Fishies!
Sylvantechie and I purchased a 25 gallon aquarium on Saturday, along with some aquatic plants and an embarrassing number of rocks. Sylvantechie did nearly all of the work of putting it together that night, as my arms aren't really long enough to comfortably reach the bottom of the tank. We were going to wait until next weekend to get fish at the Swank Petstore in the big town to the south, but then we got all impatient and bought a few wee fishies at the local less swank petstore. While the tank is going through the initial nitrogen cycle (a process that can take 6-8 weeks), we just have a few small fishies (3 zebra danios tentatively named "daryl, daryl and daryl" and two Von Rio Tetras). But then later we can add more. Weeee! Fishies!