a day, and also eat pods when he can still find them (the rocks used to be crawling with them.) During my two week holiday, a family member was going to housesit and feed the goby, however this arrangement has fallen through and I'm considering my options.

How long could I leave between feedings without causing harm?

Are there any other suggestions, e.g. buy a load of amphipods and dump them in the tank before I go?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Get an automatic fish feeder. It won feed frozen, but will feed pellets or dry-frozen foods.

 

[flyingscampi]

Get an automatic fish feeder. It won feed frozen, but will feed pellets or dry-frozen foods.

I've tried a few types of pellets, but he won't eat them. Can you recommend dry-frozen foods a yellow goby might eat?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I cant I'm sorry. I dont use freeze dried

I'll follow this thread for idea's though, I also have fish that wont eat pellets, I need to solve that problem by Christmas.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

My citrón goby (Gobiodon citronus) likewise only eats frozen. I recently had 2 ten day absences within a month. I only fed flake food from an automatic feeder for the other fish. No one came by to feed anything else. I don’t think it ate any. It survived. It never looked thin!

 

[LucentFish]

Possibly not enough time for you, but i got my picky fish to start eating pellets by sneaking pellets into the frozen food as it thawed(i thaw in a shot glass with tank water). My theory was it made the pellets taste like the frozen. Adding a fresh top up of pods probably wouldn't hurt.