Yikes! Thx. I assumed that was what the general consensus would be… We went on vacation a long time ago, when we had 3 balas and a couple other fish…the tank was young…we had someone coming by to feed them yet somehow, when we returned, one of the Balas was a skeleton floating around, and the others weren’t talking! Needless to say, I never asked this person to feed my fish while I was away again.I would say the odds are pretty high. Fish are not at all sentimental about where they get their protein.