Tuesday, July 13, 2010

We have fish!

Elizabeth and Evan had a lot of fun at the pet store looking at all the fish as they normally do. This time, we'd actually come home with some. They spent the whole time in the car discussing names for the fish. Elizabeth picked out Lovepeace and Finley, and Evan's are Optimus Prime and Gantor. That does leave one more unnamed fish that Mommy or Daddy get to name, but we never actually got to that point of picking one.

After I got home from work, I checked the levels one last time. I put in enough ammonia yesterday to bring the levels up to 4.0 PPM, and took note that the nitrites were down to 0.25 PPM. This morning the levels were still pretty high, but by the time I got home from work they were all down again to what they were the day before. I did a 95% water change and headed to the pet store to pick up the first set of fish - 5 Platy.

I transferred the plant that was in the Frog tank over to the 46 gallon tank, and dropped Speedy the snail in there too.

The platy seemed to fit right in to their new surroundings. I took some time to acclimate them into the new tank by floating them for a bit and gradually adding my tank water into the bag that they came home in. Once they were in there for about a half-hour or so and had most of my tank water in there, Kim had better luck than I did netting them and releasing them into the tank.
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