I need my pet fish to be fed while I'm on vacation for a couple weeks. How can I do that without asking other people to help? I don't want to leave my fish with anyone else, and I don't want to let anyone in my house while I'm gone. It really seems like there should be some way to do this easily.
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1What kind of fish? Many fish types you can drop in a feeder block, which contains a bit of food, but mainly anti-acid. The fish can quite easily go a week or so without food. – Tetsujin Sep 08 '16 at 19:18
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Thanks, @Tetsujin. It's a betta fish. I'll look into the feeder block. – Sep 08 '16 at 19:27
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@jyoung My betta fish was fine with a feeder block for a week. (It also went without eating anything for a month one time, but that's another story.) – BrettFromLA Sep 08 '16 at 20:33
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You can buy feeding blocks that slowly dissolve in water and reaese the food over a given period of time. They are cheap and sold with names as vacation food block, weekend food block or something similar.
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If you search Amazon (or Google) "Fish Feeder Timer" there are a large number of products which will dispense food periodically - a lot of these are under $30.
Some examples -
- Here is a 14 day feeder for $25
- Here is a feeder which will work for 14-20 feeds depending on what you feed.
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Feeder block, pence/cents, also keeps the water clean. Automatic feeder, 25 bucks, usually dispenses too much so leaves rotting food, & no-one to clean the tank for 2 weeks. Not the best idea. When I discovered that difference, 20 years ago, my tank survival rate went from negative to positive; I actually was breeding fish [totally of their own accord, not of my design] & gaining numbers in the same tank as I'd been losing fish for years & restocking from the shop every year. – Tetsujin Sep 09 '16 at 18:44