What to do When I go on vacation

[Jared T]

Hi I am not sure if there are threads on this already but I am wondering what I can do when I go on vacation about my fish. I have a small clown knife and 2 catfish. What do you guys do when you go on vacation about feeding your fish. I am the only fish guy in my family and my fish need to be hand fed( they are spoiled


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[Llamalord]

Well it really depends how long you'll be gone for. But a good way to get them set is to do a real good wc and give them a decent amount of food before you leave. They won't starve very fast, if you're worried you can stock the tank with feeders they can catch while you're gone.

 

[anarekist]

fish can go for weeks without food in the wild. i actually went on vacation a couple of weeks ago and only lost one fish to prolly getin eaten by my pbb. just did a huge water change before i left and starved them a few days before so they have nothing to foul the water with while im away.

 

[Jared T]

Ok I will be gone a week but they are used to being fed every day


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[ecoli73]

This summer, I will be gone for a month. I have done this before and the fish survived fine with an auto feeder(that tank was an overpopulated mbuna tank).

With my current tank, I did a few things: purchased additional auto feeders so I can drop difference types of food in; bought lots of portos to help with nitrate; starting to do larger WC to reduce nitrate and pray there are nothing catastrophic happens while I am away.