10 Day Vacation

HI guys, I am leaving for 10 days on vacation.
I have a 10 gallon with a divided tank, 2 bettas, 3 nerite snails, water at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and 5-10 ppm.
I also have a 50 gallon with a school of danios, glass catfish and buenos aires tetras and small common pleco (planning to rehome or move to bigger tank). The water readings are the same as the 10 gallon.
Will they be okay for the time I am gone. My dad will be here to feed them, but I rather him not do water changes to the tanks.
How often should they be feed since I am gone ?

 

HI guys, I am leaving for 10 days on vacation.
I have a 10 gallon with a divided tank, 2 bettas, 3 nerite snails, water at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and 5-10 ppm.
I also have a 50 gallon with a school of danios, glass catfish and buenos aires tetras and small common pleco (planning to rehome or move to bigger tank). The water readings are the same as the 10 gallon.
Will they be okay for the time I am gone. My dad will be here to feed them, but I rather him not do water changes to the tanks.
How often should they be feed since I am gone ?

Does he know how much to feed them?
If you do a water change before you leave, they will be fine even without feeding. Healthy fish should be able to go a few weeks without food.

 

What I would do it fill them up with blood worms the day before you leave, do water change, then you don't have to feed until you get back.

 

Does he know how much to feed them?
If you do a water change before you leave, they will be fine even without feeding. Healthy fish should be able to go a few weeks without food.

Yes I tell him to feed them very little, not too much, as little as to where each gets a little bit is good enough. I tend to feed them every few days as I've heard stories of overfeeding fish.

What I would do it fill them up with blood worms the day before you leave, do water change, then you don't have to feed until you get back.

Thanks Sarah! I could definitely do that.

 

Thanks Sarah! I could definitely do that.

Glad to help!

 

I’m on day 1 of a 9 day vacation.

In the past I had a co worker feed every 3rd day out of premeasured plastic containers. Worked fine.

This time he’s on vacation too so they get a 9 day fast, longest ever for my fish.

Probably have the cleanest tanks ever, seems that’s the case after 3 day weekends.

 

For 10 days i'd mostly be worried about the water in the 10 gallon evaporating and getting low. It should not be that low. Also bettas can go without food for 14 days. Your tanks should be fine. I am gona for a month and my family is doing water changes. I typed out instructions anf my step dad has had a tank before.

 

My tank was fine for a 2 week vacation, I just made sure to do a water change and check that everything was working before I left.
I never just let the person caring for them decide how much to feed them. Overfeeding could lead to an ammonia spike, which you won't be home to prevent. I have those weekly plastic pill containers, and I put the correct amount of food in for each day. That way all the person has to do is dump the food in.

 

Some suggestions here you may find useful Members Going On VACATION

 

sarah73 has the simplest solution. For these very occasions, I invested in an auto top off system to compensate for evaporation and to fertalize my plants.

P.S. auto feeders are cheap and worth it.