FISH

[Jersey]

phil said:

They don't escape and run all over the hosue do they? My wife would freak.

I used to have an iguana, and he would to find ways to get out every year or so. I remember one incident where he got out and we couldnt find him. (He wasn't hard to spot at 6 feet long!)

When we finally did find him he was clinging to one of the sweatshirts in my fathers room, hiding under the sleeve. Only his tail gave him away.

[earlthekevin]

Well leopard geckos don't escape because you put a lid thing on top. I wish I had an iguana but they're too hard to take care of.

[Jersey]

earlthekevin said:

Well leopard geckos don't escape because you put a lid thing on top. I wish I had an iguana but they're too hard to take care of.

I did have a lid, but he was a professional escape artist. Yeah he was definitely a trip when I had him. Still have that scar on my finger too. Lasting reminder I suppose.

[Blastgirl]

How long did your Iguana live?

[Hatson]

If you have fish and you're going to be away for 2 or 3 days you don't have to feed them. It doesn't hurt them at all to go that amound of time without food.

If you're going to be away longer you should make sure the person you have feed them knows something about fish. Especially goldfish and the tropical fish most people have will eat whatever you give them and over feeding kills them. If they ever swim upsidedown they have a damages swimblatter and that means they have been overfed.

Sometimes an assigned caretaker assumes if they eat it all up right away they must have been hungry so you better give them more. Not true. feed the prescribed amount and no more.

[Phil]

Maybe a fish person would know, is a parot fish something you might see in home fish tanks?

[dannyboy]

Yeah I've seen them in fishtanks. They have a parrotlike face but a colorful fish body.

[Kevin]

dannyboy said:

Yeah I've seen them in fishtanks. They have a parrotlike face but a colorful fish body.

Google image search doesn't always find you a real picture. That's a fake.

Here is a parrot fish:

[Captain Awesome]

Eh, it was close.

[Kimm]

Theyre pretty. Dans looks more like a parrot though.

[dannyboy]

I suppose they're going to tell me a sea horse is not really a horse. I could see John Wayne riding off on one of these guys.

[Blastgirl]

Does anybody know how this fishtank is possible?

The fish can easily travel from the upper tank to the lower and vice versa. So they are one tank but how does it work without water flowing over the sides of the lower tank?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5InNVJ_Ythc

[earlthekevin]

It's the same effect as sucking water into a straw and putting your finger over the top end and taking it out of the glass. The water won't 'fall' out of the straw as long as your finger is on one end.

[Blastgirl]

I read that reply too but what's the finger holding the water in the straw in this case? The fishtank lid?

[gifish]

Yeah, I guess the lid keeps the water in there.
What I don't understand is that there is a pump blowing bubbles of air up into the top of the tank, but the water still stays. How does that work? It makes no sense.

If I were a fish in that tank I think I'd be pretty confused about the strange pillar of water sticking up in the air.

[Hatson]

I was going to say it's like if you cup your hand over a glass of water and then put the glass upside down in the sink before removing your hand as long as the seal is not broken the water would stay in the glass. But I think the bubbling filter system would break the seal so I think gifish has a point.

[dannyboy]

That is easily the best fishtank I have ever seen.

[gifish]

I quite agree. It's certainly inventive.

My only guess is that there's something in the lid that sucks air out of the tank as fast as it is being put in. It seems to me that that would be pretty difficult to accomplish, so I doubt that's the case. Whatever it is, its got me wondering.