New Fish Tank

We decided to buy a fish tank while Janel's parents were in town. They have a fish tank at home that Frank has been working on for the past year or so, and we thought it would be fun and useful to pick one up while they were here. It really looks nice in our living room :).


We originally were planning on getting something small ... maybe 18 or 20 gallons. Then we read that it is a lot easier to have a larger tank if you don't know what you are doing -- the large amount of water makes it more difficult to screw things up. We can also get more fish that way. We decided to get a setup like what Janel's dad has, which is the Eclipse System. Of all the places that we went to, only one PetSmart had one of them in stock (not including little 12g or less tanks) ... and that was a 37g tank. So, we decided to go for it.


Here is a picture of the tank in the living room:





We currently have two platies -- one "Micky-Mouse" Red Platy and a Sunburst Platy. We will be adding maybe 15 more fresh-water tropical fish at about 2-3 fish per week, so it will take a while until the tank fills up. We are also using a mixture of fake and live plants.


Here is a zoomed in picture of the tank where you can see the two fish swimming with each other. Platies are not always schooling fish, but these two seem to have taken a liking to each other.





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