Only let people who know what they're doing watch your tank.

[AnDr3w]

This happened a last summer but decided to share anyway.

Well I went to New York for three weeks. My tank was relativly new at around three months old. I had cichlids only and catfish I believe but im not sure it was a while back. But any way, my dad has a timer on his tank to make the lights go on and off. Well my cousin watch my tank. What I got out of it, she thought I had a timer also, but, I didn't. So she fed my fish twice; and my fish were babies! Like at 1.5 inches TOPS! My tank was gross! Smelled bad, FULL of algae, smells, I couldn't even see two inches in my tank, literally. How about this. Not one of my fish died. Most were laying on the gravel, but they all survived. I almost threw up of the smell and sight of my tank. It was a terrible experiance. So the moral of the story is get someone who knows what there doing to watch your tank.

:WTF:

Those were my emotions.

 

[milkman407]

The person watching my tanks had a 30long and said fish only grow to the size of their tanks...

I have my tanks numbered, and on a board it says what days to feed them and how much... If i come back and 1 fish is dead i will be wanting money!!

 

[Kobi9019]

This happened a last summer but decided to share anyway.

Well I went to New York for three weeks. My tank was relativly new at around three months old. I had cichlids only and catfish I believe but im not sure it was a while back. But any way, my dad has a timer on his tank to make the lights go on and off. Well my cousin watch my tank. What I got out of it, she thought I had a timer also, but, I didn't. So she fed my fish twice; and my fish were babies! Like at 1.5 inches TOPS! My tank was gross! Smelled bad, FULL of algae, smells, I couldn't even see two inches in my tank, literally. How about this. Not one of my fish died. Most were laying on the gravel, but they all survived. I almost threw up of the smell and sight of my tank. It was a terrible experiance. So the moral of the story is get someone who knows what there doing to watch your tank.

:WTF:

Those were my emotions.

I had a family friend, who has his own 75 gallon, watch my tank about a year and a half ago for a week in the summer and I had it running for a year with great water quality, and crystal clear and the whole time, including cycling, I lost maybe 5 fish. Anyways I get back and it's covered with uneaten food and detritus, most of my fish are dead, and covered in white slime and everything's a mess. It was awfull and took months to fix so now when I go on vacation I feed the fish till they can't eat anymore before I leave on vacation and have my cousin come and feed them once during the middle of the week. It works much better

 

[WyldFya]

If your fish are healthy, they should be able to go a couple weeks without being fed without any problems.

One thing I feel like mentioning, the fry from my different fish get fed 4-8 times every day.

 

[MrFisher]

If your fish are healthy, they should be able to go a couple weeks without being fed without any problems.

One thing I feel like mentioning, the fry from my different fish get fed 4-8 times every day.

Knowledge is POWER
........................ they could have gone more than even a couple weeks

 

[Bderick67]

Back when I was a kid I had a couple of tiger oscars in a 55g, We went on vaca. and had the neighbor kid watch/feed them. Got back fish were fine but found out a couple days later, he was catching my fish with a fishin pole...then I got grounded for puttin' a knot on his head.

Keep a healthy tank, that way when you have to leave. it can survive a couple weeks of neglect.

 

[rockinthe40ounce]

that sucks, i dont trust anyone with my tanks

 

[AnDr3w]

If your fish are healthy, they should be able to go a couple weeks without being fed without any problems.

One thing I feel like mentioning, the fry from my different fish get fed 4-8 times every day.

Right my fish are little, and thats what I was saying you know? Theyre so small and got fed 3 times. Shame. But at least they all survived. Its all better now. But what i did do was was a 100% water change(yes one hundred)(I know it was a mistake now, but they all survived). Soaped all the ornaments, and cleaned the tank. I knew soap is a killer, literally, but I scrubbed them up, rinsed them under running water, let them soak in new water for 6 hours, dryed them, put new water in the sink and let them soak for about a day. It worked amazingly great. The soap was all gone and my ornaments looked brand new. I've done it a number of times now and never lost a fish in the process.

 

[benckie]

i had a black ghost knife i used to hand feed my sister once scrubed the bath room and dunny and kitchen i rember her saying it made her hands dry and sore from the chemicals so she said she would put some hand cream on i whent out side for a smoke and a coffee then whent out i came back and my bgk was dead she had hand feed it with all that crap on her hands lols...........................................................................................................................................................

 

[Derpeder]

I had a friend stay at my house once. I wasn't even gone but I had to go to work. He fed my fish about 6 times that day and not in small portions. I got pissed and yelled at him cause he was bragging about it to my roommates.

That Nugget Killed two of my cichlids, their bellys were just bloated. I was NOT HAPPY.