I will be leaving my betta home for Christmas and will be gone for about 7 days. I bought these feeding blocks but not sure if they will be any help. Should I use the blocks or will he be fine for 7 days with no food? Any advice appreciated!
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Posted by Carushow_2021
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No (quick answer) I’m sure others will give a better explanation
These can mess up the tank
I have a heavily planted tank with snails, shrimp etc and I could probably go a month without feeding since he can nibble on all the microfawna (copepods, daphnia etc)
I would give them a good few feedings and let them be they’ll be fine for a week depending on your tank
No dont use them. It will just cause an ammonia spike and odds are he wont reconize it as food. He will be completely fine for a week without food 🙂
I would just skip feeding for the week, ideally it would be great if someone could come feed him once or twice, but these feeding blocks are honestly trash unfortunately. The white chalky part becomes a horrid mess in the water, and sometimes the fish don’t even recognize the food inside as food, leading to the food rotting and ammonia spiking. The white chalky part also messed up the water and makes things quite toxic, which is farrrrr more dangerous for your fish than skipping some food. Give him a good feeding before you go, do a quick water change, and he should be alright, just feed him asap (not too much at once) once you are back.
He will be fine for a week. Don’t use the blocks, they are more of a risk than they’re worth.
Just do no food, these things kill peoples fish, better to feed a lot before you leave for like a week, then fast, betta should be fine, or have a family member feed fish once, preferably you measure out the food beforehand, i put it in little daily pill holders, so that way family member can’t overfeed, hide the food just incase.
Just get an auto feeder. $25 on amazon. It’s really not that hard.
mine had no idea it was food because he only ever had pellets at that point, either get a friend to feed them or feed them a little extra for a few days before hand
Just feed him good before you leave he will be fine for the week. The feeding blocks will only cause you tank issues and possibly a sick or dead betta when you get back. See if someone can go check on him or feed him once during that time. But he will be fine if you cant.
i went thru this same exact thing. i was rly afraid to leave him for the week but he was totally fine. it’s def safer to just leave him for a week!
i’m preparing myself for having a betta, and as i researched they’re quite sensitive, aren’t they? genuine question, how’s everyone saying it’ll be fine without food for one entire week??
Do Not recommend using these, I used these once when I was going home for the holidays and my fish ended up dying a week or so after due to the ammonia spike. They rarely recognize it as food so it just rots into your substrate and is a bitch to clean out.