Plastic critter cages submersed in tanks

[ShadowBass]

oh, for feeders! Feeders don't really introduce disease if eaten all at once. As soon as they are eaten, the predator's stomach acids destroy diseases. The problem is when they stay some time in the water, such as not being eaten. Then the disease spreads. Keeping them in a holding tank in your tank might actually be worse than having them all be eaten at once.

That's not true, it depends on the disease. Some diseases can spread through any contact whatsoever.

The main danger with feeders though is internal parasites.

 

[ShadowBass]

They're or turtles and I wanted to have some of them live for awhile..
like the long rosiereds and the big goldfish.

onion01, are you saying that the plastic cage will be too heavy on the bottom of the tank?

I'm not getting your logic here.

The water in the critter keeper is no more dense than the water surrounding the critter keeper. The water in the critter keeper is adding no more weight than was already present in that spot.

The plastic cage itself weighs almost nothing, why would it effect the glass?

 

[Oddball]

oh, for feeders! Feeders don't really introduce disease if eaten all at once. As soon as they are eaten, the predator's stomach acids destroy diseases. The problem is when they stay some time in the water, such as not being eaten. Then the disease spreads. Keeping them in a holding tank in your tank might actually be worse than having them all be eaten at once.

Please tell me you're joking with this. Because this ideology will never work on planet Earth.

 

[davo]

Hi, I wanted to get those small critter cages that people keep like crickets and betta in. and I wanted to submerse it in my tank but will the weight of the critter cage+water=crack my 40gallon tank?

oh, for feeders! Feeders don't really introduce disease if eaten all at once. As soon as they are eaten, the predator's stomach acids destroy diseases. The problem is when they stay some time in the water, such as not being eaten. Then the disease spreads. Keeping them in a holding tank in your tank might actually be worse than having them all be eaten at once.

you guys are too funny
don't feed goldfish to your turtles

 

[Onion01]

so you are telling me that if the fish has a nasty case of ich, and you leave it in the same tank as another fish, eventually the other fish won't catch ich once the parasites start free swimming?

 

[Onion01]

and no, I meant that the plastic is so light it won't make a difference. Not that it will crack the glass.

 

[ewurm]

Is this thread serious?

 

[davo]

so you are telling me that if the fish has a nasty case of ich, and you leave it in the same tank as another fish, eventually the other fish won't catch ich once the parasites start free swimming?

ich isn't the only disease/problem that another fish/water is currently in that can be introduced into a tank.

 

[Pufferpunk]

I'm glad someone finally brought up the subject of it being a bad idea at all to feed feeders to yur fish. It's so much cheaper & much more nutritious to get them on dead foods--even turtles.

 

[balton777]

I'm glad someone finally brought up the subject of it being a bad idea at all to feed feeders to yur fish. It's so much cheaper & much more nutritious to get them on dead foods--even turtles.

Feed them dead turtles?