Today was Martin’s b-day and I decided to get him an aquarium for his present. Actually, two years ago I promised him a terrarium when he got back from overseas but with moving and everything, we never got around to it. See, he had a little gecko friend over there he named George.  So, I went to pick up the aquarium/terrarium and went to the petstore afterwards to see what kind of crawly things we could get. They had only one gecko ($60), one chameleon (er, no thanks, those things weird me out more than a gecko!) and some crabs. Crabs were pretty cheap but - they require a lot of spraying and humid environment so I decided to wait and see what Martin wanted. So today we went to the petstore here and they didn’t have geckos because apparantely the village (not ours, the one we went to go) has a by-law against lizards. They are having it appealed and will have them but - we ended up deciding on fish. Then we had to decide on tropical or gold-fish. We walked out with goldfish

It’s a small tank and the 8 little fishies are being named as we speak. So far we have the three gray fishes named Snap, Crackle and Pop.  One also has a coloured mark on the forehead that looks like a mohawk so we are calling them Mohawk. Heh. That leaves four more to be named! Heh. The guy at the petstore said we can bring these ones back in a month or two to get the fancier fish we originally wanted. However, we’re big sucks and will grow to like these ones… like, they already have names, you know? hehe….

Bonne fête Martin!

Posted on March 29th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Birthday!, Fishies!