Feedings during Vacation

[Adrianna]

Hello, so I going out-of-town for about a week and I don't want to rely on someone coming to my house at least twice a day to feed my fish. I feed them frozen mysis and brine shrimp mixed with seaweed pellets for every feeding and of course seaweed sheets. Will they be okay if I get an autofeeder and just buy different pellets? Can I put my frozen shrimp in the autofeeder with a mix of pellets? Also, how much should I feed them while I'm gone if I can only give them pellets?

I have 2 clowns, 3 chromis, 4 anthias, 3 tangs, 1 coral beauty, 1 goby, 1 dartfish, 1 hawkfish, 1 cleaner wrasse, 1 leopard wrasse, 1 royal gramma, and 1 midas blenny, which are all pretty young still and not big.

I will be having my cousin come and check on them of course, but I need some help!

 

[Spare time]

You can't do frozen in an auto feeder. You can do pellets or flakes but I would highly recommend some extra hermit crabs or what not just incase you have leftover food.

 

[reef_ninja]

Never used an auto feeder, but putting frozen food in there sounds like a bad idea. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with feeding pellets and flake for a week at a time. You’ll have to play with it ahead of time to gauge how much to feed them, but generally feed less pellets than you would frozen

 

[Adrianna]

You can't do frozen in an auto feeder. You can do pellets or flakes but I would highly recommend some extra hermit crabs or what not just incase you have leftover food.

I do have 3 hermit crabs already. Will that be okay? My tank is 125 g.