What do you do with yout betta when you go on vacation?

[Oscar Betta]

I am wondering what do you do with your betta if you go on vacation. Do you hire someone to take care of him? Is there a special type of food? Do you take him with you?

[FishMomma]

Depends how long youare going to be gone, Dear. If you are going to be gone longer than a week or two, you may be forced into finding someone to take care of your Betta babies! I just came back from vacation and was fortunate enough to have aneighbor who also keeps fish watch over mine. I did leave very specific instructions, however, when it came to feeding and also showed them how I did things. Thankfully we weren't gone long enough that any water changes had to be done. If you have a friend that you can walk through how to do everything like water changes, feedings, etc., you could do that. However, let me stress that the friend you leave them with should actually see you do a water change and feeding. Don't use the tank mate feeding things. Bettas will over eat (it's their nature), so dropping one of those things in the tank only causes problems like constipation and swim bladder condition. Another option is a fish sitting service. Those are offered in some places but I'm never comfortable having a stranger come into my home or take care of my fish.

If you are only going to be gone for 2 or 3 days, just give your Bettas a feeding right before you leave. They are able to go several weeks without food so they should be fine. I have done this if I'm only going to be gone a Friday and Saturday.

[Jenny07]

I had someone come and feed him.

[conaair]

at Walmart u can buy food called TetraVacation its a little can and you just put it in the fish tank and your fish will nibble off of it whenever their hungry. it will last about 14 days.

[Oscar Betta]

Ok, but wouldnt he just over eat?

[BettaLu&Meg]

Betta fish can actually live without food for i believe up to a month. if its a weekend thing just give them a little extra before u go. This is what i did because i just don't trust anyone with my Little guys and there fry too!

[Emenon]

I believe there are some machines called automatic feeders. They cost around USD 10-20 and will automatically drop in pellets, flakes, freeze-dried bloodworms, freeze-dried krill, etc, on a fixed schedule. You can set the timer to feed 1-3 times per day. I'm not sure how many days they can feed up to though as I haven't bought one before. But I believe to can control the amount of food it feeds too (the more expensive feeders), so you can feed exactly 8 pellets, 4 bloodworms, etc, per serving by putting them in the provided feeder compartments.

[Oscar Betta]

cool! are they hard to find though?

[FishMomma]

Sounds like a fansastic idea especially if you're gone a lot! If you get one, let us know how it works and if your fish do okay with it!!

[Oscar Betta]

ok i will