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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / September 2007"holiday food"
The packs that I've seen on sale come in different sizes & look like small, white bricks .... although some are circular / coin shaped. It seems that the sizes depend upon how long you are away from the tank, unable to feed the fish. When you live far from family & friends .... & cannot rely on anyone to take care of your fish, while away, then it is a serious consideration. Just wondered if anyone here had gambled upon using the stuff before .... & if it proved any good ? ( i.e: no dead, emaciated looking fish ... upon return ) Z W > The packs that I've seen on sale come in different sizes & look like small, > white bricks .... although some [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Z W Never use those holiday food blocks. They're made of plaster with bits of cheapo foods in it. It really screws up the water chemistry, pH gets messed up, and they can pollute the tank quickly. Better to use a fish sitter or an automatic feeder (dry foods). These are pretty cheap now a days, not like they used to be. Most of the holiday foods that I've ever seen are full of rubbish and I wouldn't give them to my fish.Also, even if you could find one that had decent ingredients, it would still be hanging around in the water for a week or two which wouldn't do your water chemistry any good at all. You'd be likely to come back to poorly fish because your water parameters were all over the place! Personally I leave mine with nothing, even for two weeks. I have plants in the tank so they can nibble on them if they want to and they do fine. They certainly wont starve to death in two weeks so you wont come home to a pile of scales and bone, and your water parameters will be as good as the day you left! Mel. >> The packs that I've seen on sale come in different sizes & look like >> small, [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Better to use a fish sitter or an automatic feeder (dry foods). These > are pretty cheap now a days, not like they used to be. > Just wondered if anyone here had gambled upon using the stuff before .... > & if it proved any good ? ( i.e: > no dead, emaciated looking fish ... upon return ) ========================= For long weekends we just feed well right before leaving and they do fine. If we're going to be gone longer than a few days I have someone come over and feed them a few times. The food is measured out for each feeding and written in instructions left. If I had no one to do this I would buy an auto-feeder.  SignatureRM.... Zone 6. Middle TN USA ~~~~ }<((((*> ~~~ }<{{{{(ö> >> Just wondered if anyone here had gambled upon using the stuff before .... >> & if it proved any good ? ( i.e: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > written in instructions left. If I had no one to do this I would buy an > auto-feeder. I agree with leaving them. If you must, Tetra makes Holiday Sticks that are not in those white bricks and have decent nutrients. |
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