How to Kill Fleas without risking aquarium health?!?!

[Jozle]

I don't want to use chemicals that will get airborn and somehow get in my tank, killing my livestock.
I have fleas in my carpet next to my aquariums and they're not going away anytime soon. Has anyone ever dealt with fleas before without risking the aquarium health?

[HERM]

Alright, check this out it works great!

Take a cake pan and fill it about halfway with hot water and dish soap. Place a candle in the middle of the cake pan and light it. The fleas are attracted to the heat fall in the soapy water and die. Make multiple set ups and watch the fill up. Good luck

[LooksLater]

Alright, check this out it works great!

Take a cake pan and fill it about halfway with hot water and dish soap. Place a candle in the middle of the cake pan and light it. The fleas are attracted to the heat fall in the soapy water and die. Make multiple set ups and watch the fill up. Good luck

I've done this before, it will also work with a nightlight- set up your dish or bowl in front of the nightlight before lights out and leave it on overnight. It's the light they jump to, they're not real smart.
I've never been able to completely get rid of fleas this way, though- I have 3 cats in the house, 2 kids, 2 adults... there's just too much to feed on, I guess. It helped, but not enough for me.
So what I did was:
1) invest in the good flea spot treatment stuff for the cats, over the internet you can get decent deals. It's still expensive, but it's worth it.
2) vacuum like crazy, try to get as many out of the carpet (and where the cat/dog sleeps) as you can, as often as possible. Every day, or twice a day, do the whole house...and dump the bin outside as soon as you're done. If you have a bag vacuum, just park the sucker outside until you use it again, they will find a way out of the vacuum if you don't.
3) while you're waiting for the flea stuff from the vet or mail, bathe the animals in dawn dishsoap (it kills fleas), just the regular blue kind. Make sure you pick the fleas off their face that don't get hit by the soap.

I thought I almost had it under control this way, but not quite. Maybe it'll work for you.
If that doesn't work, you may just have to treat the carpet. Very VERY carefully. I have done it and was super careful to seal up the tanks with cling wrap, turn off filters, vacuum the stuff up like three times and changed the air filter etc...and managed not to kill anything thank goodness.
Good luck!

[Jozle]

Flea shampoo is not as effective as dawn dish soap?

[LooksLater]

Personally, I think dawn dishsoap is just AS effective, and less chemicals. It's what animal shelters use on kittens and puppies too young for the spot treatments.

[LooksLater]

Oh I guess I should say- I've volunteered at a couple of shelters, and worked as a dog/cat bather at a groomers. Dawn isn't a magic bullet, nothing really is, but it's pretty common knowledge at vets/groomers/shelters that dawn works...who knows why, but it does.

[HERM]

I have always bathed my dogs with dawn or joy. Then pissy wife off when I use her fancy conditioner on them. Lol

[LooksLater]

LOL, Herm- I bet it makes them nice and soft, and smell pretty too! We used pretty fancy conditioner at the groomers, also.

[Jozle]

Animal testing?

[LooksLater]

[JAYGEE]

A bowl of water with a few drops of lemon juice and dawn soap, put a night light near it and watch it work!

[CRUSHER]

use this stuff, all fleas will be gone in three day.. http://www.trifexis.com/about-parasi...ing-fleas.aspx
ive tried all the others you get from the vet they worked the first time but after a while they stop working Trifexis works great plus it kills internal worms that your dog gets from eating the fleas.

[CRUSHER]

http://www.trifexis.com/about-trifexis/default.aspx