mchambers
Former CCA member
We came back late Monday night from our 12 day trip to Belize. Before we left, I decided not to feed my fish while we were gone, even though I have quite a few automatic feeders that I could have used for most of my tanks. I did throw in some extra Repashy before we left, but I'm willing to bet it was gone within 24 hours.
I also worried about power failures from thunderstorms, but it appears that we didn't lose power, since none of our appliances were on that cursed blink time when we got home.
Last night, I did water changes on all but two of my seven tanks. It looks like I didn't lose any fish due to starvation or the lack of water changes, although in some tanks it's hard to be certain, simply because it's too hard to count the fish. Still, I don't see any remains of dead fish, and it looks like all of the bigger fish survived just fine. Everyone looks healthy.
It's making me rethink how often I feed my fish. I may feed my fish less frequently, perhaps 4 days a week or something like that, unless I am condititioning them for breeding.
I also worried about power failures from thunderstorms, but it appears that we didn't lose power, since none of our appliances were on that cursed blink time when we got home.
Last night, I did water changes on all but two of my seven tanks. It looks like I didn't lose any fish due to starvation or the lack of water changes, although in some tanks it's hard to be certain, simply because it's too hard to count the fish. Still, I don't see any remains of dead fish, and it looks like all of the bigger fish survived just fine. Everyone looks healthy.
It's making me rethink how often I feed my fish. I may feed my fish less frequently, perhaps 4 days a week or something like that, unless I am condititioning them for breeding.
