Daily Care and weekly tank maintenance (2 Viewers)

[codesman]

I was just asked by my employer to work for a year out of state. I declined citing the expense of a daily sitter and a weekly maintenance company to take care of my livestock/tank would be cost prohibitive for me. The company is on the smaller side and I have a feeling they might ask again, prepared to pay for such services for me. Does anyone know a good Twin cities based daily tank sitter, a good maintenance company, and about what the monthly rates are? I REALLY don't want to take down the tank. I live in Vadnais Heights.

 

[ichthyogeek]

I asked a former UMN student to fish sit for me for a few weeks over the holidays. I paid her roughly $30/day for an hour's work every day on average. If I could pay her more, I would tbh. DM me your contact info and I can pass it on to her so she can reach out?

I asked my sitter to do the following on a daily/weekly basis:
Weekly:
* Fill autofeeders with fish food
* do water changes using premixed water
Daily:
* Feed fish frozen food
* Feed fish baby brine shrimp
* do fish counts (check if anything's dead)
* water plants/top off tanks as needed.

You can also like, call Rivershore, New Wave, etc. Most of the stores have maintenance accounts.

 

[Bschowa]

Will there be other people in the house that can visually check the tank who could be trusted to see if anything looks wrong/alarms are going off?

I occasionally have had to work out of town for a couple weeks at a time in the past where I did not have that so the tank was by itself. Auto feeder/top off was a life saver and instead of paying someone to look at the tank daily I setup nest cameras with all sorts of angles where I could check on anything I wanted at any time, orange tint/filters clean up the image, cameras on the tank, sump,skimmer and then having them alert to noises and send a message if they heard anything I was able to know if there was alerts on my apex going off odd sounds anything really.

You could then have new wave or a trusted friend on call for an emergency.

It sounds like you will be gone and not coming back for a while and in that case I would talk to Jen at new wave and maybe setup a service where they do water changes and fill feeders so that your automation does the heavy lifting and they are just there for water changes/ scraping glass