Traveling, No Idea What To Do About Tanks

MyLifeAquatic
  • #1
I was wondering what to do about my tanks over the holidays. I will be away for about a week, and am unable to have someone check on the tanks while I'm gone. Any suggestions are welcome!
Here's what I currently have:
Two 2 gallon tanks with a betta in each
And a 25 gallon community tank with 7 zebra danios, 6 serpaes, 1 bristlenose pleco, 1 nerite snail, and 2 mystery snails
 
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Dycofree
  • #2
You’ll obviously be fine on water changes, so really the main thing you’ll need to worry about is feeding. You can find vacation feeders at almost any pet store. Lots of brands too. Many are made to last a week, which would be perfect. Just drop them in, and they slowly release the food over that time. Works like a charm.
 
Thunder_o_b
  • #3
Fish can go several days not eating. If it is going to be more than 4 or five days and there is no one that you can ask to feed them once, then your only option that I can see is to have an aquarium service do it.

EDIT: I am not a fan of the drop in feeders. Very messy....Or they were when I tried them around 100 years ago

There are mechanical feeders but I know nothing about them.

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tokiodreamy
  • #4
Fish can go two weeks without food.

My suggestion:
Do a water change the day before you leave and do one when you come back on all your tanks.
Feed the day you leave and feed the day you come back
Leave a veggie in the 25 for the snails and pleco. Maybe split this in two so the pleco doesn't hog it.

You’ll obviously be fine on water changes, so really the main thing you’ll need to worry about is feeding. You can find vacation feeders at almost any pet store. Lots of brands too. Many are made to last a week, which would be perfect. Just drop them in, and they slowly release the food over that time. Works like a charm.
Vacation feeders are dangerous and should never be used. They're constantly releasing ammonia into the tank that the filters are not used to. Vacation feeders cause a lot of ammonia spikes and deaths in tanks.
A week is more than fine without food and if need be, a timer feeder can be purchased.
 
david1978
  • #5
Agree a week to 10 days with out food is fine. They will be hungry when you get home but not starved.
 

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