Well, it's been awhile since I updated. Quite a bit has happened since then. School has just been a train wreck for me. I ended up dropping 3 classes and I'm still stressed with the work load (probably because my motivation is at like -20). But this is a pet blog and you probably don't care much about my school rants. :P
Cherry's been her normal self. Not much new with her. She's been having a blast with our new arrivals and she's becoming a lot more outgoing with strangers in the house. In the past few months we've had a few new employees and also some construction going on. With all that, both her and Woody are being more social. Well in Woody's case becoming less noisy about it.
Ah yes, so normal.
"You can't see me!"
This is seriously how she sleeps during the day.
That's cool. I didn't want to study anyway.
We made her a new scratching post. So far this was the only day she sat on it.
"Get me a tuna sandwich. Hold the bread."
"What do you mean this isn't a new bed?"
Woody's been good too. He's been helping me out with the wood stacking. I am a little worried about him though. I found a lump under his front leg last week. He's not acting weird and it doesn't seem to hurt him. The lump is also movable. I'm thinking it's a cyst. Hopefully we can get him to the vet this week to get it checked out.
So helpful with the gardening.
"PLEASE LET ME BE NEXT TO YOU!"
So helpful...
Oh look there was a mouse nest.
Now I've been mentioning some new arrivals. As much as I'd love to say it's a bunch of kittens, I just can't. They're fish. I'm a little ashamed at how this whole fish thing started, but I've learned from it so I'll share what happened. I decided I wanted a fish again. I did some research and discovered the nitrogen cycle. I'd had fish before, but no one ever told me about cycling tanks. This is probably because my dad believes it to be BS, but that's another story. So I set my tank up and tried doing a fishless cycle. I really didn't have any sort of grasp on how to cycle. I tried the adding fish food thing and definitely did it wrong. After a month, I decided to get a snail and an otocinclus.
Meet Houdini..
...and Frederick.
These guys are still alive. Houdini had some issues with the water I was originally using, but that's been resolved now.
And after 2 weeks of having these guys I decided to get some guppies. I bought 4 male guppies. Their names were Dominic, Francis, Charles, and Frankenstein. One died the next day and within 2 days, they all were dead. Houdini and Frederick were still alive though (this was still before the water source change). I was sure it was because of the cycling. My dad ended up taking the dead fish back and getting me four more. I really didn't want any more, but he doesn't believe in cycling, so he went and got them. One died that night, but the other three are still alive now. These guys are way more alert and fun. They explore and they like to come up to you. Their names are Bloo, Yellow, and Orange. I originally wasn't going to name them until they lived a week and was just calling them by their colors, but the names stuck. Orange is my favorite. Bloo and Yellow like to hang out together.
We ended having a bought of ich with them. Bloo had it first and then Yellow. Orange didn't have it until the very end of treatment. Everybody's healthy now.
So the tank is almost done cycling. I now have someone helping me with that. I also have a better grasp of cycling and other fish care. I feel really bad about the five fish dying, but I promise I'm not going to let any more die like that.
Currently, I'm working on setting up a new tank. They are in a 10 gallon right now and I wanted to switch the gravel to sand. I had my dad order 10 lbs of sand using his Amazon Prime. Turns out it didn't count for free shipping, so he canceled it and went to Petco and bought me 20lbs of sand. Then they still shipped the other 10lbs. So I decided to use the 30lbs of sand and set up our 30 gallon tank. We already had a filter for one, so right now I'm waiting on the heater and the hood. I also order 25 plants which should be here this week. I'm doing a fishless cycle with this tank and then once it is cycled, I'm moving all fish into it. Once the 10 gallon is cycled I plan to get two more otos. I recently found out that they like to live in groups. After the fish are moved to the 30 gallon, I'm going to get 6 more guppies and quarantine them in the 10 gallon. After that's done I'm going to move them to the 30 gallon and get 6 more and repeat. My plan is end up with 15 male guppies, 3 otos, and a snail. I may leave the 10g set up and get something else, or I may just take it down and use it another time. Setting up this 30 gallon is using up a lot of my money.
Her favorite place to sit before I bought the hood. (No fish in it)
She likes to stick her paws in the water I leave out for heating up. One day she decided she would drop a bunch of things in it.
The 30 gallon in its current set up. The heater is an old one in there just to see what it'd do. There's also one lonely amazon sword in there.
