weekend feeders for a week

[liquidforce5010]

I have a birchir, an oscar, and 5 cichlids and i have to go out of town for a week and i was wondering if the weekend feeders or gel plates would work to feed them if i am going to be gone for a whole week? The birchir usually only eats blood worms and i feed everything else the cichilid floating pellets.

[myjohnson]

What is a weekend feeder?

That aside, an eheim auto feeder will keep your tank fed for over a week.

[eklikewhoa]

Eheim feeder... only thing I would trust, would rather feed real good before going, do water change and leave them than trust anything else.

[liquidforce5010]

ok... the weekend feeders are little white things that say weekend feeder on them and are supposedly supposed to slowly dissolve over a few days time

[eklikewhoa]

I don't trust those either and honestly for your fish they are probably gonna cause more problems than solve.

[armthehomeless]

Weekend feeders are usually designed for smaller fish. How big are your fish currently?

[myjohnson]

Another thing to do (if try are of size) is buy feeder fishes. That will last them a while for sure.

[Mzungu]

I'd do like ek says and feed well before you leave, do a good water change, and let them be for the week. They'll be perfectly fine. Just be sure to feed them when you get home! :)

Edit: Unless of course the oscar is 12" long and your other cichlids are babies...then you might come home to just an Oscar and Bichir in the tank.

[Complexity]

I'd do like ek says and feed well before you leave, do a good water change, and let them be for the week. They'll be perfectly fine. Just be sure to feed them when you get home! :)

Edit: Unless of course the oscar is 12" long and your other cichlids are babies...then you might come home to just an Oscar and Bichir in the tank.

+1 on everything said!

I have seen more people post problems caused by feeders or "helper" friends when people go out of town than by just leaving the fish alone. If you use an automatic feeder, make sure it's set up and used before you leave so you know it's working as expected. The last thing you want is for it to dump too much food into the tank while you're gone and unable to clean it out.

Healthy fish can easily go a week without food. Consider how long a holding female goes without eating.

[liquidforce5010]

ok i will probably just do water change and leave them be... the oscar is like 5in and the birchir is like 5-7in...neither are big enough to eat the other cichlids