wontonflip
I failed Kobayashi Maru
Do you guys think my 45g FOWLR, which has a sump and fuge, 30-40lbs of lr, live sand, and only 4 fish survive 2 weeks without a skimmer?
I've got a delimma where we're leaving for 2 weeks. I have my neighbor's kid coming in and feeding the fish and topping off my tank. I'm concerned about my utube, which might get too much air in it, and he won't know how to restart it (nor would I ask him to suck it out and risk gulping dirty fish water like i do sometimes LOL). It gets air bubbles because my return pump is really crappy.
I don't have the funds right now to buy a newer stronger one, so I thought if I took my rio from my skimmer, it would prevent the air bubbles from forming in the utube. I used this pump before to test the return and MAN it was STRONG. Strong enough to push any bubbles through the Utube. But of course this would mean no skimmer for 2 weeks.
What do you guys think? I've also premeasured and prerinsed the food, so he just has to thaw each li'l baggie and dump in....so he can't overfeed.
I've got a delimma where we're leaving for 2 weeks. I have my neighbor's kid coming in and feeding the fish and topping off my tank. I'm concerned about my utube, which might get too much air in it, and he won't know how to restart it (nor would I ask him to suck it out and risk gulping dirty fish water like i do sometimes LOL). It gets air bubbles because my return pump is really crappy.
I don't have the funds right now to buy a newer stronger one, so I thought if I took my rio from my skimmer, it would prevent the air bubbles from forming in the utube. I used this pump before to test the return and MAN it was STRONG. Strong enough to push any bubbles through the Utube. But of course this would mean no skimmer for 2 weeks.
What do you guys think? I've also premeasured and prerinsed the food, so he just has to thaw each li'l baggie and dump in....so he can't overfeed.