Emma and I spent some time Sunday morning refreshing our fish tank. We have a 29-high in our living room which has been largely neglected over the past few months, causing it to be covered in algae. Sunday morning we cleaned the glass, siphoned out as much of the crud as we could from the gravel, replaced much of the water, and bought some new fish.

Refreshed Fish Tank

We bought a whole mess of “tropical community” fish which should play together nicely. Although the quality of the above picture isn’t great (clearly my cellphone camera needs better lighting than what we have in the house), you can see some of the new lovelies. We got a few different kinds of mollies (the ones with the oversized bellies, red swordtails and white lyretails), tuxedo guppies, red platys, a half dozen zebra danios, and about six neon tetras. And two black snails. And some live plants. And…

I’m really happy that we did this. I spent about an hour on Sunday afternoon sitting in the recliner, just watching the fish swim around. It was wonderfully peaceful and relaxing.