Holiday Feeding

[JxsPxxle]

I was wondering how i could keep my betta happy and healthy while i’m on a four day holiday. I currently feed him twice a day, tropical flakes on a morning and blood worms on a night. What do you people do about feeding when on holiday? I am planning on making a reverse snail trap for my puffer fish so they are fed over a several day period with snails, but I do not know what to do about my betta.

 

[seangee]

Enjoy the holiday. Your betta will be fine withot being fed for 4 days.

 

[AquaBarb]

Your Betta will be fine without food for 4 days. Just do a water change before you go and he/she will be perfectly fine.

 

[Colin_T]

same deal with your puffers. give them a feed before you go and leave it at that.

 

[Byron]

Agree. Healthy mature fish (not fry) can go for days without food (they will also usually find some natural food in the aquarium if it is established). I would also suggest you limit the twice daily feedings when you get back, once a day is more than enough (fish will always appear to be hungry) even missing one or two days each week. And bloodworms should never be fed more than once a week.

 

[JxsPxxle]

Thanks for the replies. I thought they would be fine but it is always worth the ask. I will change the blood worms to once a week and feed less as I may be over feeding them a bit.