Ever since last November, Jes has been back on the fish train.  I haven’t seen him this obsessed over aquatic stuff since college and it’s very nostalgic for me to be taking frequent trips to different fish stores with him again.  The only difference now is that we have an almost-3-year-old in tow too.  Luckily, she likes fish and enjoys helping her dad feed them every day.  What’s also different is the fact that the internet now exists along with Amazon Prime, which makes researching and buying stuff a lot easier and more convenient.  I remember when we used to spend hours in a fish store talking to the guys that work there to get more information on how to do stuff and take care of certain fish and plants.  We don’t have that kind of time and freedom anymore so we’re lucky that technology has advanced to a point where we can be in and out of a store in just 30 minutes.

So here’s an update.  My last update was in December 2014 and we had two tanks, two adult platys, and about 20 baby fish.  Well, now we have three tanks with another that just arrived in the mail this evening.  We also have the two original platys that starting this whole thing and only 2 of the baby fish.

Some had died and we gave back about 6 to Petco a few weeks ago.  Here they are in one of the tanks in the store just kickin’ it and waiting for someone to buy them.

Our original 2.5-gallon tank currently has no light (the bulb just burned out) and houses some live plants and two ghost shrimp that have eggs in their bellies just ready to hatch any day now.  They’re see-through and pretty gross to me.  Jes is hoping to have a whole army of shrimp soon.  I don’t have a photo of this tank at the moment.  It also sits in our bedroom now.

3/15/15

Here is our 2nd tank, a 12-gallon.  It’s the biggest one so far and sits in our entry-way. It now has more live plants, a new light, landscaping anchored by a driftwood, a posse of 8 dwarf corydoras, 2 amano shrimps, 2 snails, 2 of the remaining baby platys, and a blue baby betta.  I have to date the photos because the tanks seem to change just about every other day.

3/15/15

The 3rd tank is a 5-gallon narrow tank that now houses the two adult platys, a snail, and 3 red cherry shrimp.  It’s anchored by a fancy rock that we bought in Japantown.  Jes is growing some live grass in there too but waiting on a brighter light that won’t be shipped until May.

Our 4th tank was shipped today and it’s 7-gallon cube that will have a dwarf puffer that we ordered.  It’s supposed to arrive on Thursday at Petco if the girl got around to ordering it for us.  Other than that, I don’t really know what the plan is for that one.  It’s still empty on the floor of the foyer in a box.

3/21/15

Lately, instead of seeing Jes in front of the computer playing video games, he’s sitting in front of one of the tanks staring, searching for snails and shrimp, or on his iPad reading up on what to do next.  KK also looks forward to feeding the fish every night and when Jes comes home from work she runs up to him and asks “can we feed the fish now?”  It’s very cute to watch their daily routine of picking out which food their going to feed them and then watching the fish eat.

One day, one of his tanks will look somewhat like this one that we saw at an exhibit.  It takes lots of time, lots of patience, and a modest fish budget to get it right but it will be worth all the effort if/when it’s done.