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Saltwater Automatic Feeders – Frozen Foods?
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Most fish, when fed regularly and well, can go for up to 3-4 weeks without eating. I would feed them well for a couple weeks before I left and not worry about them.
If you just don’t feel right about just leaving them, there are aquarium maintenance services that are bonded and will come in and feed your fish and do maintenance on the tank. Just look under aquarium maintenance in the yellow pages.
You are very lucky to have a mandarin (they are beautiful fish, aren’t they?) that is eating for you. I have heard they are almost impossible to keep alive in home aquariums unless you have a couple hundred pounds of live rock for them to hunt in and around.
26 years of keeping and spawning many different species of tropical fish and cichlids. 25 tanks up and running at present (partial water changes done every week to 10 days). Mostly cichlids and scavengers right now with 5 tanks devoted to various freshwater crustaceans. I have worked in both the retail and wholesale tropical fish business.
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I’m not sure who makes it but I saw a brine shrimp hatcher/feeder that hooks onto your tank in one of my LFS.
I will try to find out more about it tomorrow.
You may not be able to hook it onto YOUR tank???
26 years of keeping and spawning many different species of tropical fish and cichlids. 25 tanks up and running at present (partial water changes done every week to 10 days). Mostly cichlids and scavengers right now with 5 tanks devoted to various freshwater crustaceans. I have worked in both the retail and wholesale tropical fish business.
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I would just continue as normal. Your fish should be fine, also if your tank is established you should have a nice supply of pods all over the place. The will be fine for 2 weeks. If your still worried, ask your local pet store if have any live foods. Don’t let them trick u into buying a brine hatchery. Brine shrimp only live as long as they have a yoke sack unless your expericenced enough to kept them into adult hood. To make long story short, you will have a bunch dead brine in your tank, and it make cause poor water quaility with a tank that small.
26 years of keeping and spawning many different species of tropical fish and cichlids. 25 tanks up and running at present (partial water changes done every week to 10 days). Mostly cichlids and scavengers right now with 5 tanks devoted to various freshwater crustaceans. I have worked in both the retail and wholesale tropical fish business.
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