Vacation!

[Shadownova]

I am going on vacation for eleven days and I am worried about my nitrates

 

[christine2012]

Don't feed them while you're gone. Feed them and do a Big pwc before you go. Bet you don't have a single issue. Gl!

 

[bud29]

Can they go without food for 11 days??? They probably can, just wondering........

 

[christine2012]

Unless there's fry, they should be fine. A holding cichlid goes 3 weeks without eating, and without dying.

 

[bud29]

Wow. That's good to know.

 

[Shadownova]

No I don't think they can go 11 days without food alive! What about nitrates I will have the homesitter feed them.

 

[jlbfish]

I just came back from a 16 day (maybe 17 vacation) I did a big water change and told the pet/house sitter to feed them every other day Given the size of some of the fish I am not sure she did but they could have fed on something else.

I have a betta in a 5 gallon, 4 cories and 9 neon tetras in a 28 gallon and 5 danios, 10 black neons and 5 red eye tetras in a 75 gallon.

I also had her add some prime at the end of 2 weeks. When I came back I had a diatom bloom and the 75 gallon was a mess BUT so far I only lost one neon tetra in the 28 everyone else did well.

Good Luck! I did get some pill containers for her to feed them but decided against it. I should have probably used them if it had been more feasable.