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Enthusiastic "Re-Beginner"
The early stages of fishless cycling are the luckier times to be gone on vacation. First of all, just leaving it for a week is not likely to set you back much and is not a big deal if it does. As you get closer to time to leave you will know whether you've happened to have enough initial bacteria that regular drops in ammonia level are beginning to happen and based on that you may be able to optimize your situation further.
If the ammonia level is just basically still sitting there at 4 to 5ppm or whatever or only going down very, very slowly then you hardly need anyone to re-dose it. If it is slowly going down over multiple days then you could opt to have someone dose it mid-week or every couple days or such. If you happen to have an interested person then you of course could train them up in what you yourself are doing and have them come in a couple times, test ammonia and dose as necessary.
Another nice addition if no one will come in much or at all would be to grind up a medium small pinch of flake food and swirl it in to the water before you leave. This will slowly break down over the week and provide a little ammonia plus it will have the benefit of a bit more organic complication, which can also help the bacteria sometimes.
WD
If the ammonia level is just basically still sitting there at 4 to 5ppm or whatever or only going down very, very slowly then you hardly need anyone to re-dose it. If it is slowly going down over multiple days then you could opt to have someone dose it mid-week or every couple days or such. If you happen to have an interested person then you of course could train them up in what you yourself are doing and have them come in a couple times, test ammonia and dose as necessary.
Another nice addition if no one will come in much or at all would be to grind up a medium small pinch of flake food and swirl it in to the water before you leave. This will slowly break down over the week and provide a little ammonia plus it will have the benefit of a bit more organic complication, which can also help the bacteria sometimes.
WD