Pets: Quick and Easy Way to Help With the Goldfish Tank Smell

Quick and Easy Way to Help With the Goldfish Tank Smell

Written by Laura Hickey- http://www.laurahickey.com

I was excited to have a goldfish until this awful smell filled up repparttar

room. I had tried liquids that you put into repparttar 139169

tank to help with repparttar 139170

smell. The tank did look attractive with repparttar 139171

water being a combination of purple and blue but repparttar 139172

smell just wouldn’t budge. So after many tries, once a week cleaning has worked so far. Here’s what you'll need:

Materials: Filters

Water/Bubble Curtain

Algae Scrapper

Siphon

Let’s start with repparttar 139173 basics. You have a filter and food. Only feed repparttar 139174 amount your fish can eat in 5 minutes. No less and no more. When feeding your goldfish, turn down repparttar 139175 water filter so repparttar 139176 food won’t be sucked up into it. Let’s start with cleaning repparttar 139177 water. Once a week remove 50% of repparttar 139178 water in your tank by siphoning. Make sure you do this slowly so you don't scare your fish. Replace with fresh water. Take an Algae scrapper and scrap along all sides of repparttar 139179 fish tank to remove algae that can make repparttar 139180 water dirty and smelly.

After cleaning repparttar 139181 water and removing repparttar 139182 algae, put back on repparttar 139183 bubble curtain. A bubble curtain is good for adding oxygen to repparttar 139184 tank and repparttar 139185 fish may use repparttar 139186 bubbles as a massage. Each month clean repparttar 139187 gravel and filter. This could mean buying new gravel or cleaning repparttar 139188 existing gravel. It's not a good idea to use household soap to do this as it could harm repparttar 139189 fish. If you're on a budget, you could rinse repparttar 139190 fish filter but I don't recommend doing so. This is an easy way to clean and maintain your goldfish tank. In repparttar 139191 past I’ve tried plants but ended up with no results. Some extra supplies are:

A Pregnant Stray Cat Adopted You – And Now What?

Written by Marc de Jong

It happens all too often. A family or cat friend gets adopted by a stray cat. And after a few weeks it turns out she’s pregnant.

In repparttar US alone there must be millions of sweet but homeless cats. And many of them get pregnant several times a year. Nobody really knows why, but pregnant strays often adopt a family instead of repparttar 139102 other way round. Maybe they search for support or a good and warm home for their kittens.

Now, perhaps you don’t have repparttar 139103 space or time for a cat family. Or there’s another reason that makes it difficult to have these kittens. But you don’t want to throw this stray out. She’s expecting babies, isn’t she?!

Now what can you do?

You could take her to an animal shelter. That’s not always a good idea.

Don’t get me wrong: I value repparttar 139104 work of animal shelters. In fact, I got my current cat from one of them, and I’m pretty sure repparttar 139105 next will come from a shelter too. But some animal shelters reportedly put a pregnant stray to sleep. You’ll blame yourself forever if you hear repparttar 139106 cat you brought in, was killed.

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