Disaster

  Came home from seeing my poorly mother to a spotlessly clean house, other half on a mission. Anyway I discover her 'cleaning' the inside of the tank lid in situ with Mr muscle, cue shouting, and 2 90% water changes. Is there anything I can do to make sure I've saved my fish? They all seem fine, this was about 2 hours ago.

If your fish are still alive, good, the water changes did it.

For future reference, you can also put some carbon in the filter if you don't already use it. I don't have room in the filters in any of  my tanks but I do have a cheap internal filter which I use just for carbon. I put it in a mesh bag, being careful to fold any loos edges away from the impeller.

Another useful thing to have on standby is this rather expensive product. Just a layer in the filter will remove all sorts of nasties. It does come in different sizes.

Ah - that's my excuse for not doing the dusting! 

p.s. Have you also warned her about not using fly-spray?

Oops....didn't know about plug-ins
What about 'Feliway' plug-ins, for zenning out pudtats? I was considering one for my nutty cat, Archie....he's as mad as a box of frogs

Thanks for that, Col Do you think the feliway plug worked?
By the way, as I type, I have an old school joss stick on the go...quite often do when the old man is out..he's not good with stuff like that, you know, pot-pourri, air fresheners.....'specially those battery powered ones that puff out stuff when you're least expecting it.....and have just bent over and put your eyes right in the line of fire They can set off his asthma, so if I'm cross with him, I threaten to plug 'em all in
Anyway, chill and enjoy your joss stick, man

Hi Resa - I'm not sure if the Feliway works as it's impossible to do a placebo controlled, double-blind test on the kittykats. However; as Violet now will curl up on my lap fast asleep then I'll have to give them a thumbs-up!

Hi FC76 - that's a good story, and perhaps does show that it works.

A 'similar' story from a while back was that Fogarty tried to use some of our furniture for a scratching post and so I sprayed that bit of furniture with the Felliway spray - he never used it again.

Anyway, we seem to have gone a bit of topic now so I will shut up and go away!!!! 

Fc76

Yep.....we'll be getting thrown off and sent to 'Thinkcat'
Thanks though everyone,  that's been helpful.