vacation feeders
Frederick W. Reimer
ammonia good, ph 6.8--all fish happy, healthy, and eating like pigs :-)
I've heard these vacation feeders (plaster shell type) are dangerous to
fish and could make your water very hard, but can fish actually survive
without food for say...7 days or so? I'd hate to come back to dead fish.
Thanks.
Quinn C. Horn
: 10G tank, 4 red-eyed tetras and 4 neons, UGF, temp 75, nitrates and
I recently left my salt water tank and its occupants (maroon clown and
3-stripe damsel) for ten days without feeding. Both were perfectly fine
when I got back, except for being a little hungry. I've heard that as long
as long as they are well fed, most fish can go a week easily without food.
10 days is probably pushing is but I had no choice. You are taking a risk
however because if a fish does die, your whole tank can get polluted fast
with no one around to take the fish out of the aquarium.
Good Luck,
Quinn
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Quinn C. Horn
Graduate Student in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Michigan Technological University
Mark Warburton
: without food for say...7 days or so? I'd hate to come back to dead fish.
: Thanks.
On the advice of people in this group, I avoided the vacation feeders
in favor of starvation. I left my 27 gallon freshwater tank for
16 days, completely unattended. When I got back, the water was
clearer than ever and all of my fish (4 black tetras, 4 penguin
tetras, 6 cardinal tetras, 2 koolie loaches, and 1 irridescent
shark) were doing just great. They were happy to be fed again,
but showed absolutely no signs of wear.
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