to feed or not to feed

[sureone]

<span style="font-size: 12px;">I can’t put fish in my tank for 2 to 4 weeks (due to a parasite problem) but I am wondering if I should continue a small feeding for my snails and inverts.???
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[photokid]

for the inverts i would put a very small amount of food and i would not feed everyday.

 

[ralph atl]

photokid;135158 wrote: for the inverts i would put a very small amount of food and i would not feed everyday.

yup!

you can also put a sheet of nori in there for your snals to crunch of you have np algae yet (but you should have some)

 

[down and outman]

I lost my first set of inverts due to no food available. They ate each other. Rubberband some nori around a small rock to give them something to munch on. I still do that for my Tang and critters.

 

[sureone]

Sorry! Nori?????

 

[ralph atl]

nori is sushi seaweed. get it at lfs, or cheaper at asian food market or publix (that sells real sushi)

 

[reeferjw]

I have not fed nori before. How long do you leave it in the tank if it is not all consumed?

 

[cameron]

You can leave it in for several days. If it starts to break apart on its own, time to go.

 

[atlfishes]

If your leaving your tank dormate due to Ich, 2-4 weeks is not likely long enough. To be on the safe side 2-3 months is better. There is some research saying Ich survived up to 3 months in a fishless tank. Increasing the temp in your tank will help in decreasing the lifecycle.

 

[cameron]

There is some research suggesting a tank can run near indefinitely and still have ick return. Someone was talking about a way to "trick" ick into exposing itself in a tank without fish earlier but I can't remember the post. You can probably find it with some searching.

 

[humptrax]

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