2 lessons

[fishhead0103666]

These are 2 lessons I learned a while ago but forgot to tell yall about.
#1 watch out where you sit if you're 200 pounds. I tend to split my glass hoods apart into 2 pieces so it's easier for me to just move them to feed them without having to worry about them falling back and breaking. Well I tend to put them on my bed when I feed the tank.... I also tend to not look when I sit... You know where this is headed.
My big ol' 200 self has sat on quite a number of glass hoods and as a result broken them. Moral of the story, have thick acrylic hoods and don't be fat enough to break them..
#2 Always assume your fish is hell bent on committing suicide. I was changing the water on my 29 which mainly has small fish, zebra danios, rasboras, misc. So my cat runs away with the toilet paper because he likes to shred it so I chase after him. 4 seconds later I'm back and one of the zebra danios has swam up the python and got his stuck partially into the tube. I had to stop everything and blow the end of the tube to shoot the little pita out. His head was shaped weirdly for a while.
Here's an extra lesson for all yall. Never get a cat, they will steal your toilet paper and ruin it.

Here's the toilet paper thief himself.

 

[tlindsey]

These are 2 lessons I learned a while ago but forgot to tell yall about.
#1 watch out where you sit if you're 200 pounds. I tend to split my glass hoods apart into 2 pieces so it's easier for me to just move them to feed them without having to worry about them falling back and breaking. Well I tend to put them on my bed when I feed the tank.... I also tend to not look when I sit... You know where this is headed.
My big ol' 200 self has sat on quite a number of glass hoods and as a result broken them. Moral of the story, have thick acrylic hoods and don't be fat enough to break them..
#2 Always assume your fish is hell bent on committing suicide. I was changing the water on my 29 which mainly has small fish, zebra danios, rasboras, misc. So my cat runs away with the toilet paper because he likes to shred it so I chase after him. 4 seconds later I'm back and one of the zebra danios has swam up the python and got his stuck partially into the tube. I had to stop everything and blow the end of the tube to shoot the little pita out. His head was shaped weirdly for a while.
Here's an extra lesson for all yall. Never get a cat, they will steal your toilet paper and ruin it.
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Here's the toilet paper thief himself.

Thanks for the heads up and the cat looks mischievous lol.

 

[fishhead0103666]

He always tries to look innocent when I'm trying to take a picture of him -_-.

 

[Go_redfish]

What dafuq is up with that little mutant turd's eye?

There are lots of reasons to not get a cat. Grand theft toilet paper is the least of them.

 

[fishhead0103666]

It never healed properly from whatever he had when we first found him.

 

[MrsE88]

Haha, naughty little turd.
I kicked my cat outside. I can’t stand the litter box anymore. I enjoy my outside farm cats much more then house cats.

When you go to feed why not just leave the lid on the tank?
The plastic piece that works as a hing on the lids broke on one tank so I just lift and scoot the front piece back onto the back glass section while I feed. If that makes sense. Lol.

 

[fishhead0103666]

It makes sense. And for me, it takes about 2 seconds to toss it onto my pillow behind me while it takes longer to get it to sit on the back glass. I guess I pay for being too lazy by having to buy new glass hoods :/. But I use the broken glass as a diy fix for a lot of sittuff so it could be good depending on how you look at it.
Also in my experience after a few months upto a year the plastic stuff that keeps the glass pieces together and makes it works as a hinge gets worn down and gets a lot of holes in it and I could pull them apart with my pinkies.

 

[MrsE88]

Yeah they don’t last long. At least depending on the brand. My thin glass lids had a really thin plastic that only made it just over a year before breaking apart. My think glass tops are over a year old with no holes or breaks in the plastic.

 

[J. H.]

I have 14+ yr old glass lids on my 55, and they are doing fine. They are easier to clean then acrylic ones and don't turn yellow.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Well I don't know what to tell you but mine always fall apart.