Ei Dosing And Holiday Coming Up....

[mattlee]

i am due to go away for a few days and wondered what was the best way to deal with my tank....

im dosing EI and usually do a 50% water change every monday. the tank gets dosed monday - saturday with ferts with sunday the rest day. i also add liquid carbon everyday.

my neighbour is ok to feed the fish while im away and hopefully dose the ferts at the right levels too!!! but i will miss the monday water change. is this ok?

whats the best thing to do?

 

[stu40]

When i went away for 2 weeks recently
did 50% water change day or so before leaving.Turned lighting down to 4 hours.
Stopped ferts & carbon.
make light the limiting factor, hope the CO[sub]2 [/sub]from the water change sees you through.
It worked for me but i stand to be corrected.

stu

edit:no algae when i returned.Slowly upped the lighting when i got back.Started dosing again.

 

[tomtomtom1230]

I went away for two weeks (I use the EI method in my low tech set up, dosing liquid carbon every other day, feeding them every other day) and all I needed to do was get my girlfriend to plop some trace elements in on day 7 and feed the fish twice (once for each week I was away). I have a timer for the lights so that wasn't an issue. I reduced the light from 9.5 hours a day to 6 hours a day. Job done. A few days will be fine

Personally, I would do your Monday water change earlier (ie: the day before you go away) and leave everything. Dose the ferts you normally dose during the water change but I wouldn't even bother feeding the fish whilst you are away. Fish are usually OK for up to 10 days before their bodies will need to consume food. And when you get back, hold of changing any water until the following Monday.