Skip Feedings

I just got back from 9 days at the in-laws for the holidays.
Both the community in the 10 gallon and the betta in a 5 gallon survived with no deaths. I admit I was a little nervous about leaving them for over a week, but now that I'm back and everything seems okay I feel the tanks would be fine for 2 entire weeks without feeding...
 
When I went on vacation, I was paranoid that my fish would die without food for a few days, so i got one of those vacation feeders, when I got home though, it was gone and everyone was fine.
 
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You're underestimating the ability of fishes to regulate their metabolisms.

As long as the temp is stable and not extremely high, most fish can go for well over 1-2 months without feeding and be fine. If the water is a bit colder, they can go for 3-4 months with no ill effects. Depending on the species, up to 1 year (in a lab, regulated temp at about 55, lake trout). Following the testing, the trout was returned to the raceway, where it resumed eating normally, and grew just fine. Not recommended for an aquarium, simply because we can't regulate the conditions as closely. Oxygen levels, temp, and light, etc.

I feed all but the fry every other day. The fry are fed twice daily.
 
I skip a day a week, but when I went on vacation for a week, I got an Eheim automatic feeder. I don't think any fish would die from a week with no food, but I worried that my large, normally contented Pictus catfish would be tempted to snack on its smaller tankmates after several days with no food.

BTW, I did lose one fish during the vacation anyway.
 
If you leave for a vacation and if your fish get hungry...they will find food.

One big fish to another big fish.....
"Hey...that little Barb looks tastey, doesn't it?"
 
i skip feed

Half of the the fish in my tank were originally kept at work so they always went Sat and Sun without food, and then over long work vacations like Thanksgiving they'd go four or more days without. I've never had a problem doing this, so now that my fish are at home I've just continued to not feed them on the weekend. I'm kind of bad about overfeeding so I figure it works out in the end.
 
i feed my fish once a day, usually never at the same time, and i skip one day a week totally at random. Fry get fed twice a day for a few months.
 
I often skip a day here ot there with most of my tanks.

I have went on 3 day campouts and come back to thriving happy fish. Although usually my severum start getting frantic when they see me after that long wnating food.
 
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