Vacation and Maintaining away

Tham121988 · Nov 17, 2016

With the holidays coming up, I will be out of town for a week at a time. So I went ahead and purchased an Ehiem automatic feeder, the apex jr. system, and the tunze ATO. They will all be here tomorrow. My kessil light is already running on the spectral controller. Will this cover everything I need to monitor it away and keep it happy for extended vacations?

There are no local fish stores to pay to have a guy come by and check on it.

Rob.D · Nov 18, 2016

Any local fish club? If not, at least have a friend or family stop in just to look over the tank to make sure the ato/auto feeder is working properly.

gfordQC · Nov 18, 2016

Yeah, depending on your evaporation amount you may need to have someone refill your ATO
reservoir at some point during the week.

dbl · Nov 18, 2016

You may want to look through this article for some other ideas.

https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/vacation-time.67/

Tham121988 · Nov 18, 2016

Rob.D said:
Any local fish club? If not, at least have a friend or family stop in just to look over the tank to make sure the ato/auto feeder is working properly.

I'm not aware of any local fish club. I live in a small college town. Oxford MS. So while there are thousands that are permanent residents, the majority of people come and go after college. We had a LFS awhile back and he did house visits. Tragically I think he had a house fire and lost all of his family animals. So understandably he moved away. My brother and sister in laws live here but I believe they wont be in town either. Other than that none of my friends here would have a clue what any of this stuff is. Haha.

Tham121988 · Nov 18, 2016

gfordQC said:
Yeah, depending on your evaporation amount you may need to have someone refill your ATO
reservoir at some point during the week.

I don't lose a ton of evap. My display is a covered top. I mostly lose it out of the sump and being a nano aquarium I can use quite a large reservoir for the top off. I don't imagine it running out in a week.