Cat advice ( fish safety )

hotsauce48 · Post by **hotsauce48** » 04 Jan 2009, 01:23

do you guy have any adviceon keeping a real pet cat ( the mammal with 4 legs ) with a fish tank. The last fish tank I had was a 5 gal with baby gold fish,She had jumped in and caught a goldfish in her mouth but spit it out. help.

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 04 Jan 2009, 02:17

keep lids on all your tanks. If the cat is smart enough to open them, hmmm, close the fish room door? is the tank is out in the house somewhere, can you lay a book on top of the lid or something so she / he cannot open it?

doodle · Post by **doodle** » 04 Jan 2009, 10:46

I have 4 cats and two tanks, although each tank has their lid on.

No cat has got them yet even when i am cleaning the tank. One cat has got wet when he jumped onto the tank thinking the lid was there but thats about it.

They like sleeping on the tanks but i find they dont seem to be that interested in the fish much.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 04 Jan 2009, 23:45

We have 4 cats (3 adults, one "teenage" daughter of one of the adults). None of them have managed to catch any fish - one pood in a bucket of gravel in the fishroom when it got locked in there by mistake, but that's a different matter.

As stated, make sure that you have lids/covers on all tanks [that's a good idea for all sorts of other reasons too - fish have a harder time jumping out and you get less evaporation/condensation problems - and it also keeps the temperature in the tank more constant, as draughts and other temporary temperature changes will not get directly to the water].

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Mats

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