Who takes care of your tank When your out of town?

[04scoobysti]

Well, it looks like everyone relys on a friend or family to do the dirty work when they're away.
It's looking like i might have to enlist one of my friends (all of which don't know a thing about maintaining a fish tank, let alone a reef tank.)
Looks like the training/recruiting is going to have to start ASAP so I'm ready for December.

Thanks for all your reply's. It would be pretty cool to see if someone has a completely self-sufficient tank with the exception of cleaning the glass (maybe someone did a DIY for that too)

[Skimmerking]

with my tank all i have to do is clean the glass for now until the trace element gods take over. that should be in about 2 months

[Doug]

Reef network. Doug & Mike.

We just cant go away at the same time.

My oldest always watched mine in Thompson, many moons ago. When I first moved here and lived in the country, I was pretty much {fill in the blank}.

Same as others, if I leave alone, my wife looks after it or my daughter. Or my other friend Mike, but he lives 20m out of town. But Mikey is back home, so ok now.

And I,m in the process of making my 90g easy to maintain.

[mark]

Just me gone the wife looks after the tank, both of, us her cousin stays over.

With a ATO and Ca reactor, it's really only to feed daily (though sure the tank could go longer) and empty out the skimmer cup every few days.

To prepare, I have a spare heater and power head available. The heater is to go into the tank if I was to loose the basement return pump (have CL for aeration) power head is for aeration if loose both the return and CL pumps. Gone over the generator with both the wife and the cousin but imagine I'll be getting a call then.

[Aquattro]

Good question. I'm gone for 9 days next month and haven't found a sitter...all I need it top off topped off, and feed every few days

[fiorano]

haha my grandpa usually comes over and does a pretty awesome job he likes the fish so i just get him to do it

[Drock169]

i havent gone away yet, but if i did i would trust raf to watch after my tank

[marie]

I just don't go out of town, but thats ok i'm pretty much a hermit anyway

[fishoholic]

If my boyfriend (saltaddict) and I are both gone we have his dad look after the tank and we have fellow canreef friends who he can call upon in an emergency situation.

[Keri]

My amazing father-in-law followed all of my (several pages) anal-retentive notes to a "T" on all of the tanks when we were gone 11 days in August and aside from cyano it was fine. I even put all of the frozen foods into 7-day pill boxes portioned for each day, dry as well, drew lines on the tanks where to top off to each day and labled Everything involving the tank with a black marker lol