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Tricycle Rider said:
froze said:
I don't know about JmDirt, but my wife and I years ago swore off of never ever getting a puppy, the potty training business soured us to that primarily, but also the chewing and thus destruction of things we might not want destroyed! We have never to this day ever got a puppy, the youngest dog we've ever had was one years old, fully potty trained and anti chew trained! We get all of our dogs from pounds or shelters, over the years we've adopted 5 dogs, we don't usually have more then one dog at a time and always larger breed dogs, but when our kids lived with us at one time we had two dogs, a small one for the kids to tease, and large one for roughhousing with! LOL!! We mostly stuck with pure or mix labs and retrievers due to their temperment, but once we had a German Shepherd which was a great dog and I hope someday to get another.
We won't do cats anymore, we had a cat after we first got married and that one was great but when it died we got a couple of more and they were destructive with their constant clawing, so after that we vowed off cats, besides no matter how hard you train a cat it won't get the newspaper...what good is a cat if it can't play fetch and get a newspaper?
We do fish but you know they can't get the paper either, they just eat and swim around, but I guess they do add a soothing sense to the decor.
Fish can be cool, I currently have a couple of goldfish in a 10-gallon tank. (They were about 50cents each, they were meant as food for bigger fish. I felt sorry for them, so I at least rescued a couple of them.)
I had fancier fish a while back in a bigger tank, but they were more delicate, they kinda croaked on me. Goldfish are easy, and being they are so cheap I'll probably get more once my current ones bite the dust. (Fish/aquariums are indeed soothing, btw., for me the funnest part is buying all the toys you can put in the aquarium.
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Nice you rescued some dogs from the shelter, there are so many who need a good home.
We use to do the goldfish thing but stopped because they're dirty fish, they poop a lot! We have fresh water community type of fish, I don't know what they are because it's not a hobby for me, it's just something my wife likes but not a hobby for her either! LOL!! These community fish are pretty easy and cheap nor do they croak a bunch either. Mine average between 5 to 10 years, I know people I talked to are amazed as to how long ours lives, not sure why ours do, I "think" it's because my aquarium is a 45 gallon tank and I have a Fluval Aqua Clear Power Filter that is rated for 40 to 70 gallon tank instead of the typical 20 to 50 gallon most people buy for our size tank, so maybe it's the better filtration job that is making the fish live longer? I don't know, but I do know that with the bigger one there is a bit of a current in the tank whereas with smaller ones there wasn't. I also have an aerator in the tank as well, so maybe that helps? I'm not an expert on this sort of thing but I always tend to do things a bit more then required so I got a filtering system that is one size up for the size of the tank. I don't like this sort of thing taking a lot of my time, so the larger filtering system I've notices doesn't require as much tank cleaning as it did with smaller units and that's a big plus for me! I also like the Fluval the best of the ones I've tried, the main foam filter and the BioMax rocks are all washable, the only thing I have to replace is the carbon bag. Speaking of the filters, with this Fluval you can actually increase the filtering capability, so what I've done is I have the foam filter, on top of that I put a ammonia remover, on top that I put 2 carbon baggies spread out to form a bed on top of which I put the BioMax rocks, typically I'm suppose to use the foam, one of either a carbon or a phosphate, and the rocks, but I read about users doing this on the internet so I did it and it works great. The carbon bags should be replaced once a month, and the ammonia bags about once every 3 months. The Biomax rocks are also suppose to remove ammonia, so I am probably two timing it, but the fish seem happy so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing, and it's what some people on the internet were recommending as well.
I've had issues with the Aqueon and Marineland systems, both failed before the warranty was up, I had the Marineland one first it failed twice in a year, so I exchanged it for a Aqueon, it too failed twice in a year, so I exchanged it for Fluval, so far after a year it's still running. I had a Marineland that lasted 10 or so years, when it failed I bought another and now they won't last. They don't make anything like they use to, so I hope this Fluval lasts because I actually like the way it works better then the others, if not I may have to make a bigger price jump and go into systems like the smaller Eheim or the Penn Plax which a friend of mine claims their the best for tanks of my size up to 90 gallons, those are about 2 1/2 times more expensive but I don't like stuff failing prematurely either so it may be worth if that Fluval fails.
I kind of don't like the external systems like the Eheim and the Penn Plax because I never like the looks of something like those, but if comes down to it I'll do it.
I wanted a pirate ship in the water but my wife thought it was silly so I just have a "beach" house and a volcano that has the aerator inside, we have the usual rocks and plants, all of our rocks glow in the dark which is kind of cool to see when you turn the lights off, but the glowing effect only last about a 1/2 an hour, not sure if they make better glowing rocks are not.
Interesting dog related subject! it's the end of a weekend what the heck, although there is such a fish called a dogfish but their too big for my tank, but that may have been more on subject...Lol!!