Vacation Woes...Suggestions?

So i am going on an adventure vacation/job for 2-3 months. I have a 29 biocube with bak-pak cpr2 skimmer. The lighting is on an automatic timer.
Currently the tank is stocked with:
Black Onyx True Percula
Greenbanded Goby
Yellow Watchman Goby
Tiger Pistol Shrimp

Haitian Condyactalis
Variety of Zoas
Variety of Mushrooms
Encrusting Orange Monti
Kenya Leather
Pulsing Xenia
Hydnophora (Encrusting Horn Coral)
Hammer Coral
Blue Clove Polyps

So here's the dilemma. I leave in 10 days and have no ATO and no one to take care of the tank. I will be taking the Nem to a LFS , as i can't run the risk of it nuking the tank. I am looking to make an ATO that will keep the tank sustained for about 2-3 months. My salinity runs at 1.024. Evaporation is around 3/4 gallon a week.
Besides the ATO i will be building, i was also thinking of an automatic fish feeder. Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks guys.. im totally at a lost here.

 

pay anyone to come learn and take care of the tank...without someone there for 3 months...almost a guarantee you will come home to a demolished tank

 

2-3 months solely on a ATO and auto fish feeder, OUCH, I hope someone has a good idea, but that sounds hard to pull off. I'd say, go talk to your LFS and see if they have someone that will fish sit for ya. I know my LFS will. They'll come as much as needed and its rather affordable. Prob not much more than the equipment you're getting ready to buy

 

Yea what cosmo said some1 from your lfs will probably do it for a reasonable price

 

Yea i had thought of a LFS owner who would most likely help. Only problem is the tank is in my photography studio, which has quite a bit of expensive equipment in it and i'm a paranoid person
I know 2-3 months without someone is a stretch.
I will have someone who checks in on the studio whom i trust, but alas they seem unwilling (or too overwhelmed) to learn.
I have thought about asking my LFS to "babysit" the corals...take them there to do put in their display tank. That would just leave the livestock.

 

Id leave the corals before the fish, most your corals are rather hardy, IMOE, and a dead coral does a lot less damage than a dead fish may, debatable I know,

Can you not store your pricey equipment at home?

 

Hmm cosmo, you bring up a good point. I did not think of it that way. Granted corals are more expensive then fish though.

 

or better yet, take everything back to the LFS, and leave the tank running very minimal, so when ya get back its a mini cycle boost and ya can add most things back quick. A lot of options!

 

the person that doesn't want to learn, why don't you ask them to meet someone at your shop to care for the tank. than they can watch over and lock up when the other person leaves

 

IMO...you need to have it checked and maintained frequently..or you need to take it down and restart when you get back. Remember these are living organisms, not decorations...and you are responsible for their well being.