What's the longest amount of time you've been away from your Reef Tank?

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For me.... 2 weeks. But I have an Apex and family member who came over to feed da fish

I checked my Apex and Wyze camera every morning and night from 800 miles away
 

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10 days for me last summer. Most of my stuff for the tank is automated and I had my parents come to my house daily to feed the fish and check on other animals.
 

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3 weeks for me. Had the wife doing the feeding and weekly water changes. I wrote down everything she needed to do and showed her my daily routine for a couple weeks leading up to my absence.
Upon my return I found half the container of Reef Roids gone, corals larger than ever and her bragging that it only took her 5 minutes to do the water change.
Come to find out she fed the corals Reef Roids every day and didn't mix any salt in the RODI water for water changes (that's why they were so quick). Haha
Phosphates were through the roof but everything in the tank seemed happy - nothing that a couple weeks of slight adjustments couldn't fix to get everything back in order.

Those corals sure loved all the extra food...
 

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12 days with my tank on auto pilot and I was on the other side of the planet. Checked it daily, but it did well.
 

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77 days when I was doing some work in Puerto Rico after the hurricane. Thank goodness for apex, auto water change, auto feeder, and a few people to fill the water change barrels monthly, and the fish feeder as well as just to check in on a few things.

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3 weeks for training.
and regularly 2 weeks for vacation.
apex plus reefer friend to feed and top off ATO. Feeding does get reduced to every couple days but there has always been plenty of life for fish to eat in my tanks.
 

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3-4 weeks!

Had cameras on everything and someone coming over every other day to feed!
 

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8 weeks and counting. I’ll be home soon. No apex, one of my employees checks alk twice per week and makes adjustments, and my 81 year old dad is staying at the house with the fish and the dog. Sorry about the crappy iPad pic. I’ll see what it looks like when I get home.
 

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7 weeks. I am a college student so had to leave it for winter break and January term. I didn't have an apex at that time so I hooked up my auto top-off with a 30 gallon container of RODI water, auto-feeder, said a little prayer and left for home about 1,000 miles away. They lock down the dorms so there wasn't even anyone that could keep an eye on it. When I came back, I had better growth over those 7 weeks than when I did weekly changes and actively took care of things.
 

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2 weeks in Greece. I was nervous upon leaving and returning, the 13 days otherwise, the tank left me lol. Thankfully we went over the feeding and top off of water, with my neighbour friend, nothing is automated here. A bit of algae scrub and all good....good neighbour!!!
 

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12days...auto feeder and a neighbor who would dump a couple gallons rodi into the tank every 5 days...75 gallon tank no sump. Next time I will get him to does alk and cal. Extremely low when I returned, a little algae on the glass but nothing worse for ware..
 

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12days...auto feeder and a neighbor who would dump a couple gallons rodi into the tank every 5 days...75 gallon tank no sump. Next time I will get him to does alk and cal. Extremely low when I returned, a little algae on the glass but nothing worse for ware..
Sounds like you and I are on same page.....no sump, good neighbour's lol.
 

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So far only 5 days, had a friend who does tank maintenance come over and feed, check tanks. Maybe 2 weeks sometime this summer.
 

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