piiqmark
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I travel for work and I also try and take at least one 7-10 day vacation per year. Often times its 2-3 4day weekends and one 7-10.
I have someone to check in on the basics and feed however I find a nice mixture of food in my autofeeder (which i use even when i am home) does the trick for feeding.
My point for posting this is to share ideas on what you do to prepare for a few days away from home.
This is my list:
-Skimmer - that thing gets cleaned to sparkle.
-Glass, I do a very good job of scraping as much off the glass as possible.
-Since I already do 10% water changes per week I jump it to 20% if i am going to be gone longer than 3-4 days.
-Powerheads, baffles etc cleaned and cleared.
-Pumps cleared and cleaned (my routine is to clean these anyway but I usually add a cleaning if i am gone for more than 4 days)
-Heater, Although I keep 2 in the sump I take one out and put it in the display.
-Check timers for lights
-Fill auto top off and dose 1/2 of what i would normally dose just in case something goes wrong.
-Clean up salt creep everywhere but specifically around anything that moves or carries water.
-Tangs love Algae so I usually tank a clump of my sump algae and put it under a rock.
-Target feed all corals just before leaving.
-Check water params
-Make enough salt water (in my case 20 gallons) to have on hand in the event you come home to less than ideal conditions you can get things back on track quickly
-Make enough RODI water so that you have more than you normally need on hand, you never know especially with evaporation of the saltwater you make.
-Anything longer than 4 days I add some additional bugs (copepods and amphipods) to the display and sump as a just in case food source.
I would love to hear what others do in addition to what I listed. Also, anyone thinking something I have listed shouldnt be there or should be done another way please share that as well!
I have someone to check in on the basics and feed however I find a nice mixture of food in my autofeeder (which i use even when i am home) does the trick for feeding.
My point for posting this is to share ideas on what you do to prepare for a few days away from home.
This is my list:
-Skimmer - that thing gets cleaned to sparkle.
-Glass, I do a very good job of scraping as much off the glass as possible.
-Since I already do 10% water changes per week I jump it to 20% if i am going to be gone longer than 3-4 days.
-Powerheads, baffles etc cleaned and cleared.
-Pumps cleared and cleaned (my routine is to clean these anyway but I usually add a cleaning if i am gone for more than 4 days)
-Heater, Although I keep 2 in the sump I take one out and put it in the display.
-Check timers for lights
-Fill auto top off and dose 1/2 of what i would normally dose just in case something goes wrong.
-Clean up salt creep everywhere but specifically around anything that moves or carries water.
-Tangs love Algae so I usually tank a clump of my sump algae and put it under a rock.
-Target feed all corals just before leaving.
-Check water params
-Make enough salt water (in my case 20 gallons) to have on hand in the event you come home to less than ideal conditions you can get things back on track quickly
-Make enough RODI water so that you have more than you normally need on hand, you never know especially with evaporation of the saltwater you make.
-Anything longer than 4 days I add some additional bugs (copepods and amphipods) to the display and sump as a just in case food source.
I would love to hear what others do in addition to what I listed. Also, anyone thinking something I have listed shouldnt be there or should be done another way please share that as well!
