Frog Update

No, the frogs aren't dead. And shame on any of you who assumed that's what my update would be. ;-) No...this post is about Erik.

For someone so reluctant to get two tiny little frogs, Erik is suddenly very gung ho on the whole fish ownership thing. We've had fish before - in fact, we had quite a large tank with some beautiful cichlids - but we always end up forgetting to change the filter cartridge, deciding we don't have the time or the desire to clean the tank as often as needed, etc. and choose to go back to being fishless. But after seeing how much Lillian loves to watch these silly frogs, he went out last night and bought a 5-gallon tank for them and will be adding some low-maintenance gold fish in the next couple days.

Now, I was perfectly happy with my little frogs that require a water change every two weeks, no filter/thermometer/light needed...basically, think about them once in a while and they're fine. But now we have a cute little tank with rocks that will need to be "vacuumed," filters that will need to be changed, and water that is quite a bit harder to replace (think 5 gallons vs. the maybe 1/2 gallon the frogs are in now). And who do you suppose will be doing all this work? Ummm, yeah...not Erik.

I guess I can't complain too much, though, since I entered into this willingly and even picked out the rock/plant combination to put in the tank so the poor things have somewhere to play if they get a hankering. But we're definitely going with the cheap gold fish so I don't feel as bad when my $15 fish has to be flushed.