Fish tank

So we have this salt water fish tank it's only a 20 gallon. 

We have been wanting to get our 55 gallon set up for some time now and I think it is really going to happen.

We went to Home Depot and bought the lumber we were going to need and went home and got to work.

We got it all built and put the tank on top

Added rocks Patrick got his sump all hooked up and we started to fill her up.

It was a little cloudy but thats typical. we ran tests and the water was perfect we just had to let it cycle for a week or so.

look at how clear it is :) 

We drip acclimated the fish to the new tanks water and put the babies in their new home.

We got a new clown fish or Nemo has the boys call them. I think we are going to have to call one of them Marlin.

World of Pets

Ok well it seems like it has been forever. I thought I would take a chance to just let you know whats going on at our house.

Geckos: Ok, so if you remember we have two leopard geckos. I got mine first and then a few weeks later Patrick got one. We never had any idea if they were boys or girls. Well I guess its been a couple of weeks now, and I was just sure that Patrick's gecko had lost it she was digging and making a huge mess out of the entire cage well one night while I was sleeping Patrick wakes me up (I was less than excited) to show me that we had EGGS yea I said it the Geckos have been mating. Well we figured it out Patrick's is a girl and my little gecko is boy. We have eggs and mama covered them in moss and stuff so now we are waiting to see if they hatch. I read something about 45-90 days so who knows we might have babies soon.

Fish: we have been having way to much fun with the Saltwater tank. Every time we go to the pet store its like we must get something new. It's a weakness what can I say.

Chocolate Chip Star Fish

Goby Firefish

Coral 

Anemone

We bought this rock and it has Coral on it score!

Mushroom

The boys just love the fish

Finding Nemo

Since Patrick set up the first fish tank a year or so ago he has been talking about doing a salt water tank. Well 2 weeks ago he cleaned out the 10 gallon tank filled it up with salt water and live rock then he made me stare at this cute little tank in the living room for a week and told me it wasn't ready for fish yet. Well that just took all my fun away. I am in this for the cute fish and Patrick likes all the science stuff with ph levels and other stuff, which I guess is good because one of us should probably care about the numbers.

Anyway over the weekend we stopped by a pet store just to look I might add. anyway it started that we were just getting hermit crabs, a little help to clean the tank and one critter at a time then patrick decided he could get a blue damsel well there was no way Gabe and I were gonna let him get fish and not us, so we got a clown fish and an anemone too.

Gabe who had been watching finding Nemo all weekend clearly calls our little clown fish Nemo. Patrick thinks we should call it Marlin or something not related to the movie at all. We all know that it's gonna be called Nemo that's how kids work and when Wesson sees it he's gonna think Nemo too.

When I told my dad he said he would name the cute little fish Crusty. Like Crusty the Clown on the Simpsons. Oh Daddy, anyway we haven't named any of the others yet but I'm sure that will come when all the boys are home this weekend.

Here is a picture of our new additions. The anemone is white so it's a little harder to find in the picture.

Our tank isn't done Patrick wants corals but that will come later.