In article , Elaine T
wrote:

Justin Boucher wrote:
Whenever I plan a vacation (or holiday as you like to put it) I usually only
ask someone to feed my tanks if I'm out for more than 4 days. Skipping a
few days is not dangerous to a lot of fish and may even be benefitial. If I
do ask for assistance, I generally ask them to feed on a schedule roughly
half of what I normally provide. I managed to acquire a tiny plastic scoop
that I use during feedings so if I usually feed a full scoop once a day, I
often will ask my voluteer to only provide just over half a scoop once every
other day.

This way, I have no fears of potential overfeedings and I know that the fish
would not directly starve should my vacation last a day or two longer.

Justin

I just did the same thing. I had my fishsitter come over every other
day, and feed what I usually give twice a day. I think she still
overfed because there's more algae than before and the plants grew like
crazy. Anyway, the fish and tanks are all fine.

I have one of those automatic feeder thingies. Seems to work fine!