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In another moment of spontaneous purchases - Chicky and I got a fish tank! How did this come about? Well - instead of enjoying the Canada Day celebrations we went to the mall in search of a honeymoon package. Feeling disappointed about not finding somewhere to travel to - we headed out to Petcetera to look at pets that we can't have. :-)

Walking around the store we figured if we ever get a pet - it'd have to be fish because Chicky's parents don't like animals. There goes the doggie dreams if we live with the parents. Walking back and forth for 1/2 hour, we talked about getting a tank and setting it up in Chicky's room. Both of us were hesitant but finally we said "let's just do it!" So we did. We got home with our purchases and Chicky's mom said that she knows a friend who could give us a tank for free. Chaching! That's perfect. So at 8pm we head out to Richmond to pick up the tank. Kay - free isn't always "free". The tank was used for salt water fish in the past and was heavily calcified. Chicky and I spent most of the night washing and scraping it. We finally gave up and put our stuff in. We're in it for the instant gratification. We had wanted to buy fish at Petcetera but they wouldn't let us. They wanted us to have the tank functional for 3 days before introducing fish. Boo to them! We got an underwater plant instead. :-) It's no fun having an empty tank. I think we'll go to a pet store during the week to get something. We want it to be a freshwater tank so maybe goldfish or koi?! There are still not enough supplies though. We had originally boughten a 10 gallon tank from Petcetera but was given a 20 gallon tank from the friend. So we don't have enough gravel or the correct gravel for live plants on top of that. I just hope we don't end up killing everything in the tank at the end of this little experiment.