Hair algae/coral die off problem solved - cat pee!

[randy 12]

Been having a problem with some nasty looking hair algae - not the normal dark green stuff but slimy brown hair algae. Plus corals, including even polyps and mushrooms dying off. Appropriate VHO lighting with bulbs being only a few months old. No fish in the tank. As my husband was cleaning the overflow tube it smelled like cat urine! Got out the black light and sure enough, the cat's been peeing/spraying into the overflow! I do believe that's the problem we've been having. Put a few mouse traps on top of the aquarium and tonight while watching a movie...bam, bam bam and crash! The cat jumped on top of the canopy to get warm from the lighting and he hit all three mouse traps. I don't think I've ever seen such a comotion!
I hope he learned from that!

 

[xxvietxjustinxx]

Ouch, i feel bad for ur cat!=X Cat abuse ahhaah im j/m

 

[randy 12]

My husband thought it was pretty funny! The cat and him have never really gotten along. They seem to irritate and torture each other...back and forth...back and forth. Maybe this was the cat's way of torturing my husband! After all the reef tank is his and mine is the FOWLR.

 

[fshhub]

here kitty kitty kitty
hehehehe, should have just put one int the over flow, that would have gotten his attention(right were he cont wanna get snapped)
MEORRRRRW!
JUST THINK OF THOSE BANGS!
hehehehehehe

 

[javajoe]

These make good cat toys-- i mean uh, deterents as well!
Cat toy--- uh, i mean deterent

 

[fshhub]

my cat would love that one, j/k

 

[javajoe]

Here kitty... kitty... kitty....
It's a fun phone to lend to your friend too-- "Hey, Can I borrow your cell phone?"

 

[richard rendos]

I had some advice for your algae problem due to cat urine, but after seeing that you would set mouse traps on your cat....that is totally f'ed up. Sorry, no advice other than be careful who you tell that story to...ASPCA would love to take your cat and give it to a family that wouldn't abuse it.

 

[michelle13]

Abuse??? Give me a break. LOL

 

[azonic]

michelle: You dont consider setting 3 MOUSE traps on a cat to be abuse? That sounds like something a bunch of little menace kids would do just for shits and giggles.

 

[javajoe]

The mouse traps wouldn't actually snap on the cat- they would just scare him, as when the cat jumps up, the vibration alone would set off the traps....
I would not consider that abuse...
My suggestion however, would definately fall under the 'abuse' category, but i was only joking.....

 

[tigerlover]

If I did that to my kitty, she would sulk around for years. If she could talk she would say, (sniffle), "Do you remember 8 years ago when you put those mouse traps on the tank, I felt so abused."
P.S. if she didn't go near them, she'd still hate them, my fat cat cuddles mice, contradictory to her nature.

 

[randy 12]

No, the traps didn't snap on him, we set them on top of the canopy, far enough away from where he jumps up and lands. The vibration of him jumping up there set the traps off. All 3 traps were still on top of the canopy and not a one touched him! Believe me, I wouldn't let me husband do anything abusive too him. I still love him even though he peed in the aquarium.
Oh, and he doesn't even get close to the aquarium now!

 

[wamp]

This is what he will look like..

 

[foulbrew]

Michelle, I'll second that...
Abuse... give me a break!

 

[fishkiller]

ABUSE?!?! WOW!!! And you call yourself a fish lover? If my cat pissed in my tank, I would probably not have a cat anymore. They pee on my clothes, on my floor, even on the mail on the KITCHEN TABLE, but NOT in my tank- BAD BAD BAD KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOM!! MMMEEEOOOORRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol..... Richard, you need to talk to a different message board if you are that concerned for cats... And I'm sure your house smells lovely, seeing that you probably never would do anything about them peeing on everything.. PLEASE!!! Give me a break!

 

[fishkiller]

PS- Randy- That's the funniest damn thing I think I have ever heard. When the cat got the habit of jumping up on the hood of my tank, I just removed the hood one day. ok, THAT was the fuuniest thing I've ever seen.

 

[phoenixrising]

My house cat recently decided he was too good to use a cat box and made the mistake of tinkling on my freshly washed Carhartt which had fallen off its hook (as well as other various assorted places). Of course I didn't know what had happened and picked the coat up off the floor to go back outside and had cat pee running down the center of my back! Daggone cat made himself into a barn cat that day! My 3 barn cats are less than ideally thrilled to have this formerly pampered feline with an aristocratic attitude in their midst and remind him regularly what the NEW pecking order is.

 

[wamp]

Richard, you need to talk to a different message board if you are that concerned for cats... And I'm sure your house smells lovely, seeing that you probably never would do anything about them peeing on everything.. PLEASE!!! Give me a break!
I agree with Richard on this one... I would never do that to a cat or an other animal for that matter... Not even a mouse! But thats me. On the other hand, I would place them gently upside down and when he stepped on it, it would snap but not have a chance at snapping on him.
No matter how you cut it. They were not designed for cats so they are cruel and unusual.
I have 3 cats. They pee in a litter box.. Where do yours pee?

 

[snakes'n'fish]

My oldest cat use to like to sleep on the hood of my old oscar tank, there where 2 8 inch oscars in the tank. One day she was sort of batting at the surface of the water, the big male oscar came up grabbed her paw and pulled he face first into the tank. She has never sat on an aqurium since. Good FishY !!