Tetra Vacation Gel Feeder Block 14 days, 1.06 Ounces

The first (AND LAST!) time I tried this was on a 9 day vacation. Since I hadn't used this particular type before I had a family member who lives next door keep tabs on the fish every day that I was gone and feed them as needed. Good thing because my fish did not like this stuff at all.

I researched reviews further and found that a lot of people had the same results.

Note: I read the instructions carefully and did in fact remove the food block (more like a puck) from the tin-like tray.

On my previous vacation, if I recall correctly, I used the feeder pyramids from API. Those worked great.

TIP:

Before using any type of vacation feeders, test them out prior to needing them to ensure your fish will be okay. Or have a trusted friend or relative check on your fish to make sure they're doing okay.

I tried two of these gel feeders in two different tanks when I was gone for a week. When I returned both feeders were untouched. The fish survived but I won't try these again. I'm going back to conventional feeder blocks.

Other Tetra products have worked well for me.

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"Yeah, I should have known better

To take a chance on ever losing you"

(Jim Diamond)

This sticky, nasty ugly food

I dropped into my tank

I came back 10 days later and

My house was smelling rank

The block was sitting there untouched

The fish were glassy eyed

They'd rather die than have to eat

The food I'd placed inside

The moral of this story is

Beware this feeding block

Use only if you plan to thin

Your current fishy stock.

In all seriousness, don't use this product. My tropical fish starved themselves to death rather than eat a bite of this nasty-textured gel feeder. I've used the white ones that look like shells and starfish with no problems, so I'm extremely disappointed in this one, and the fish even more so.

Amanda Richards, August 21, 2010

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This product was a little hard to get out of the container. One of the blocks sort of broke apart. Other than that, it worked well. All of my fish were alive. There was no food left and the water did not cloud.

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I've been feeding our guppies with this stuff full-time for about 2 years now -they've been living on it exclusively. There's always a block in the tank; a new one goes in every few weeks. We've seen absolutely no sign of any clouding, rotting, starving, degradation, smell, or any of the other symptoms described in these negative reviews. The fish peck at the block when they're hungry, and the rest of the time it just sits there. I have to question who is writing these bad reviews -other fish food makers?

The only other explanation I can think of for the bad reviews is just plain poorly-maintained tanks which can't survive being unattended while the owners go on vacation. Most of the symptoms here sound like simple cases of poor filtration, no temperature control, no testing of the water quality, overcrowding, or simply overfeeding. People, learn how to maintain your tanks. If you don't have and use a test kit that can show you ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, and PH levels, if you don't have good biological filtration, and if you don't have a heater or thermometer in the tank, then you are most likely torturing your fish.