Vacation foods?

[James[_5_]]

Is there any type of food to get for cichlids for us going on a three day
vacation? Thanks...

James

[Jim Anderson[_2_]]

In article
nications>,
says...
> Is there any type of food to get for cichlids for us going on a three day
> vacation? Thanks...
>
> James

If fairly well grown and healthy, they can starve for a week with little
or no bad effects.

The meat eaters should be starved for a couple of days every month to
clean them out.

[DevilsPGD]

In message > Jim
Anderson > wrote:

>In article
nications>,
says...
>> Is there any type of food to get for cichlids for us going on a three day
>> vacation? Thanks...
>>
>> James
>
>If fairly well grown and healthy, they can starve for a week with little
>or no bad effects.

Indeed. We have teenage kids that are supposed to feed the fish while
we're out of town, but at best they'll do one massive over-feeding a
week or so unless nagged constantly.

Having done several 1-2 week trips, we've only lost one fish and he had
a tumour growing, so I wouldn't qualify him as healthy to begin with, my
bet is that the other fish would have killed him food or not.