Mr. Fish gets a new home

Derek & I went on a date tonight! Yes, a real date- dinner and a movie. Who knew that it now costs $9.50 for 1 ticket to a movie?!? However, we did get a 1/2 price appetizer and 1 entree free at dinner, so it all evened out.

But I digress.

So after dinner, we decided to hit up PetSmart. We'd been talking about getting Mr. Finn Fish (our red-cap Oranda goldfish) a new home. His is a bit small, and it's just a plastic carrying tank that holds less than 1 gallon of water. He has been a good fish, and deserves a new home. We look around at some of the crazy, 300-gallon fish tanks that are seriously $400 for JUST THE TANK, and then move on to the cheap aisle. We find it! It's a 10-gallon tank, and it came with everything- de-chlor drops, stress coat, filter, hood w/light, and food- for just under $40. Amazing. So we load it up, grab a 10-pound bag of gravel and a new fishy toy (cave w/lots of holes and cool coral designs), and get out of there for under $60. So cool.

We see the movie (Taken- great action, good plot, but the ending fell really flat- like someone tripped it while it was sprinting to the finish line and it just died on the spot), then head home to set up said tank. This took much work- rinsing in the bathtub upstairs, washing all the gravel by hand, filling the tank with the gravel, filling the tank with water, setting up the filter, hood w/light, and all other assorted paraphenalia. Now time for the moment of truth- we plug it in and- it works! The filter quietly filters (good...) and the light lights (even better...). Now we just have to let the filter run for 48 hours to make sure it works well and then Mr. Fish is going to move.

The entire time we were setting this up, however, he very nervously swam back and forth on one side of his little tank watching us. I believe that he thinks we are getting new fish. He will be reassured when we transfer him on Monday, but until then, he will just be nervous. Thank goodness he only has a 3-second memory. "Oh what's that? For new fish? ........... "Oh what's that? For new fish? ........." You get the idea.

Think good thoughts for Mr. Fish when he moves! :)


.....I really need a dog.....