Liam got a fish for his birthday. A betta. I was always a little worried about it because it wasn’t very active at all. Just about every day we had to tap the tank to make sure it was still breathing. Well, it died on Saturday. But I was so used to it being perfectly still in weird positions, I didn’t think anything of it. In fact, I actually showed it to my cousin and we laughed about the ridiculous position it was in. I didn’t realize it was dead until Sunday night when it was in the same position. I told Liam about it on Monday and we buried it outside. When I told him, he got a real sad look on his face and said, “But who’s gonna watch me when I’m sleep?” It was so sad. So I told him we’d go get another fish that night.

So we went to Wal-Mart, but we saw a 1-gallon aquarium kit was only $10. So we thought maybe we’d get that (as opposed to the fishbowl) and a couple of small fish instead of just one. The employee informed us that a tank has to be set up for at least 24 hours before you can introduce fish to it, though. So we got the aquarium and would go back the next day for fish.

Instead of going back to Wal-Mart, though, we went to Houma to Petsmart for a bigger selection. Some scraggly-haired, baggy-pantsed kid showed up to help us and I groaned. But let me tell you, that kid knew his stuff. He helped us pick out a couple of small fish that would live together nicely, a Mickey Mouse Platy and an X-Ray Tetra. We got a couple of Ghost Shrimp to help keep the tank clean. I’ll post a photo of the aquarium as soon as I take one.