Week end blocks

[leongreenway]

A work collegue has said that a weekend block is a waste of money, as if i fed the fish food last thing on a Friday, they would be fine till Monday.

Is this true

110 Litre tank at work

It contains
2 New Guinea Rainbows
1 Angel (needs to be moved as i hear when it is big enough it will eat the tetras)

6 Neon Tetras
3 guppies
4 Corrie
4 small golden chinese algae eaters (need to removed soon i hear)

1 Red Dwarf Gourami

 

[OohFeeshy]

Yea, they;ll be fine. They are cold blooded, they can go without food for a long time. I mean, no one feeds them during shipping, do they?

 

[pica_nuttalli]

ok... so my brother told me this (horror) story about the terrarium he had for some newts.

well, he decided to get some half-grown feeder guppies and see if the newts would eat them. he put the guppies in and just left them. he didn't know what to feed them, but saw them picking at the algae on the rocks and somehow determined that this was their natural food source (yeah, i know. but then again, my mom thought they should just live off bread crumbs when i got mine.)

anyways, he's had the guppies in there for a week and suddenly the first one disappears! he thinks score! the newts have figured it out! Slowly but surely, over the course of the next two weeks, all the feeders get "eaten". smart boy that he is, he decides to clean the rocks before getting another batch. and slowly but surely, he finds each half-rotted carcass under the river-rocks.

first moral of the story: don't be a dumb###.
second moral of the story: your fish can go without food for at least a week.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi leongreenway

Your fish will be fine if you miss feeding them for a few days.

The thing that worries me about those feeding blocks is having that chalky substance the food is embedded in dissolving in the water.