Ok here's the setup: My friend's gf gave me a fish to look after for reading break. Her instructions were clear: feed the fish two crushed pellets of food a day. No problem I thought.
Well today I woke up and dropped two pellets in the tank was about to walk out of my room when I realized I'd forgotten to crush them up. I came back to pluck them out of the water to find that they had already sunk to the bottom of the tank. So now I have two whole food pellets (a day's worth of food) decomposing at the bottom of the tank.
I've been reading on the Internet for the last hour about how overfeeding is the most often cause of killing fish and I'm freaking out. I'd reach in their and pull the food out but A) I'm afraid of hurting the fish, and B) it's one of those small tube tanks so I couldn't reach it even if i wanted too.
I'm also considering doing a partial water change but I'm afraid that I'll just screw up and go from the frying pan into the fire.
So I'm kind of in a bind...is there a fish owner that can tell me what I should do? If I just don't feed him today (he didn't eat anything because the pellets were too big) will he survive the decomposing food's changes to his tank or is it possible that this one overfeeding will be his death knell?
Please help!
Well today I woke up and dropped two pellets in the tank was about to walk out of my room when I realized I'd forgotten to crush them up. I came back to pluck them out of the water to find that they had already sunk to the bottom of the tank. So now I have two whole food pellets (a day's worth of food) decomposing at the bottom of the tank.
I've been reading on the Internet for the last hour about how overfeeding is the most often cause of killing fish and I'm freaking out. I'd reach in their and pull the food out but A) I'm afraid of hurting the fish, and B) it's one of those small tube tanks so I couldn't reach it even if i wanted too.
I'm also considering doing a partial water change but I'm afraid that I'll just screw up and go from the frying pan into the fire.
So I'm kind of in a bind...is there a fish owner that can tell me what I should do? If I just don't feed him today (he didn't eat anything because the pellets were too big) will he survive the decomposing food's changes to his tank or is it possible that this one overfeeding will be his death knell?
Please help!
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