Quick and Easy Way to Help With the Goldfish Tank SmellWritten by Laura Hickey- http://www.laurahickey.com
I was excited to have a goldfish until this awful smell filled up room. I had tried liquids that you put into tank to help with smell. The tank did look attractive with water being a combination of purple and blue but 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 basics. You have a filter and food. Only feed amount your fish can eat in 5 minutes. No less and no more. When feeding your goldfish, turn down water filter so food won’t be sucked up into it. Let’s start with cleaning water. Once a week remove 50% of 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 fish tank to remove algae that can make water dirty and smelly. After cleaning water and removing algae, put back on bubble curtain. A bubble curtain is good for adding oxygen to tank and fish may use bubbles as a massage. Each month clean gravel and filter. This could mean buying new gravel or cleaning existing gravel. It's not a good idea to use household soap to do this as it could harm fish. If you're on a budget, you could rinse fish filter but I don't recommend doing so. This is an easy way to clean and maintain your goldfish tank. In 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 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 other way round. Maybe they search for support or a good and warm home for their kittens. Now, perhaps you don’t have 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 work of animal shelters. In fact, I got my current cat from one of them, and I’m pretty sure 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 cat you brought in, was killed.
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