Our Newest Family Member

Today we picked up our newest member of our family this cute little box turtle.  A co-worker of mine has several pet box turtles that she keeps in her backyard.  Well apparently at least one was a female and while working in her garden she found 8-9 babies.  She let us have one and we brought it home today.  It's tiny!  It's about the size of a quarter.  This is the smallest food dish I could find.

My brother gave us a 40 gallon tank (3ft long) and we picked up the rest of the supplies on Saturday.  Then today we brought the turtle home.  It likes to burrow in the wood chips making it difficult to find to show the kids.  Chloe has named it "Happy" and Connor has named it "Mr. Slow."  The gender cannot be determined until it is significantly older, so we're calling it a boy.  He'll stay relatively small so his giant tank will be plenty big enough for him. 

New Pets coming soon!

Since our last pet...my rat Smokey died about a month ago we have thought that we need another pet around the house. We need something that lasts awhile, but when it dies you don't feel bad. So we decided on fish. Now my brother just so happens to be totally into fish. He has a 210 gallon salt water tank in my parents' garage. My dad is also into fish. He usually goes and sits all weekend in water waiting for some to bite his bait, but he also has a 60 gallon fresh water tank in his office as well as a much smaller salt water tank.

Now my totally cool and wonderful brother has been selling his saltwater stuff and some of his freshwater stuff too. He has an extra 40 gallon tank and stand that I've been eyeing the last couple of weeks. I had asked my mom about possibly staining the stand a darker color and she said she had the equipment to do it, if my brother sold me the stand and tank. A couple days ago I asked my brother if he was selling the tank and stand and he said he was. I asked him if I could buy it and he said I could have it for free. He also went through his stuff and found some freshwater sand, a filter and a few other things that I could have. When I lived there I had a 10 gallon freshwater tank in my bathroom. It had the coolest things in it and we couldn't find the rocks that I had, but nobody remembers throwing them away, so perhaps we'll find them.

So anyways we're getting fishies! Petco has a great sale on fish until June 22nd, so sometime before then we'll have it all set up and ready. I'm excited! We'll post pictures when it is all set up and ready.