King British Holiday Fish Food Block, may vary

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Vacation feeder blocks last up to 14 days – long enough for you to enjoy a long road trip or relaxing vacation. It’s for this reason that Tetra’s Holiday food uses a jelly-like media to carry the small morsels of food, which doesn’t negatively impact on water chemistry. These pyramid-shaped feeder blocks contain nutritious, slow-release pellets which act as uniformly balanced meals for your fish during your absence. In a pack of four, these handy feeding blocks are a great stand by for the times when you are away from home.

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ThisKing British food is made of a calcium matrix that is suitable for all coldwater and tropical fish.

While overfeeding won't make your fish explode, it will contaminate the water, making the tank an unpleasant place to live. Another option is to get a friend or neighbour to feed your fish while you are away – this can be useful as long as they have a bit of training beforehand and you are contactable if there is a problem. Although some pets can come along with us when we go on holiday, or visit the kennels or cattery, an aquarium or pond is not so mobile and so we need to find a good way of looking after our fish while away.I was REALLY nervous about what we would come home to but 11 days later, both tanks were clean and all the fish seemed quite happy! It can take a while to convince the fish that this large strange item is not only unthreatening, but is also food. In addition, an excessive amount of food particles in the tank can clog the filters, which also causes the water to become toxic. I agree with your thoughts on Russian roulette – but in your situation it sounds like you did the only thing you could. Automatic feeders are another option; set to dispense a precise amount of food at set times during the day.

However, this type of food isn't strictly necessary because, as mentioned above, most fish can happily fast for a few days at a time.Fish are only able to eat small amounts of food at a time and any extra food will simply float to the bottom of the aquarium. All fish owners will have asked themselves the same question at some point: how will my fish and tank cope while I'm on holiday? API claims that the feeder block meets the nutritional requirements of all aquarium fish – goldfish, freshwater, tropical and saltwater. API Holiday Pyramid Fish Feeder should be used as a temporary substitute for daily feeding for your fish while you are away on vacation. The final option is to use a holiday feeding block, which releases small pieces of a low protein food into the water to keep the fish going in your absence, and it is these holiday feeds that I want to focus on here.

Weekend feeder blocks last up to 3 days – just long enough to keep your fish fed for a short trip away from home. I have a Blackmoor in a 21 (us gallon) tank, I use a Fluval 3 for filtration, a dual out put air pump with a heater set at 21 degrees Celsius. We went away to Yorkshire for a week, so we opted to get this to feed our 4 Platy and 6 Danio temperate fish while we were away. Many come in an inner packet to keep the food fresh and this needs removing before using or you may harm your fish – you’d be surprised at how many people miss this when opening the food and end up placing the block in the aquarium still in its film.Because there are so many different types of slow release fish foods available and aquarium setups, it is nearly impossible to know how a vacation feeder block will react in your tank.