this is a brill idea !!!!

ok you all know E is a bit of a Bugger bite-ing
well I now use this.>>> lol






Backscratcher.



he can bite this all he wants its plastic.
and it reaches the bottom ok.
so i can rake through the gravel

I Use one of these in the marine tank too to pick up and arrange corals,
its like my 3rd hand...lol

nice idea chez - bet that has elvis confused



dekker

what fish we talking about what bites here ? lol the oscar ?

I think chez is now a few fingers less, thanks to both the Oscar and Nemo. She must just have really appealing fingers

haha never had that problem been bite off my breeding pair of geo brasili's when they had spawned and he would not let go that hurt !

ive been spiked a couple of times by fish - actually the most painful was from an oto

worst bite of all time was from a Kia Parrot - nearly took my thumb off :O

What a great idea, chez. I hate putting my hands in the water so I use a pair of aquarium tongs to add/remove veg and plant weights.

i love my hands in the water thats the best thing about fish keeping just i put them in when my breeding pair was breeding not a good thing to do lol

off to get myself a back scratcher now - may try it in tank as well





dekker

maybe you have 'fish fingers' chez

Great idea

i aint happy i jinxed my self today at work i was hand feeding the oscar and it jumped out and bite me !!! i jinxed my self cause of you chez ! i blame you !

it makes you jump doesan't it..lol

ow yes and swear when people was in the shop lol he is a big guy too !
i didnt get chance to get the tank lid of before he had my finger in his mouth lol

My dwarf hamster woke in a bad mood this morning and lunged herself at my hand when I was putting her food bowl in the cage. Maybe I should use the tongs in future...

Dwarf hamsters are nippy anyway - cute but feisty - like gremlins

i'm waiting for horace to get a hold of chez's fingers





dekker

is that those hmm how do i spell it...cyrian?

I had one many years ago and it used to be a tiny ninja hamster...EVILLLLL!

However today I was at my fishs temp house and helped him clean the tanks out and hamme down my reef bone (long story)

The decorator crab took a fancy to my thumb..little bugger!!! he will be going the journey when I got the tank set up!!

Syrian is the name of regular pet hamster

Many different names for the dwarf ones, ie Russian Hamster, Dwarf Hamsters, plus others, those are the little ones - in Germany - I believe the wild hamsters grow nr the size of guninea pigs and are a real pest to farmers as they steal n hoard so much food

Point ofq interest- syrian hamsters are believed to e extinct in the wild - I think it was 1907 when a scientist dug out a burrow in the syrian desert and found 7 hamsters - some died in transit - the rest are the origgins of all pet hamsters (of the syrian type) in the world

Fact number two (if you dont think they can breed fast enough to create the above numbers) a hamster is of breeding age at 7 week old I believe they are in the guiness book of records for this - and similarly (like most rodents) on giving birth, they are ready to breed again (oh stop screaming woman - i boiled the kettle n got towels what more do you want - dinner?)

yes im full of useless crud

My sister said tip of the day - dont hold a hamster after holding a chinchilla - the hamster will object to the smell and show you what real pain is all about

Rich wrote:

My sister said tip of the day - dont hold a hamster after holding a chinchilla - the hamster will object to the smell and show you what real pain is all about

I'll try to remember that.

My dwarf hamster is a Winter White/Siberian/Russian Dwarf. AFAIK the names are interchangeable.

yup = the other commonly sold one (whether its same thing i m not sure) is fwartzoffski or something weird like that

I used to make mine white - real easy a roller and a can of dulux - actually - lower the room temp and suround the cage with white paper and you can con them into thinkinging its snowing and they put on winter camo (all white)

You can always use it on Malc if he gets out of hand too chez