Vacation Automatic Feed

justlooking

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I am going away this summer for about 8-9 days and have a couple fish who jump so am worried about putting in an automatic feeder which would probably have to leave openings in the top and could allow fish to jump out. Any recommendations as I'd prefer to get a feeder. Not sure if there are any that can be submerged. (2 neon cleaner gobies, yasha hashi with pistol shrimp, purple firefish, algae blenny, bicolor blenny, barnacle blennies, some hermit crabs, couple other small fish, fire shrimp, cleaner shrimp)
 

lmforbis

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You can just put a hole small enough for the food to drop in. That is what I do. I have a 1.5 inch hole in the top of the hood where I put the auto feeder when I’m out of town.
 

silverado61

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Depending on how long the tank has been established, everything in your tank can go 8-9 days without feeding. There should be plenty of things already in your tank for them to munch on without starving. Besides, what did they do in the wild before you came along? Answer: Hunt for their own food.
I went to Hawaii for two weeks with no one to feed the critters and had zero losses when I came home and my tank had only been up and running about six months.

Just a thought
 
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