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Looks like I might make a last ninute descion o to a wedding.. When I still said I still wasn't going, my mom says WHAT?!!. So maybe I will go after all...it will be a week. I have a very bad feeling that if I don't go, I won't hear the end of it. I may have to pull an all nighters to take care of things 8sighs*

I have an autofeeder here I can use to feed the apartment fish, I used it during a week long vacation and it worked great.

I think I'm going to go ahead and move the quarantining loaches a bit earlier then planned, They didn't eat the first few days I got them out of moving stress...so I feel uneasy about letting them go a whole week without any food now. Hope they are ok.

Also I found out there' another inspection planned at the end of the week two days before we get back ( I hate these more frequent inspections). So it's going to be better if I only have one tank running with fish as per house regulations.

I dislike taking fish out of quarantine early, but if you must...
Move the fish soon, so they have several days or a week to acclimate to the new tank, and you can watch them. If they have to be moved back to the Q-tank, you ought to know within a few days.
Can you put a variety of foods in the feeder? Some sinking pellets and some flakes or some other assortment so all the fish have the possibility of something to eat. A little bit a granulated garlic may tempt the appetites of the picky fish. I would set up the feeder to only dose about 1/2 the normal amount of food, then wasted food is kept to a minimum. (Hungry fish will seek out the fallen bits, and more eagerly eat the food when it does fall into the tank)
Add lots of plants to the tank. Anacharis is edible to many fish, and this may supplement their diet while you are away. The extra plants will also help remove some of the ammonia.