<< Previous Within a couple of weeks, I was going to go on a vacation with my family for three days to Goa, leaving our fishes alone at home! And, the question flashed in my mind. Who was going to take care of the fishes? I considered multiple options. I thought of Food | Feed Blocks, Automatic Feeders, letting a friend feed my fishes, handing the fishes over to a neighbor for three days etc. I, personally, had a not-so-good opinion about the Feeder Blocks and Automatic Feeders because of their obvious side effects. Feeder Blocks have a very bad reputation. Those usually negatively affect the water quality. And many a times, fishes do not like those as food. Automatic Feeders can result in overfeeding in some cases. And, that in turn may deteriorate the water quality. The other options could not pass my sustainability-test. I was reluctant to bother someone just for the sake of my hobby! I wanted to find a way that was more natural and sustainable. I thought, it was just a matter of three days and it would not be hard to find a solution.
A couple of days before going on our vacation, I thought, the tiny fishes would not need much food to stay alive for three days. And, I created a plan accordingly. Just before leaving the fishes alone, I changed the water. I kept a couple of shelled and a couple of non-shelled green peas and a few slices of cucumber for the goldfishes in their container. I placed a small piece cut out of a hard-boiled egg-white and a slice of cucumber for the baby-platies in their Fishbowl. This was the idea. Goldfishes would eat the shelled peas (Green Peas without the transparent inner cover) first. Eventually, the cucumber slices would become softer for the goldfishes to munch on. And, after that, the non-shelled peas would be soft enough for the goldfishes to try and eat. I wanted to make usable (suitable) food available in phases for the fishes in an automatic fashion, to avoid overfeeding. The case was not much different for the platy-babies. They, I thought, would take small bites off the cucumber slice and the small piece of boiled egg-white. When I introduced the cucumber slice and the boiled egg-white to the baby-platies, they got into action and started nibbling. I found this arrangement quite satisfactory. And, we started for our vacation with a belief that when we got back home, we would find all our fishes healthy and happy. This was what happened NEXT! NEXT >> << Previous
A couple of days before going on our vacation, I thought, the tiny fishes would not need much food to stay alive for three days. And, I created a plan accordingly. Just before leaving the fishes alone, I changed the water. I kept a couple of shelled and a couple of non-shelled green peas and a few slices of cucumber for the goldfishes in their container. I placed a small piece cut out of a hard-boiled egg-white and a slice of cucumber for the baby-platies in their Fishbowl. This was the idea. Goldfishes would eat the shelled peas (Green Peas without the transparent inner cover) first. Eventually, the cucumber slices would become softer for the goldfishes to munch on. And, after that, the non-shelled peas would be soft enough for the goldfishes to try and eat. I wanted to make usable (suitable) food available in phases for the fishes in an automatic fashion, to avoid overfeeding. The case was not much different for the platy-babies. They, I thought, would take small bites off the cucumber slice and the small piece of boiled egg-white. When I introduced the cucumber slice and the boiled egg-white to the baby-platies, they got into action and started nibbling. I found this arrangement quite satisfactory. And, we started for our vacation with a belief that when we got back home, we would find all our fishes healthy and happy. This was what happened NEXT! NEXT >> << Previous
PART 13: HOME ALONE! by Debi Prasad Mahapatra is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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