Aquarists, UNITE!!!

[Garter_Gertie]

Then my work here is done!! LOL

I discovered Jeffy's problem!!!!!!!!!!

The problem is-- was-- my huge fluffy black cat Evie was getting on top of the tank and fishing!!!! I've changed tops, Evie can't fish, and Jeffy is coming back out more and more!!!!

Well! Clear as a bell NOW! Yup.

Glad to hear it the prob's taken care of. You and Jeffy were stressed and I'm glad things are getting back to normal.

[Snake lover 3-25]

lol too funny glad you discovered the problem lol

my cat fished out my brothers beta fish and it was found behind his dresser anout 3 months later lol it was grose

[infernalis]

Well its official, Peach wins the lottery.

I never pictured myself with an Oscar (Astronotus Ocellatus) The fiery redish orange kind.

The longer we have her, the more I like having her.(if that makes sense) like a tumor she has grown on me....

We have the perfect spot for one of those huge corner tanks.

Funny thing, that dace minnow is still in there and very much alive, it even races up top and steals pellets before peach gets to them.

The minnow is very fast, the ONLY thing that keeps it alive.

Lesser minnows have tried and failed.

[Garter_Gertie]

Yes, Dekay, they do grow on you. Years and years and years ago a friend o'mine had two platter-sized oscars and when they went to the Big Fish Bowl In The Sky we both cried and cried. They're wonderful fish; very 'cat-like,' in a way.

[olive oil]

I bet that minnows days are numbered! She'll get em one day.

[infernalis]

Fun as all get out to watch, just as the Oscar lines up for the kill, silver lightning goes flash, and it repeats until the Oscar tires of it.

When I put pellets in there the minnow will tempt fate and dart right up in front of Peach and grab one, then zing back down so fast its like a blur.

The minnow was supposed to be food, however it has been in there over a week or so.

[Loren]

Years ago I had 2 large mouth bass and 2 blue gills, all about 4", in a tank. Talk about cleaning up a bunch of feeder fish fast!
At the time, we had several large cattle tanks stocked with guppies/mosquito fish, so I could drop 20-30 in the tank any time I wanted. They were all gone in seconds.
I gave one blue gill away early on. One bass died early. One bass and 1 blue gill made it to 8.5 " long before the bass died and I gave the blue gill away. Wish I would have kept the blue gill.

[infernalis]

Sounds fascinating Loren.

Blue gills, sunfish and pumpkin seeds all look very pretty in a tank.

A 55 or larger can support a couple but like Oscars, with steady food and no predation, they will get big enough to outgrow a 55 quickly.

About the only way to keep healthy bass in captivity is a pond, they like big territory.

Sort of like the pike I once mentioned.

[Snake lover 3-25]

OMG!!! i oficially hate these fish!!!! they are causing SOOOOO many problems!!!!

first their filters are dumb so the tank turns completely yellow about every 5 DAYS.....

SECOND they love to eat and torture eachother

third their cage is death


ok so i go upstairs to check on them and make sure they haven't all died yet and notice that there is a small line of water underneath the cage.... so i go around back because a few days earlier i had accidentally chipped the corner.... it didn't go all the way through so i had thought nothing of it.... so i go around to the back of the tank and there is a HUGE crack going all the way up the side of the cage and it was spewing out water!!!!!! so i try to tape it up..... dumb idea.... now the water starts to spray out.... everywhere..... so i have to catch all the stupid fish with a cup because i can't find the net while trying to not break the tank because by this time the crack was about a cm from both the top and the bottom edges.... so finally i get out all of the fish and start to empty out the water which i had JUST replaced 2 days earlier!!!!!! i hate these fish!!!!!!!!!!! so now i have no tank for them and they are sitting in two small 2 gal tanks..... there are 7 gf, 2 minnows, one sucker fish.... 4" one big GF 4" and a snail..... all in 4 gallons of water..... omg i hate fish!!!!!

[kurtnagel]

Shanley,

I can't tell you how many times I have had to rescue my fish from a rapidly draining tank. Usually from my own stupidity. The worst was when I was younger, I had just moved/refilled my 20G tank, with ~15 assorted tropicals only to find I had pinned a jar between the back of the tank and the wall. So not realizing the tension involved, I just grabbed the bottle and pulled, thinking it would just slip out. WRONG, CRACK ! The water drained so fast, It was down to a couple of inches when I was catching the last fish. Since I had just transferred the tank and fish, I had a bucket near by, but I was not able to capture any of the draining water, so I had a bucket of tropical fish, no tank and a floor covered in water (thankfully basement linoleum)