Not gonna feed my Dats for a week...

[STONEDFISH]

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

 

[JD7.62]

As long as they are healthy they should be just fine!

 

[Nic]

one good power feeding and water chnge before you go and you should be fine...

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

Agreed with all the above ^

 

[vanimate]

Should be fine. I have a thinbar that hasn't eaten in 3 months

 

[sQwiReL]

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]

Just feed them a lot do a W/C and they should be fine.

 

[greyhoundfan]

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.

 

[TCZeli]

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.

 

[STONEDFISH]

The tank has 2 IT, a Leopard Bushfish, a Frontosa, and a Yellow Pleco. I have some plants in there too...they might get chewed up.

stndfsh