Valenties Day

Well thanks to Brittany for watching the kids Jeff and I were able to go out for dinner and a movie on Monday night. Dinner was very nice and we got to go see Coraline. Very fun visually (by the way not a young kids show) but a rather strange movie. It was fun though, so thanks honey and Happy Valentines day!

Just a little funny update. The other day after returning home from somewhere I looked in the betta tank and found my crab devouring one of my frogs. Since I wasn't sure if the frog had died on it's own I thought I will just keep an eye on it and see what happens. Well sure enough the next day one of the other frogs was being eaten. So I transfered the last frog to the bigger tank and I am now waiting to see what the crab will do now to tell if I am going to keep him or not. Poor Reed was quite tramatized by brutal killing spree it went on. The poor frogs...

Life in color

My camera card has been getting quite full so I haven't been taking as many pictures. So here are some updates with pictures. Here are the kids building a snowman after one of the storms. Here also are pictures of my crab and frog and shrimp. Lets play the look & find game. See if you can see the shrimp and the betta in the picture with the frog(whom I caught taking a swim up to the top for a breath of air) .

Here also is a short video of my Betta tank so you can see how I decorated it. I don't remember if I put it on here before. In this tank I have 3 Cherry shrimp, which are small 1 inch red shrimp, and 2 Ghost shrimp, which are white and about 1 1/2 inches, along with 3 Afircan Dwarf Frogs, which only get about 2 inches. Then of course 2 Bettas, one red and one blue. The tank is split in two so the Bettas don't fight and the frogs and shrimp can go between the two of them in the back there is a space big enough for them to squeeze though. The brown vine on the right side is for the crab to crawl up and get air. And on the bottom is a video of the latest boxing match between Reed and Marian. Marain wanted to wear daddy's gloves instead of Reeds, and they were too heavy for her to keep control of her hands.

My Crab!

We just added a red clawed crab to my betta tank. My red betta and frog in there can't figure out just what it is, though they are keeping their distance. It is fun to watch it crawl all over the tank! My shrimp all moved over to the other side of the tank, and my frogs move back and forth, we'll see how things go. Reed was very excited to get him. "We get a crab just like at Grandma's" (my mom has two in her tank).

Fish tank

Well we had a small fish emergency the other day. About 7 in the morning I had a panic thinking someone was in the house because I heard a crash. I waited to hear anything else and I didn't so I thought it must have been one of the kids toys falling, for some odd reason. Then as I sent Jeff off to work about an hour later I glanced over at my 10 gallon fish tank and I noticed the water level was down about an inch. So I got to work getting ready to head to Walmart and picked up a new 10 gallon (I was really tempted to upgrade to another 16 but they were too expensive :o) Anyway after I got home I changed the tanks over and after I got most of the water out of the old one I noticed the huge crack in the back. That had been the noise I had heard ealier. So now I have my fish and shrimp and frogs in a new tank :o) I hope this one lasts longer :o)