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Tips on traveling for a long time with a fish?
ByI recently got a betta fish for my dorm room. I’m going home for a week at the end of November, and I can’t leave him in my dorm because he won’t get fed. I live nine hours away from my university. Does anyone have any tips on safely traveling five hundred miles by car with a fish? I’m rather attached to him.
I also am a little strapped for cash right now. And practically in the middle of nowhere. You guys have good ideas, they just probably won’t work for me.
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October 22nd, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Honestly? Its better off at your dorm room. A week? A betta fish can go a week without food. Dont be like “Oh ill dump in 5x more food than usual and he will be ok for the week.”
-no, that will more likely kill him.
Feed him normally. And when you leave, just leave him there, and come back in a week. He should be fine. OR if your really concerned, buy a 7 day betta fish feeder block. It could cloud your tank, and taint your water quality though.
Good Luck.
October 22nd, 2010 at 10:55 pm
You can buy an automatic feeder at the store. Some are a little pricey, but they do work. Maybe you can put it in a half gallon tank and bring it with you?
October 22nd, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Try not to do a feeder block. That won’t go well..
There’s something called TetraVacation that’s in a gel form. You drop about half of it into your tank for one betta, and he’ll eat off it just fine. It won’t clout your water either.
Make sure you have a sponge filter in there to keep the water clean.
October 22nd, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Ryan: NO.
He has to get fed. I see your concern. There are fish feeders and feeder blocks, but the blocks can cloud your water. That is probably your best bet, unless you can find someoen you trust to feed your fish for you while your gone.
EDIT: If you really need to take him with you, and you probably will sooner or later when the year ends you go back home for the summer, I would fill a plastic bacg 1/4 of the way with water from his tank, then put him in, then put him in a styrofoam box filled with styrofoam peanuts and make sure it is nice and tight in the car and won’t slip around too much. Maybe you can stop a few times along the way to make sure he has enough oxygen, or maybe but an air stone in there and just try to get there quickly.