Will be gone for vacation

[kim7]

Hi guys, I have a 20g long saltwater tank with soft and euphyllia corals with 1 damselfish, 1 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp and 5 small hermits.
I will go out of the country with my family for 4 weeks and wondering if I should use an auto feeder to feed the fish and the inverts or just take out the fish and not use feeder

Equips: I have a GFO reactor and an auto top off. I don't use other filteration other than live rocks.

Within the two choices. If I use an auto feeder, I'm afraid it will just increase the nitrates and phosphate with the lack of water changes. If I get rid of my fish and not use a feeder should I be worried about the inverts??..
Besides those two problems, can soft corals and euphyllias survive through 4 weeks of no water changes? I use coral pro salt. Will that have enough elements that corals need?

I can't find any other friends that can babysit it sadly..
Give me any suggestions.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

Tank will survive not sure if fish will maybe a week. It's a damsel I would give it to the fish store.

 

[jrwoltman]

You are not going to like this, but I would sell/give away all livestock, including CUC and just start again when you get home. Imagine how hot your house is going to be with no AC for a month. Also, I personally wouldn't risk running an ATO for a month unattended, many ATO horror stories, just not worth it.

 

[kim7]

You are not going to like this, but I would sell/give away all livestock, including CUC and just start again when you get home. Imagine how hot your house is going to be with no AC for a month. Also, I personally wouldn't risk running an ATO for a month unattended, many ATO horror stories, just not worth it.

I can give away all inverts and fish. But I don't really want to give away/sell the corals....my ato has been working fine for a while.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

How often do you have to refill it? Where r u located?

 

[kim7]

How often do you have to refill it? Where r u located?

I live in southern california. I have 20gallon of rodi water for the auto top off. i think that should be enough, cause it refills my tank less than a gallon a day.

 

[Rick cowen]

Do you have a doser? And your a/c is staying on or off?

 

[kim7]

Do you have a doser? And your a/c is staying on or off?

I dont have a doser but I do have supplements. I just found a buddy of mine that is willing to watch over it actualy.
Do you think soft/lps corals can survive no water changes for 4 weeks? or would I have to have him manually dose.

 

[Squid]

What part of socal are you in? There's tons of stores and company's that will take care of your tank while gone.....

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

I live in southern california. I have 20gallon of rodi water for the auto top off. i think that should be enough, cause it refills my tank less than a gallon a day.

I'm in so cal

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

On a 20 gal idk just mix 10 gallons and as your buddy to switch out 5 gallons every 2 weeks.

 

[reefrf]

Hi guys, I have a 20g long saltwater tank with soft and euphyllia corals with 1 damselfish, 1 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp and 5 small hermits.
I will go out of the country with my family for 4 weeks and wondering if I should use an auto feeder to feed the fish and the inverts or just take out the fish and not use feeder

Equips: I have a GFO reactor and an auto top off. I don't use other filteration other than live rocks.

Within the two choices. If I use an auto feeder, I'm afraid it will just increase the nitrates and phosphate with the lack of water changes. If I get rid of my fish and not use a feeder should I be worried about the inverts??..
Besides those two problems, can soft corals and euphyllias survive through 4 weeks of no water changes? I use coral pro salt. Will that have enough elements that corals need?

I can't find any other friends that can babysit it sadly..
Give me any suggestions.

Kim,
To answer your question....yes you corals can survive just fine without a water change for the time you're gone. Aside from the unexpected happening of course. Your fish will be the only ones that will require regular feeding.