Re: Vacation Feeding

[Wright Huntley <jwwiii at pacbell_net>]

Bob Woth wrote:
> How long will you be gone ? If just a week don't feed them.

My cutoff, for grown fish is more like 3 weeks. Oleg Kiselev once went off 
to Russia for about 3 weeks, and I think he may have been surprised that 
losses were less than the average when he was home!

Baby fish can actually do well if you have green water and or put a small 
piece of lettuce on the water surface to produce infusoria. Another trick 
is to float a mosquito-egg raft on their water (if they are big enough to 
eat the larvae, of course).

> 
> Phil McGehee wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi List,
>>    I have a question about feeding my fish while I'm away. I feed exclusively live food to my fish. Some that I have were wild imports and I'm not sure that they will take flake food. My oldest son and daughter-in-law would feed my fish but, it is too much to ask for them to spend over an hour feeding fish. What do you do? I'm also curious about "golden pearls". Is this food an acceptable substitute for live food? How easy to foul the water with this food? I am open to any and all suggestions.
>>    Thanks, in advance Phil

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