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Hello Reefers! I need serious advice on how to handle a long trip, with a new-ish reef tank, that is doing very well... but not "3+ weeks-with-no-water-change-or-dosing" well... 20 gal long, 4 small fish, snail/hermit CUC, soft and LPS corals. I am currently doing a 30%-50% water change once a...

Hi everyone, I got a Scooter Blenny for a few months now, since October to be exact, in my 20gal waterbox. She is doing amazing, always hunting for food but eats also very well frozen artemia. She always even swims to the top by the spot I drop the artemia in. I also have tried to feed her...

Finally feeling ok enough to talk about this as coming back from 2-weeks in Europe, I returned to my fish tank with the vast majority of my fish community completely obliterated. I’m still a little numb to all this, constantly waivering between exiting the hobby and trying to salvage and...

I have to go on a vacation for a week and won't be able to feed all my fish. I don't have anyone who can feed them so what do i do? Will they be okay for 7 days without food?

Hey guys this is a quite annoying scenario for me but i want opinions from anyone on possible ideas, so I had decided to finally add fish to my tank lucky me after all the work cycling it it was finally ready yay! Turns out one of my little inhabitants has come down with what im almost sure is...

Hey guys in a few months my family is going on a 9 day vacation, I have a 13.5 gallon evo and was wondering what do I need to get for it while on vacation aside from a timer for lights and an automatic fish food feeder, with my freshwater tanks going on vacation for two weeks was always nothing...

This summer I am going on a 2 week vacation. I am wondering what to do with my fish tank. I have to ocellaris clowns, a shrimp, and an astraea snail. To have an automatic fish feeder I would have to take the lid off, which would result in way too much evaporation. My choices are to put them all...

I’m planing on starting a new saltwater aquarium for the first time, I have done a lot of research and it seems the hobby needs weekly if not daily maintenance once the tank is established. I will most likely get Red Sea 350 with the sump but nothing like monitoring system or dosing system yet...

Hey, I’m going on vacation Friday through Sunday. I can feed my fish Friday morning and Sunday night. But in between I can’t feed them (Obviously). Would the Clownfish x2 and my Fire Shrimp x1 be ok for the time period of about 48 hours with no food? Or should I ask one of my friends to come and...

Knowing we had a Jamaica holiday coming up, beginning this past Dec. 27, I did all my maintenance… equipment checks, ATO check and fill, auto-feeder set up…a few days before Christmas. Put a limited amount of floss in my filter cups and dialled the skimmer back. We were in Jamaica till Jan 4...

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So I went on vacation this past week to Hawaii (which was amazing btw, if you are a reefer I recommend going at least once in your life). I was gone for a total of 9 days. Before I left, I had everything in order - I hadn't changed or added anything to my 90 gallon reef in about two weeks, which...

I usually take a one-week vacation, but I want to see what options are for a worst-case scenario for a 1-month vacation. My plan is to make one month's worth of RODI water and have it ready. I'll teach someone (or a couple of people) how to mix it so they can come once a week to do a water...

Hello! I will be going away on vacation in around two weeks for 10 days and I'm considering getting an auto top off system to control the salinity while I'm gone. But there's a catch! My return pump is set to pulse mode and the sump water level changes. Will an auto top system work in my sump...

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So I went away for the weekend only to return to a cloudy tank, come to find out a fish had died while I was gone, when I got back my water was cloudy and my ammonia was sky high, my corals were all closed up and some have melted, I have been dosing bacteria and am guard every day and doing 10...

I usually go on two vacations each year (ranging from 1 to 2 weeks). I’m also frequently away at least 1 or 2 weekends each month. What would you advise for equipment on a tank between 20 - 40 gallons? This would influence if I went for a sump or AIO. Skimmer overflow sensor, refugium, leak...

Hello, So I’m going on a vacation next week for four days. I have already found a “fish sitter”, so to speak, but he’s pretty inexperienced, so I told him to feed my fish pellets instead of mysis. My clownfish eat pellets just fine, but that’s part of the problem. Before my royal gramma gets a...

I’m going on a vacation for 3 days for Christmas, and am wondering if my tank would be alright? It is a biocube 32 and I have 2 clowns and a small melanurus wrasse. I was also wondering how I would be able to hook up an auto feeder to the tank, as the hood is still on and I do not see where an...

I need some advise. I’m relatively new to reefing, I bought a stocked used tank ~5 months ago and I yesterday I’ve headed out of town for the first time. Last night, my fish watchers called me and said the lights weren’t on. I checked the APEX and it showed the lights still on ‘auto.’...

I have gone on vacation and explained to the caretakers what to do in the situation of evaporation, food, dosing, etc. Sadly every time I come back to the corals unhappy and fish hiding pale in the rockwork. Just recently the pumps went out becouse of evaporation and before the caretaker could...

Hello, I've been doing some research over the past week about getting into the hobby and starting my own nano. I love scuba diving and had a tank when I was a kid and would love to get back into the hobby. I'm so overwhelmed by all of the different pieces of equipment, steps, etc. necessary to...

Hey guys, first post. I do not have my 40 breeder setup but this December I will and will be putting a dwarf lionfish in there and have the tank based around him. I hope to get him to eat frozen food eventually. My question is how long can he go without eating when I’m on vacation? And if it is...

You heard it right...I’m leaving my tank virtually unattended for 3 months. I am currently 2 weeks into the 3 month hiatus. I’ve already left the tank for a stint of 10 days in the past without issue. Since then, dosing has been dialed in along with most everything else and the feeding has been...

I am going to go on a trip this fall & am interested in a webcam for my tank. A friend will check on/feed my fish every other day. But I also want some webcam ( “budget friendly” )that could link to my android phone and my ipad. I want to be able to view my Display tank (to check on my fish)...