What to Do with Your Fish when Going on a Holiday

At times, when you are planning to go away on a long holiday, you might be wondering what you are going to do to ensure that your aquarium fish stays healthy. Although fish can generally survive up to 3 days without food, there’s always other concerns related to maintaining clean water condition, sudden death caused by disease proliferation and unexpected power outage.

If your holiday will probably stretch for only just a week, then there’s not much of a concern. If your aquarium is equipped with automatic fish feeder then there’s nothing to worry about because the feeder will take care on the feeding. Next comes to water condition, usually the best approach is to do a final water change a day before you leave for your trip. However, be careful not to change too much water or else you will risk yourself unable to attend to the situation if anything goes wrong. Make sure that the filter is properly cleaned without destroying the beneficial bacteria colony and if you have live plants in the tank, make sure that all dead leaves were picked up to avoid sudden ammonia buildup in the tank.

The tricky part only comes when you are probably leaving your home aquarium for a month. If you have a neighbor or close relatives who understand about aquarium fish keeping, then this might be a good idea to ask for their help. If you have nobody to turn to, then probably the best approach is to get the service of an aquarium fish caretaker also known at pet sitter.

Finding a pet store that offers such services should not be difficult because nowadays there are quite a lot of reputable providers. Usually you don’t have to leave the keys to them and what is required is actually getting the help of your neighbor to open the door to the service person and accompany them to do their job. Once everything is done, you can request your neighbor to confirm things are okay before they leave. Don’t worry about your pet fish getting harmed because most of these service personnel are professionals knowledgeable in aquarium fish care.

Finally, what is left for you to do before you make up your mind to engage their service is to check carefully the pricing, reputation and best is, if you have friends who can share good experiences about them, then that would be even better. Interested to find out more about aquarium fish?

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