Eliana has a love for animals. In March, she started researching fish and learning about how to set up and maintain an aquarium. She also has built up some funds from a babysitting gig she does, so after a bit of planning, off to PetSmart we went.
She ended up getting a 5.5 gallon tank. She bought the gravel and also several underwater plants.
This tank was made "official" with a filter, themometer and heater for her tropical fish that were soon to come.
It is now all set up! It just needs several days to rest, according to Eliana, so that the water can get conditioned properly.
We then headed off to Petco. However, once we got there, they were ALL sold out of fish. (And also birds, rodents, reptiles, ferrets--everything! Apparently we were not the only ones looking for new pets during quarantine.)
She then called Petsmart and found out when their shipments usually came in (Thursday.) And so on that day, off we went again. She ended up getting a betta fish and also three little shrimp, called ghost shrimp.
The betta has a pinkish color but is mostly all white. His name was, at first, Zoomy, because he zoomed around the tank when he was first put in. And maybe also because the kids have to do Zoom calls for school and they have "zoom" in their brains. But then they started calling his Swishy...which is the name of the previous fish they had.
The ghost shrimp are really cute and fun to watch. They hang around the bottom and try to find scraps of food that the fish didn't get. They are also hard to spot as they are almost the same color as the gravel and are only 1/2 an inch long.
And Eliana also got three fish called zebra danios. They are tiny little things, about an inch long and dart around like crazy.
Getting to feed the fish is a treat for everyone and many times, the kids can be found doing this...fish watching.
