Aquarists, UNITE!!!

[mtolypetsupply]

Thanks, everybody! Hanna just LOVES her fishies! I'll post pics tomorrow, but today, Gary (hubby) and I built her a "viewing platform". It's much better than the chair she dragged over (I'm saving for her tuition at MIT, my little engineer!). With the new viewing apparatus, she shouldn't be able to pull anything over, but I'll look into those furniture straps. I can get another tank and fish, but she's too cute to be all scarred up from the broken glass.

Oh, and Photoshop needs to put a few tools on their programs, like "Click here to clean up the room" or a "Declutter" button or something. LOL

[infernalis]

Oh, and Photoshop needs to put a few tools on their programs, like "Click here to clean up the room" or a "Declutter" button or something. LOL

That's why heavy cropping is so popular

Chop out everything but the subject you are photographing.

[infernalis]

Oscar question....

Last night Peach ate a pinky mouse and wanted more.

Are they ok to feed as treats??

Or will I slowly kill my fish?

Thanks.

P.S. (edit) I just read from a very UNRELIABLE source that fat content in the pinks can cause heart problems in Oscars.. Seems to make sense, how many mice will an Oscar get to eat in the wild?

Then again, due to the nature of this fish, I imagine anything that tries to swim in the same water is fair game?

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Such as the case with northamerican bass and virtually all other fish. Anything small enough to fit in the fishes mouth that ends up in or above the wter is fair game. I don't see how the occasional pinky would hurt him. Now a diet of purely pinks would probably be no good, but I don't see it hurting in moderation. Better than goldfish

[infernalis]

Thanks Shannon (again) your on early today

Peach gets proper fish food, and pellets. I give her leftover fish from the garter feedings from time to time as well.

[Zephyr]

Pinks are fine with Oscars.
The only thing you'll get from overfeeding with pinks is a fat Oscar; it's very hard to damage a fish's internal organs through diet.

[Garter_Gertie]

No wonder she stares you down, Dekay... She knows a loving sucker when she sees one. Bet she never got PINKIES before.

Man. You are one Romeo and know how to play all women: human, snakeish, scaleish.

[infernalis]

She will swim up and stick her head out of the water to pluck the pinky from my fingers.....

She likes to wreck the inside of her tank all the time too.

She acts like a monitor with fins!

[Lori P]

Wayne, that is so neat that she comes up and takes food like that. Very cool fishy!!!

I picked this guy up the other day when I went to the bait store to get minnows... he had somehow flipped into the minnow tank and I mentioned what a nice looking fish he was, and the guy plopped him in my bucket and gave him to me. :-) Here he is in the isolation tank with the minnows getting de-parasited.



I'll move him in with Jeffy in a few days... not sure now if that 29 gallon tank will be big enough for the both of them...

[Garter_Gertie]

Dekay, You've not seen Peaches pick up rocks from the bottom o'the tank and move them around?

Peaches is a chiclid (sp?) and they do that very frequently.

Lori, quarantine for at leat four weeks - if not six - before putting the new fishy with Jeffy... Sorry to make that a command - let me rephrase: You may want to think about quarantine The New Guy 4-6 weeks before putting him with Jeffy...