Not gonna feed my Dats for a week...

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STONEDFISH

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I'm going to visit my parents in Texas and I'm going to be gone from this Saturday to next Friday. Not gonna feed anything. Last time I tried to have someone feed my fish I lost 3 Frontosa and a Leichardti Arowana.

What do you think?

stndfsh:D
 
one good power feeding and water chnge before you go and you should be fine...
 
Agreed with all the above ^
 
Should be fine. I have a thinbar that hasn't eaten in 3 months :WHOA:
 
a week is fine.

i did the exact same thing you did with asking a friend. he ended up feeding my fish dead rottening smelly black worms. luckily it didnt wipe out my tank and only killed a couple of dats. he keeps fish too and i even told him to get me some new black worms if they died.
 
Bogwoodbruce;1363581; said:
Just feed them a lot do a W/C and they should be fine.


Ditto.. this is my routine when I leave for a couple weeks. one week should be nothing. I pump em' up for a few weeks before my trip and stop feeding them 3 days prior, and do 75%WC every day up until my trip. More important to have clean water than full bellies.
 
What else is in the tank? They wont starve in a weeks time, but if they are use to eating every day, they may try eating some smaller sized fish that normally they would leave alone.

Happened to a friend.
 
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