DAY 14: Betta Babysitting?

We're going out of town for a few days sometime soon, and poor Greenie will be left all alone. We went to the pet store and asked if a betta fish could go three days without being fed, and they said yes as if it was no big deal at all. We'll still worry about the little guy, though. I wish they had time-release dissolving cake things like for goldfish. The advice I've found online is to be sure to feed the betta right before you leave town. The time of the year is good for this--not too cold or too hot. If he were a baby betta, we probably couldn't leave him at all. Some people actually take their bettas with them--I think that's a little much.