Problem with dog hairs!!

[Kimdive]

OK, not your normal post I think!

Does anyone have any solutions regarding stopping dog hair getting into fish tanks?

I have 2 long haired white dogs and their hair is continually getting into my fish tank. We do not use chemicals on the dogs though, so that's not a problem, it's just the visual side of things.

I don't use a hood and I don't want to start using one.

Anyone have the same problem or any solutions?

 

[username in use]

do you brush your dogs every day with one of those "hair pullers" that they make for dogs. It gets all the loose hair off, and they really like it.

 

[Big Boy69]

I've seen my LPS eating it already. I have a short haired white dog and see hair in the tank ever now and then.

 

[Kimdive]

Whats a 'hair puller' for dogs? I've never seen them, mind you I'm not in the states, so we don't get so many gadgets here!

 

[kev apsley]

don't feel bad I have 12 cats and 3 dogs so I always have hair floating on the surface of my tank or in the water column. I use a pair of tweezers to pull out whatever I see floating on the surface and do regular WC's to suck out and stragglers, it stinks but that is the price for having an open topped tank

 

[dean1977]

if you blast the water coulmn with air bubles they might float to the top for easy removal.

 

[faze07hd]

The best way to stop that from happening would be to go to walmart in the mens cosmetics section and pick you up some WAHL clippers....

Give them dogs a crew cut!!!!

 

[DankReefer]

these "dog hair pullers" someone mentioned work really well. I assume they were talking about a Furminator. You should be able to find a generic one for around $20 or so, the furminators can get kinda pricey. We sell them at the pet shop i work at, and I haven't gotten any complaints on them.

 

[Kimdive]

But what are these hair pullers? Electric?

And no I would never shave my dogs LOL.

Thanks for all the input guy's.

 

[Reefer08]

Filter sock? That should catch all the hair the gets drained into the sump.

Oh and brush your dogs hair, its summer time they're shedding...

 

[Kimdive]

Every day I brush them! If you saw them you would understand. The female dog is just 1 ball of fluff.

That's a nice idea about the filter sock, but the hair's don't really get past the netting on the out flow pipe, they just get stuck in the corals :-(

 

[pwoller]

I think they call them shedding brushes.