Going on vacation... Don't want dead fish...

[jariba]

Temperature and light will be your most effective tools. If you turns the lights off and drop the teperature just a bit the day before you leave, you shouldn't have a problem. I've used the food blocks on many occasions with no problems. I think the best one was a vacation block I found at Petsmart. It's the Topfin brand and is a vacation feeder. Just my lowly opinion. Good luck.

 

[Kasakato]

Get an auto-feeder. The blocks might kill your fish becaus thre is plaster in them. I use this one: Auto-feeded. It works great, and has always feed my fish.

 

[anonapersona]

I do the envelope and trusted neighborhood kid thing. I make an evelope of wax paper and add about half a regular days food. Label each for M, T, W, Th.

I pay $1 per task, so getting the mail and newspaper is worth $1 each per day, each tank is another $1/day. Seven tanks plus mail and papers, needless to say, kids are happy to pet sit for me.

When during the Thanksgiving trip, there were tornados here and many power outages, I was happy that the neighbor kid and her parents came over at 1 AM to see that the tanks fiilters were all back on after the power outages. She gets a Christmas bonus for that.

PS, try to find honor students, high school or even junior high, girls are better than boys in general, and pay them well.

 

[victimizati0n]

I would not do this. When I was younger (in High School,9 or so years ago) and had my first aquarium (I am resetting up my aquarium I been out of the hobby for about a 1 and a half) I tried this one summer when we went on a 2 week vacation, and when we got home I found that it did not work, I don't know how long it did not work for, but I lost 4 fish, and I think the other fish only survived by eating the dead ones, so I would not use a flake dispenser, I would go with the slow release ones.

that is why your suppose to test it for a week to see if it works.

ALso, even if it only feeds for like 4 days, your fish will be fine not eating for a few days.

 

[saltydog]

I recently went away for 1 week and they were all fine. In the wild...they dont get to eat at the same time everyday. All I did was make sure they were very well fed the week before leaving.