Feeding Fish

I got a shipment of fish today. Live fish. The kind you put in an aquarium and watch swim around.

We sometimes mail order fish because we can't buy them around Des Moines. We keep discus fish, which have special water requirements, and not enough other people in the area are crazy enough to keep them. The local pet stores won't stock them, so we have to mail order them.

Being shipped through the mail is hard on a fish. They usually do okay at home, but it's extremely important to provide a low-stress environment for a day or two. Crystal clear water. No aggressive fish to compete with. Not even aquarium lights shining into the tank.

I unpacked the fish, acclimated them, and let them go in the tank. As I was busy with that, Abbie was busy unpacking the fish food we also had shipped. At some point this afternoon, she took an entire container of fish food and dumped it in the tank.

So much for crystal clear water.