Should I get a fish if I travel or work a lot?

Should I get a fish if I travel or work a lot?

Marc Grover (Professional Aquarist) gives expert video advice on: Do fish make good pets?; How much time and energy do fish need? and more...

You can. You just need to establish what you're going to do for feeding that fish or your many fish that you have when you're gone. There are slow-dissolving tablets that work relatively inefficiently, but they do function if it's only going to be a day or two. There are some really nice automatic feeders out on the marketplace that will work for almost every type of fish tank. When you get into more sophisticated aquariums, like reef tanks with living corals and what have you, if you're going to be gone for more than a few days, what you need is to have someone you trust be able to come into the house and perform some very minor things, like putting in liquid foods or frozen foods for your fish. It's very easy to teach them, and if you're gone on vacation and you have someone coming in to do anything, whether it's pick up mail or feed your dog, they can easily lump that into their duties when they come to help you out with your house.