Fertilization on vacation

[wolfiewill]

Now that I've got a workable dosing regime, I need to consider what to do when I'm on vacation. What is the conventional way of managing not dosing for 3 or 4 weeks. I've got too many tanks to consider dosing pumps, so I'm considering reducing photoperiod from 10 to 3 or 4 hours per day and leaving the plants to fend for themselves for the entire time (I've got someone to feed the livestock).

[charlie]

Reducing your light intensity should also help, it did for me when i was gone for a week.

[exv152]

Reducing the light intensity is a good idea as suggested, and the duration too. When I've gone away I've asked the person feeding my fish to also dose dry ferts. I divided the dry ferts by the days of the week, and just put them in a pillbox, and it worked out fine.

[wolfiewill]

Sounds good. Thanks. I hadn't thought of adding ferts dry. Perhaps that's what I'll do. The combination of smaller doses and lower light will do the trick, eh.