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Some people will steal anything. I once had a an old, cheap, frayed, chewed leash stolen off my front porch. I kept it in a bucket next to the door behind a 2' wall. Someone actually had to come up to the door to know it was there at all.. Another time we were rebuilding a section of a wood...

I have a cat who drinks exclusively from my 5 gallon betta tank. It started with one of my three cats popping the lid of the tank off at night. I was worried about fishing but having difficulty finding a way to keep the lid on and still allow me easy access for water changes. I finaly caught her...

When I first got my first betta fish, I lived in a 10' x 10' room with three cats. I named the poor fish Lunch. It seemed fitting.. Except that every time he saw a cat he'd come rushing up to the side of the tank flaring and the cats would run away.

My first fish, I was about 8 or 9 years old. My parents got me a 10 gallon tank and believed all the myths. They started with the 'one inch per gallon' rule and got ten 1 inch feeder fish because 'fish only grow to the size of their tank'. They didn't get a filter because they believed goldfish...

I have some liquid calcium that I add when I do water changes. His shell seems thick and looks nice to me but I'm far from a snail expert. Occasionally I put in a weekend feeder block (the kind with calcium as the first ingredient) and he seems to really enjoy those once the fish get bored of...

My PH is 7.6 and I do add calcium just for him. He doesn't stay at the water line. Just closer to the top of the tank than the bottom. He's actually fairly active, just generally over the top half of the tank and the decorations/plants and not on the bottom. He seems to dislike the cory cats...

The fish are all bottom feeders. The snail spends his time near the top of the tank. If I expect him to eat just what the fish leave behind, he doesn't get there fast enough. It took me a while to realize this (hence the munched plants) as he was in with a betta before and it wasn't an issue...

He doesn't eat JUST algae. If you read the first post carefully, I point out that I normaly take great care to ensure that this snail gets a propper diet. However, and this is an important bit, I am going away for 2 weeks. I don't have anyone I know who will take the effort required to make sure...

The tank never gets direct sunlight. I'll try the stones like Tom mentioned if I can find somewhere to put it where my cats won't get into it. Silly things want to drink any water that isn't in their dish..

I'm going to be going away for a couple weeks. My fish will be fed but my mystery snail takes some special effort to make sure he gets enough food and doesn't eat my plants. When I do have algae (which isn't often), he happily eats that. When it's not there, and he's not getting enough food, he...

It's not the same kind of bacteria that you need to cycle a tank. The kind that's in a bacteria bloom is present everywhere. It can simply float into the tank from the air. It'll clear up in a few days if left alone.

One of my local fish stores has bettas in with black skirt tetras and other long finned, flashy fish. I suppose it's better than the cups for the bettas but I always feel bad for the other fish in the tanks because they're always chewed up and that's got to be stressful. The tanks are always...

My betta fish died today. I've had him roughly 6 months. He started out in a 10 gallon and was downgraded to a 5 gallon (used media from the other tank to cycle) a couple weeks ago. From start to finish, whatever killed him took 12 hours. He was literally acting perfectly normal at 9.30am when I...

No PH difference. No temp difference. No differences at all between the two tanks that I'm aware of. I moved him by bagging him, floating him, and gradually introducing new water to his bag over the period of about an hour before releasing him into the new tank. He was stressed by being bagged...

My betta fish died today. I've had him roughly 6 months. He started out in a 10 gallon and was downgraded to a 5 gallon (used media from the other tank to cycle) a couple weeks ago. From start to finish, whatever killed him took 12 hours. He was literally acting perfectly normal at 9.30am when I...

Listen to the nifty people here instead of the pet store people. I'm new to fish keeping, but I've already learned to pretty much disreguard most of what the people who sell me fish have to say. I don't have much advice BUT I do have some words of encouragement. It will NOT take 9 months and...

I make absolutley no comment about your friend. However, it really needs to be pointed out that there is a HUGE difference between a socialized dog and a well trained dog. For example, my mother had a rat terrier who was quite well trained. Knew dozens of commands. He could do any of them by...

I have scars from being attacked by a chihuahua. There have been cases of lhasas and shih tzus and other toy/small breed dogs killing children. One case that I remember particularly clearly, a man was laying on his living room floor playing with his small dog (I don't remember the breed) and it...

I had to start soaking mine for my fish to be able to eat them because they're a bit on the large side. A few minutes didn't do the trick though.. More like half an hour. Now he sucks them all down and looks at me like I should be giving him more. They still float just fine and my fish seems to...

Depending on circumstances, I would buy it. It'd certainly be handy right now. I patiently fishless cycled and then someone helped me with my tank and rinsed my filter with tap water.. I'm currently cycling my tank again and my poor fish is suffering for it. It'd be really handy right now to be...

Got a couple plants. Got new lights.. Did a water change and right in the middle of it my disabled cat fell off a shelf straight into the fish tank. She just happens to be shedding heavily. So now I have 1 Betta fish and a bunch of cat hair floating around my tank.. Hopefully the filter catches...

I've been following the fish-in cycle guide and actually stayed up last night to check his water and not make him wait until I woke up (and why I was doing water changes at 4am..). Good to know about the plants helping with the ammonia. I don't have any yet because I was still researching...

It's been 3 days since the 'help' and it's acting like it was when I cycled it before I brought home the fish. I took a read through the guides for fish-in cycling.. I'm just trying to stay on top of it now. Hopefully it doesn't take as long this time cause there should be some bacteria on the...

What's worse is the stores who say that they're fine living their entire lives in those little cups. I don't like that they're kept that way but I can't buy things online right now (no credit card or bank account since I've only been back in the US a few months) and it was either little fish in...

I just got back from 4 years in Switzerland. I take the cold just as well as the heat.. But I really do love the heat. Though the temp is already beginning to rise and it's only 4am. My original intent was to get African Dwarf Frogs but I can't simply because the water temp doesn't get low...

The ambient temp in the room is 86F (30C) right now and it's almost 2am with the AC running.. It's not going to get any cooler in here until mid-October or November. It's just not possible.. And this is a very mild summer for here too. I'll see if I can pick up some florescents in the morning...

I've got a new 10 US gallon tank. So far I have 1 betta fish (or siamese figher, however you prefer to call them). Due to the ambient temp in the room, I don't have the heater plugged in. It's there, just not plugged in and running because the temp of the tank fluctuates between 80-82F (26-27C)...