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Post by siobhan on Mar 22, 2015 19:49:32 GMT -5
Clyde objects to my interest in fish. If I want to look at them, particularly the bettas, he flies over and tries to make me stop. I feed them morning and night, and when I gave them their evening meal today, there was no sign of Freckles. He wasn't behind a plant. He wasn't in his pineapple cave. Clyde came over to make me stop looking and I explained that there wasn't any way Freckles could have gotten OUT, and I had to find him. Then I saw him, trapped between the filter and the tank wall. I got him out and he seems fine, but I pointed out to Clyde that it could have ended very badly for poor Freckles, as bettas breathe air, too, and he could have drowned. Clyde isn't buying. And now I'm paranoid about that filter and that Freckles could get stuck there again when I'm not here to find and free him.
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Post by Jan and Shah on Mar 22, 2015 20:54:29 GMT -5
Is there anything you can slip between the filter and the tank wall to stop him going in? Clyde just doesnt give you a chance does he?
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Post by siobhan on Mar 22, 2015 21:50:11 GMT -5
I'm thinking of trading his filter with one of the other tanks. The wizards have two filters because with four fish and a million snails, they need two, but they could have this one as one of theirs and I could put their outside-the-tank filter in for Freckles. He couldn't get trapped with it. A tube runs down into the water and sucks up the water and filters it and a little waterfall sends it back in. I don't think the wizards will be quite as tempted by it as Freckles is, and they're smaller, so if they did swim up there between it and the wall, they could get back out.
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Post by biteybird on Mar 23, 2015 2:08:51 GMT -5
Sounds like a plan! Clyde is super-jealous and possessive of you, isn't he?  |
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Post by julianna on Mar 23, 2015 12:09:54 GMT -5
It is kind of funny... as the birds have a real interest in water however, not so much when they know they cannot have it. Yesterday when Oscar kept telling me to take him to the bathroom... I thought it was because he wanted to go into his apartment (the drawer with face cloths). I kept saying no.. until I just couldn't take it... and I brought him in. He almost did a nose dive into the sink... duhhhh... he wanted a bath... and not the apartment. lol... Man he loves the water in the sink but wants nothing to do with the shower or my bathtub.... cause that is mine. lol
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Post by siobhan on Mar 23, 2015 12:54:02 GMT -5
Clyde used to love baths in the sink at our old house. After we moved, he wouldn't take a sink bath anymore. I should point out that we brought that sink with us. I've offered to let him take baths in the utility sink in their room and he won't do that, either.
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Post by biteybird on Mar 25, 2015 5:22:47 GMT -5
Hmm, possessive, headstrong AND oppositional-defiant...lucky you  |
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Post by puck on Mar 29, 2015 22:16:00 GMT -5
Sounds like a plan! Clyde is super-jealous and possessive of you, isn't he? Today Sammy bit my dog Vader on the nose because I dared to look in his direction. You're lucky Clyde hasn't figured out a way to "go fishing", lol! |
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Post by siobhan on Mar 30, 2015 10:10:13 GMT -5
The tiels are very interested in the fish, but all the tanks have hoods to prevent bird swimming. LOL Freddie got behind Freckles' tank on Saturday and Freckles was equally fascinated by having a bird staring at him and stared back. I just can't figure out why Clyde isn't interested in the fish. He loved my aquarium screen saver and I was sure he'd enjoy real fish. I think Clyde's real problem is that when I'm looking at them, I'm not looking at HIM. He also objects when I talk to Jade even if she's across the room at the time, and the only other bird I'm allowed to notice is Benjy.
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Post by Jan and Shah on Mar 30, 2015 15:36:20 GMT -5
Shah was never interested in the betta - he wouldnt even look at it - just looked everywhere else when I was showing him. However, he hated the chooks. I would stand by the window with him on my hand and point out the chooks. I got bitten on the face every time I did it. They werent even near him - the fact that I was looking at something else made him cross with me. So I know where you are coming from with Clyde. I think they may have been twins that got separated at hatching.
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