{"id":944,"date":"2012-04-25T21:43:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T02:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=944"},"modified":"2012-04-25T21:43:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T02:43:42","slug":"our-fishtank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/04\/our-fishtank.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Fishtank"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be honest, I’m not sure I’ve ever written about our fishtank before. I know I’ve written several times about our fountain\/pond set up in the front yard of our current house.<\/a>\u00a0We have a 5 gallon tank<\/a> in our kitchen also.<\/p>\n

Jacob got his first fish around his 5th birthday. Small tanks with bettas and danios. Easy-to-care-for fish. We took the fishtank (sans fish) to Nebraska, and tried out some other fish — Glo-Fish danios<\/a> were popular with the boys but they seemed to not live for more than 3-4 months at a time, and cost twice as much as non-fluorescent danios.<\/p>\n

In Florida, we set up one more time, this time with fancy guppies<\/a>. We kept 3-4 guppies in the tank and they did quite well. We lost one of them after about 6 months, which seemed par for the course.<\/p>\n

About a year ago, we took on a blue gourami<\/a> from a friend who was moving. A BIG blue gourami who proceeded to eat the tails off two of the guppies…the ones with the prettiest, fanciest tails. Since they were apparently threats to him even though he was about 20x their sizes. A fish with no tail doesn’t last long.<\/p>\n

From May 2011 until April 2012, we had a small Endler’s guppy<\/a> (which had a very plain tail and therefore was allowed to live) and the blue gourami. They existed in very quiet harmony.<\/p>\n

The guppy is still with us, the blue gourami passed away at the beginning of this month.<\/p>\n

So we repopulated the fish tank with some smaller fish. And decided to replace the really old plastic plants and anchor-thingy tank decoration in the tank while we were at it.<\/p>\n

Zebra danios<\/a> have always done well with us…so we bought 3 of them. You want to get groups of three because they’re “community fish”, and are happiest in groups.<\/p>\n

We also chose a new kind of fish — new to us. “Mickey Mouse” platys<\/a>. These are also community fish — considering the boys’ obsession with Hidden Mickeys, these were PERFECT! The boys love them!<\/p>\n

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Here are two fo the Mickey Mouse platys. Aren't they cute? They're about the size of feeder goldfish.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A closeup of the tail. See the Hidden Mickey?<\/p><\/div>\n

While we were at it, we redecorated the tank to Post-Modern Bikini Bottom. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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You can see one of our zebra danios towards the top of the pineapple.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be honest, I’m not sure I’ve ever written about our fishtank before. I know I’ve written several times about our fountain\/pond set up in the front yard of our current house.\u00a0We have a 5 gallon tank in our kitchen also. Jacob got his first fish around his 5th birthday. Small tanks with bettas and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,89,155,227,224,226,154],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-fe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":549,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/04\/murderess.html","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":0},"title":"Murderess!","date":"26 April 11","format":false,"excerpt":"This is not the dead fish itself, but the calicos I killed looked VERY similar.Yeah. \u00a0That would be me. \u00a0I killed not one, but FOUR fish today.Back in December I mentioned the four 6\"+ beautiful koi who were living in our water feature in the front yard of our current\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"fish\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikesjournal.com\/June%202006\/Dead%20Fish.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":617,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/spawn-of-the-pond.html","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":1},"title":"Spawn of the Pond","date":"20 July 11","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I talked about bringing 3 tadpoles into the house as a mini-science lesson for the boys. \u00a0Those tadpoles spent the weekend in a glass mixing bowl while all of our visitors were here. \u00a0They swam around, eating fish food and leaving plenty of algae-green-colored droppings. \u00a0You could see\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"house\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UeIvwFAMjT8\/TidLqYcBnQI\/AAAAAAABYWE\/9xi8cMiw8LM\/s640\/IMG_5263.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":614,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/pandering-to-the-pond.html","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":2},"title":"Pandering to the Pond","date":"14 July 11","format":false,"excerpt":"This week I put away the \"kitchen laptop\" once and for all. \u00a0We got our weather webcam working again with Dave's old PC laptop that had been sitting in our front office unused since we moved here.With no kitchen laptop to occupy my time reformatting and partitioning, I've taken on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"fish\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GUT9zQS0JHA\/Th440jIpqoI\/AAAAAAABYAk\/00-tNOZd3EY\/s640\/IMG_9088.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":492,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/12\/getting-settled-in.html","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":3},"title":"Getting Settled In….","date":"09 December 10","format":false,"excerpt":"Howdy! \u00a0It's been a few days. \u00a0I'm sure you've ALL been at the edge of your seat, spending all your time wondering, \"How has Major Mom been with the move?\" I'm sure you've been up all night worrying about me, right?Of course you have ;-)So we had our stuff delivered\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"bird watching\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/TQBMznODFNI\/AAAAAAABOOE\/A28YtIGr77M\/s400\/55752_10150098659348428_503838427_7423479_1768554_o.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1277,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/08\/florida-discoveries-31-steves-farm-in-walnut-hill.html","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":4},"title":"Florida Discoveries 31: Steve’s Farm in Walnut Hill","date":"06 August 12","format":false,"excerpt":"This past Saturday the family headed to the northwest corner of Florida for some catfish fishing. \u00a0I know that sounds strange, hauling so far up north when we have amazing fishing all around us, right? 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