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One is already underneath with just the tip of the shell showing!Don’t be surprised if they disappear into the gravel, that’s be design and where snails like to breed. They are chasing the food.
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We don’t have a happy clownfish today, but absolutely no visible reason why and water fine. Hopefully having an off day.
New coral added and starfish spotted out for the first time:
Edit: our clownfish was fine the next day. Must have had an off day I guess. More fish in September. A few corals in the meantime.
New coral added and starfish spotted out for the first time:
Edit: our clownfish was fine the next day. Must have had an off day I guess. More fish in September. A few corals in the meantime.
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Soldato
What fish you got sometimes not feeding is better
clown loach and some tetras with 2 11" plecs, 4 angels, and some other little fish.
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I used to use this one.
EasyFeed Automatic Feeder
The JUWEL automatic feeder can be used in any aquarium. Using the right mounting support, it can be fitted particularly simply and quickly to any JUWEL aquarium. It can be programmed for two feeding cycles a day and allows you to feed your fish at intervals of six hours. The volume of the...
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Its ok providing you crunch up the food first and make the slate at the smallest. Otherwise it dumps a lot into the tank.
Nowadays I have to have a fish carer come round due to my tank being an aquascape and needing daily ferts etc..
I used to use this one.
EasyFeed Automatic Feeder
The JUWEL automatic feeder can be used in any aquarium. Using the right mounting support, it can be fitted particularly simply and quickly to any JUWEL aquarium. It can be programmed for two feeding cycles a day and allows you to feed your fish at intervals of six hours. The volume of the...
Its ok providing you crunch up the food first and make the slate at the smallest. Otherwise it dumps a lot into the tank.
Nowadays I have to have a fish carer come round due to my tank being an aquascape and needing daily ferts etc..
yes i am thinking just ask someone to feed the fish once every 2 days and leave the light off ?
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do you not have the light on some sort of timer (device/bluetooth app)?
Soldato
If your fish all look healthy, simply give them one generous feed before you go.
That's my policy when we go away for 5 days now, I used to ask family/friend to pop in and almost everytime I did I came back to at least one dead fish. But all good after being "starved."
My tanks get a "famine Tuesday" every week anyway, because like many others, I'm sure I slightly overfeed adult fish. The only only exception recently has been feeding my ~13 year old Leopard Bushfish, netted him/her out of the African 6-footer a while ago and I thought I was netting out a dead fish, amazing how well they have recovered while sharing a 4-footer with a ~10 year old Rubbernose Plec for ~8 weeks now.
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must admit i have left them for 4 days before but never a week, i only feed them once a day and very very rarely twice.
yes but may just leave the curtain open a tad as and when the sun passes as its in the living room
I had one of those, I broke it and how use a Oase one but its very similar. I do find that even on the minimum settings, too much food comes out if you are using small/micro pellets. Flake doesn't work, way too inconsistent, sometimes you get nothing, other times it seems to dump loads in. I find standard Fluval tropical bug bites tend to dispense consistently and appropriately for my 80L tank on the lowest setting.I used to use this one.
EasyFeed Automatic Feeder
The JUWEL automatic feeder can be used in any aquarium. Using the right mounting support, it can be fitted particularly simply and quickly to any JUWEL aquarium. It can be programmed for two feeding cycles a day and allows you to feed your fish at intervals of six hours. The volume of the...
Fish are definitely fine not to be fed every day and I don't usually feed mine every day.
It is fish dependent but as a general rule, if its less than a week then they'll probably be fine. If it is more than a week then you'll need a feeder of some kind. I don't ask anyone to do it because they always over feed. The one time I did do it, I portioned food into one of those pill organisers with clear instructions of no more than one section a day and 4 times each week was sufficient.
If you have something a bit more finicky or fish that can get aggressive to smaller fish in the tank when not fed up then you'll also need to consider that.
You can turn the light off if you like but unless the curtains are closed, its still going to be light at this time of year. I'd just leave it.
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We have this auto feeder on the smallest setting feeding twice a day for times when I’m not around:
www.swelluk.com
It even has a fan or some such to keep the food dry.
Eheim Autofeeder
Automatic fish feeder that can dispense up to four meals a day 100ml capacity Simple programming for feeding intervals
www.swelluk.com
It even has a fan or some such to keep the food dry.
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I went from having 0 aquariums to having 3, I have a 60x30x30cm, a 60x35x35cm and here is my newest tank, it's a 90x40x40cm. Here it was before it was planted etc.
