Tank life

We cannot have most pets, despite my children's pleading. I am allergic to most animals, and also they are not aloud. So we do what we can. Let me introduce you
to our tank lifes...

Frog. S/he was a present for Christmas in 2005. Frog has out lived 3 betas and 17 misc fish. S/he spends his/her time mainly at the bottom of our 10 gallon tank and periodically chases fish around. S/he is a nice frog. We have never really officially named him/her, though one time when my step grandparents were babysitting him/her, S-gramps named him/her Freddy the Frog. While it is catchy, it has never stuck. As we've been shopping around for fish, many pet stores have been surprised and almost down right shocked that s/he is still alive. Apparently these types of frogs are very difficult to keep alive, and don't usually live longer then 6 months. Interesting. We have noticed that this frog LOVES having the tank to his/her self. He goes crazy and swims everywhere. It's really funny!!


A few months ago we decided we needed to fill our tank with many goldfish. Why? Who knows. So off to Wal Mart the girls and I pranced. We picked out 12 goldfish, in hopes that 5 or 6 of them would live. Excitedly, the girls picked out 'their fish'. Within four days all but one had died... Sam's fish named Whitey... and that one looked on the verge of death. So Pernell went and picked up a few more fish. Those few more died. And Whitey... still, barely alive. So I went to Petsmart and had our water checked (it was perfect!) and picked up some different fish. I picked up a few mollies and some algae eaters. The associate at Petsmart told me that I should wait till Whitey the goldfish was dead, because they are gross. My (awful!) intentions were to go and just flush that $0.o8 goldfish and put it out of it's misery. When it came down to it, I just couldn't, after all, it looked like it was about to die anytime. Interestingly enough, while the mollies all died, that one Whitey goldfish.... did not. And weirdly enough... it was getting bigger. In one last fish attempt, I went to Walmart again, decided that their fish were better, and bought 5 more gold fish. All but two of that batch died. So I think we have our fish family. One now-monstrous fish Whitey,two fish unnamed, two unnamed algae eaters and a frog.
So introducing... Whitey the Goldfish. He's huge. HUGE!! He is about four times the size he was 5 months ago. HUGE. He enjoys swimming around and eating. So pass the time he likes to eat rocks and spit them out, especially the rocks that are holding down items, such as fake plant life (see picture).


School starts back up for both Pernell and I today. Yippey!! More to come... it will be good.