Little Fishy

Sunday we moved a major item... The goldfish. We have a 55 gallon tank with one plecostomus, Rover, and two fantail goldfish, Spot and Tangelo. We used to have more but they have since departed. They have sacrificed themselves to fertilize our corn plant and money tree, which are growing nicely. We will never forget Blackie, Petie, Tiger, Simba, Santa's Little Helper

So Sunday afternoon be begin our task. In order to move the tank, we have to clean it, empty it, take out the fish, dismantle everything, load it all into the car, drive it to the house, unload the stand, unload the tank, fill it with water, install the filter, heater, lights, stabilize the temperature, and float the fish in the container to acclimate them to the water before letting them out into the tank. Start to finish was about 6-7 hours, including traveling time... although we did need to take a detour.

The heater was broken. We had to buy a new one. By the time we got to Walmart, it was about 8:15 pm. After being blind and having to ask the guy where to find the heaters, we went to stand in line. Oooh... the self checkout is empty. We go there and someone cancelled their purchase and walked away without getting it cleared. It kept saying, "Please wait for assistance." The lady was refilling the coins in one station and the other two had customers at it. It took her sooo long. We just ended up using a different station. We wanted to price check Petsmart which we imagined would close at 9 pm and by the time we got out of Walmart it was 8:45 pm. We drove by and it was closed. I guess we're using this one.

We get home and fill it and start setting up the filter and stuff. Uhh... Chris, where's the new filters? WHAT??? NO MORE?!??!?? Uh oh. What time does Walmart close? *sigh* We don't want to drive back and make the fish suffer in the tiny bucket any longer than we have to. So we used the smaller filters for the 29 gallon tank temporarily. It works okay but we'll get the right size for them.

Everything else went okay. We let them acclimate and put them back in. They seemed okay yesterday. We'll get them some new friends soon.

The gourami in the smaller tank will end up in the guest room but the room's not ready yet. We need another layer of joint compound around the used-to-be door and then some texture and paint. Maybe by the weekend that part will be done. Then install baseboards and paint the closet and put the closet door back on and then we can move stuff into the room. Slowly.

Oh yeah, the computer and internet is up and running too. Good job, Chris!