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11-29-2006, 09:04 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA
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 |  How long can a fish go without eating?
Hi everyone, I am planning on leaving my house for a couple days and no one can come by to feed my fish. I'm not too concerned with most of them, it's just the blackback butterfly that I'm worried about. All the other fish are eating flakes, and I have that on a timer. The blackback won't eat anything other than mysis shrimp and all I have are frozen mysis shrimp.
I will be gone Friday - Monday (4 days). Is my blackback going to starve? Will he learn to eat the flakes out of starvation? Is there some other alternative to frozen mysis shrimp?
Any advice would be great. THANKS!
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Started 03/2006
46 Gallon, Aqua C Remora w/ Maxi-Jet 1200, 2 Hydor Koralia #1, Penguin Bio-Wheel 200 Filter (w/ no Bio-Wheel), 65 lbs live rock, 60 lbs live sand, Coralife 36" Lunar Aqualight 2x96w with LEDs.
LIVESTOCK
Fish: 2 false perculas, 1 Coral Beauty, 1 diamond goby
Inverts: 10 hermit crabs, 2 nassarius snails, 7 turbo snails, 1 electric blue crab, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp.
Corals: Colt Coral
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11-29-2006, 10:09 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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IMO 4 days is ok. Just make sure he eats before you leave and feed him when you come back. I've been longer than that between feedings
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20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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11-29-2006, 10:12 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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There's plenty of amphipods and copepods in your tank that the fish can snack on while you're gone. The fish will be fine IMO. | |
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11-29-2006, 10:18 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Miami,Florida Age: 21
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I think they will be okay, ive gone longer no feeding my fish while ive been out! _________ *Since 12/2002 40 gal. 85 lbs live rock. 3" fiji Live sand.wet dry filter and prizm protein skimmer. 192 power compacts
*Since 10/2006 125 gal. Built in Overflows x2, 3" LS(165 lb fiji pink) 175 lb of LR, 2x 36" aquatinics T5 HO fixtures(10x39W bulbs 2 gliesman aquablue+1 gliesman actinic+2 ATI aquablue special), mag 18 return pump, PM R30fuge. AquaC EV 180 skimmer.
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11-29-2006, 10:18 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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I'm in agreeance with above. Your fish should do fine. Many pods etc. in your tank to graze on. Have you tried using algae/seaweed to feed your Butterfly fish?
Fish can go for a week or more many times with no ill effect!
As for the corals, i wouldn't have polyps in with your Butterfly as the polyps will be food for it as you are finding out!!! Unless you don't care if the Butterfly feasts on the Buttons-it could eat them while you are gone as well. _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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11-29-2006, 06:58 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Thanks, you guys make me feel a little better about leaving the poor guys. Ya, there's nothing I can do with the polyps.. they're in there and I can't return them to the store. At least they'll serve as "reserves" food for the butterfly.
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