Ideas for feeding fish while away for 1 week

[plug]

I will be going away for a week in the near future, and am wondering what to do in terms of food for my fish
My options are do nothing (as I understand fish can go for a longer period of time with out food)
Or get those vacation feeder blocks that disperse food over the course of a few days

I do not have an automatic feeder, and nobody is available to come and feed them

Ideas welcome.

 

[Tom97]

I would say to put in a feeder block so that food is available and also even if they don't eat it like you said they can go along time without food and still be completely fine

 

[APColorado]

I've left my fish for an entire week without feeding and they were fine. I've never tried the feeder blocks but heard they pollute the water.

 

[Moneypenny1967]

Same as above.We go camping at Christmas and have I have left fish a 1/2 feeder block and then been away for 9 days.Came back to fish all still alive and well, but really need to give tank a good clean and gravel vacc to get it back to normal.7 days with no food should be fine.

 

[ednaeel]

Fish can go without food for a few weeks at least.

 

[plug]

Thanks for the suggestions, I will take up your advise and leave them as is

 

[Dolfan]

If you were looking into a automatic feeder, or anyone else was, I recently got one that is very good, and doesn't have the problems that I read about other with clumping and portion size. Here is a link...



I couldn't find this from Bigalspets.com or kensfish.com whom I normally order from, but this sight was the cheapest I found, and at $20 plus some shipping was very cheap. If you notice in the picture it has a little wheel with 14 compartments. You put exactly the amount you want in each compartment for each feeding. You can program it for 1-4 feedings per day. At 1 per day, you will be good for 2 weeks. You can use flakes, pellets, or algae wafers. I used it a while back when I was gone for a week just to be on the safe side, and it did it's job great. I even set it up a few days in advance just to be home and watch it work for a few days before I left town, at was very reliable and trustworthy.

As many suggest fish are usually good for while with no food, I just thought that for a week, may be a bit too long, so wanted to be safe rather than sorry. Shrimp can go even longer if you have a mature tank with some algae and bio-film for them to feed on.