Leaving Betta Fish For A Week

Thinking of putting the light on a timer but other than that.

Leaving betta fish for a week. Overfeeding is never good for a fish and it will also dirty his water which you don t want to have him have to deal with for the week. Leaving your betta for a weekend may not be bad after all. Then feed your fish 5 or 6 days a week leaving a day or two for fasting.

So i d say yeah use one. Leave them in a pet store. This is however not recommended because after about 5 6 days a betta fish starts to tap into its reserves and can enter starvation mode.

For more tips from our veterinary reviewer on feeding a betta fish including how to pick out the right food keep reading. That s around 5 days. However this does not mean forever.

Leaving betta alone for a week or so help. Your fish probably could survive the week without food but i wouldn t want to chance it and it probably wouldn t be good for him anyway. I had 2 fish so i don t think it fed them as much as they wanted.

Before you do leave i would strongly suggest that you try to obtain a bigger tank with a filter and since siamese fighting fish betta splendens are a tropical fish a heater. Just check that the recommended ranges are. Test your waters over the next few weeks and once the tank has completed a full cycle it s time to add your betta.

Give it an amount of food that s about the same size as its eyeball each time you feed it. Starvation increases stress levels and can lead to organ failure and disease contraction. I was gone for about a week too once and it wasn t fully dissolved.