coralmadness
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I am going to be going out of town for about 8 days. Does anyone know of a way to feed my fish frozen food?
feeding frozen food
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The only way you can do this is to have someone come in and feed them.
Obviously, you can't put a mass of frozen food in the tank, and you can't put it in an automatic fish feeder.
The best solution I have found is to just go away and leave everything alone. Feed normally the day you go and lightly on the day you return. I find this works out much better that having someone inexperienced with reef systems try to do anything. I've left my system alone for up to 2 weeks without any issues.
The one exception to this is if you have livestock that must be feed every day. This is usually fry (baby fish) or specialized feeders such as Anthias sp. damsels.
Obviously, you can't put a mass of frozen food in the tank, and you can't put it in an automatic fish feeder.
The best solution I have found is to just go away and leave everything alone. Feed normally the day you go and lightly on the day you return. I find this works out much better that having someone inexperienced with reef systems try to do anything. I've left my system alone for up to 2 weeks without any issues.
The one exception to this is if you have livestock that must be feed every day. This is usually fry (baby fish) or specialized feeders such as Anthias sp. damsels.
JoeCanada11
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Good advice. I have done the same thing many times over with my freshwater tanks. Much better to underfed than over feed and organisms are able to survive long periods without food. However they are not able to survive long under poor conditions from over feeding. Many "tank crashing stories" I have heard of read about begging with "my fish sitter put too much food" ....