What pets do you have

[Koz]

I have two cats.

5 years ago, I had 2 german shepherds and 9 puppies!! (German shepherds)

[Valve Bounce]

I live in the "Yappy dog house!"

2 dogs, a Pomeranian and a Chihuahua

Hey!! I've got a long haired Chihuahua called Benny. His pic is in this thread, http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...g+to+boot+camp


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[themo]

Three dogs a English Bull Terrier,A Alsation and a Heinz 57 plus 7 Goldfish

[Daz]

How do your cats and ferrets get along?

The ferrets are kept outside so don't have much contact with the cats. When we bring the ferrets in to the house the cats get on well with them and do try to play a bit with them.

[Daz]

One Leopard Gecko called Gizmo.

Small tropical fish tank.

Yeh another person with a Leo. By any chance do you use RFUK at all and are you looking for any more Leo's

[xtlm]

dis 1!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeZgKLiU1bc

well, he is my friends...but is awesome anyway!

[Mark]

It's been a steep learning curve keeping fish. You'd think just put a fish an a tank a feed it once a day, but not a bit of it! Pity two fish had to die along the way however .

[Bezza]

I have no pets, and disagree strongly with vegetarianism.

[Easy Drifter]

Yes Mark there is a lot more to keeping fish than just throwing them in tank or pond. Understanding the danger from ammonia, nitrite and the one most forget nitrate. Regular water changes are required. Care not to overfeed are just a few things.
Having been a professional for many years I do know quite a bit about it. Like over 10,000 gallons and thousands of fish. I was also a writer on fishkeeping for consumer magazines.
The ones that brag they kept a goldfish alive for a year. UGH! they can live for 20+ and should live at least 10 years.
Oh and my wife was a Int'l Speaker on African Cichlids.

[Mark]

Yes Mark there is a lot more to keeping fish than just throwing them in tank or pond. Understanding the danger from ammonia, nitrite and the one most forget nitrate. Regular water changes are required. Care not to overfeed are just a few things.
Having been a professional for many years I do know quite a bit about it. Like over 10,000 gallons and thousands of fish. I was also a writer on fishkeeping for consumer magazines.
The ones that brag they kept a goldfish alive for a year. UGH! they can live for 20+ and should live at least 10 years.
Oh and my wife was a Int'l Speaker on African Cichlids.

Ah good. Good to have someone who knows their stuff!

We have a 25 litre, 'Aqua One' tank.. which says fish keeping has never been easier, apparently.

We got Fish 1, which was a small fantail. And he died within 5 days. Mostly due to an argulus attaching itself to its tail and that it also had whitespot, although I didn't know that at the time.

Fish 2, which was a straight tail goldfish, lasted two weeks was okay for the first week and then contracted white spot in the second, I think from a water change I did. Unfortunately we didn't know what the white spots were and by the time I'd googled it and found out what it was, we bought the treatment but, alas, it was too late.
We got the water tested afterwards and the ammonia was sky high, even though we'd only given him one flake a day, I think the filter just hadn't got working properly yet.

Fish 3, a fancy tailed goldfish has been going for 3 weeks now. We've had the water tested and things seem ok and the tank is cycling correctly. We've done two 15% water changes, this time putting white spot treatement in first, as well as the declorinators etc and leaving the water to settle overnight before putting it in the tank.

Although he seems to be ok, he does spend quite a bit of time hiding amongst the plants, or wedging himself amongst them, although usually comes out every 10 minutes or so and swims about a bit. I now think that the big filter they've supplied is too strong. It kicks out once heck of a current which can easily fling the fish from one side of the tank to the other if he gets caught in the full blast. I think he's trying to sheter from the current.

I've currently got a seperate air pump / supply on order which will feed air from the bottom of the tank which will allow me to disconnect the air supply on the filter, which in turn will allow me to use the connector which can move the flow out of the filter in a different direction to try and cut down the current a little bit for him.