Fish x2

We got fish for our tank today, after a week or two of it running on empty. Michael said that the tank looks good empty (which it does, thanks to the plants) but we should at least try keeping some fish. We got 5 zebra danios to start, we'll see how they do. The largest one is named Fred, the smaller ones are Danny. We did not let our kids name them since it is highly likely that at least one of them will die in the next few weeks, since we have no idea what we are doing beyond reading the manual for the tank.

Since it is Sunday, here is a religious fish song for all of you (to be sung to the tune of "And they'll know we are Christians by our love"). In case you are wondering, we do not have Jesus fish on our cars =).

There are fish on our Hondas, there are fish on our Fords
There are fish on our cars to show we're driving for the Lord
And they'll know God has blessed us by the cars we can afford,
And they'll know we are Christians by the fish on our cars,
Yess they'll know we are Christians by our fish.

---Michael and Julie

Update: I have since been informed that our fish _do_ have names, but they are changing too quickly for me to keep track of them. Within 5 minutes all but Fred had swum up to the top pool. Right now three are swimming around together in the top pool, Fred is moping around the bottom, and the little one can't quite swim to the top tank, but doesn't want to hang around with Fred.

Additional update: Well, Fred is Dead. Eleanor handled it remarkably well, considering that it is her first official pet death. We threw the body out into the butterfly bushes, and told her that Fred would decompose and become part of the dirt that helps feed the butterflies, and she seemed content (especially when we told her we would get another fish to replace Fred).