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How do you feed your fish while on your holidays?


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I am about to leave my tank and my fish for about ten day's.I have stocked up on pond weed and duck weed for them.Will this keep them happy for ten days? I have five medium goldfish.Is there anything eles i might put in their tank to feed them without it going bad on them?Getting somone in to feed them is not a option. :D

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Your LFS will sell feeding blocks , that you put in the tank and the fish can nibble at them , and most have a pocket of food in the centre aswell.

Or a better option would be to buy an automatic feeder. The best in my experience would be an EHEIM AUTOFEEDER . these were on special at Hollywood Fish Farm ,Mt Roskill last time i was there.

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I am going away for a week and am getting a friend to come and feed them. He is rather fishy ;)

I am trying to put a bit of weight on some of my fish, and my new torrentfish have ich so he is going to do waterchanges and keep medicating them.

If I was getting a non-fishy person to feed my fish I would get small zip-lock bags and make set portions and write down very strict instructions, as well as show them how to do it (reduces worry for both parties)

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gone in ten seconds!!

Though i guess following the same 'pre-packaged' idea (to avoid overfeeding issues if getting someone else to help) you could put your live food in meal-sized pots and put them in the fridge, which slows down their metabolism so they live longer in a small pot.

But the others are right, they will be fine for a week or so without food if you can't/don't want to get someone to feed them.

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My goldies get very cranky and start acting aggressive when they miss their meals :roll:

So my first choice is preparing each day's food in little zip-lock bags for someone to feed for you. The $2 shop have good ones. Make sure you don't leave the fish food container lying around or it will be very tempting for your friend to overfeed them!

Otherwise I have heard the automatic feeders are good, though I've never used one.

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