Love THAT FISH PLACE!

When we first got into saltwater fish we visited this place often. It's about 2 hours away in Pennsylvania but so worth the trip. A week or so ago we decided to plan a family trip to Lancaster County and enjoy the scenery, food and shopping. As anticipated, plans changed so Ronnie and I ended up going alone. We got a late start with our first stop being our coffee house. Next up Hobby Lobby to pick up some things that had been on our list for a while then we arrived at our final destination....We picked up 3 fish, a feather duster, an anenome and some crabs.

The food is always great in this part of PA especially when it's a family owned restaurant. We decided on this one and it was just as expected - home cooked and yummy!With full bellies and dessert for later, we headed home. We got everything settled in the tank then off to bed.

Anyone agree that Lancaster County is full of great places to eat?!

"out of body" experience -

Have you ever had one of those 'out of body' experiences? Well this little guy did. This morning as I was moving from one room to the next I glanced down to see what I thought was a dead hermit crab. I found Ronnie and he agreed that the hermit crab had actually 'kicked the bucket'. As sad as it was, it appeared his shell may have gotten lodged between a couple of the rocks. Ronnie decided to take a stick and push the shell away only to discover that a whole new hermit crab was in the shell! Oh my! I was completely freaked out and just couldn't imagine. Thank goodness for "google" because it had all the answers. Our hermit crab actually molted. We read all about how it comes out of it's shell, sheds it's skeleton and moves on. We have brought many hermit crabs home from the beach, caged them up with a wet sponge and even purchased bigger shells for them to move into but not once did we ever find a whole skeleton in their cage. Wow, isn't it amazing? Have you ever wanted to just shed your body and start anew?! and now a whole new look.

I can dream we're there.....

As I mentioned in one of my last posts, Ronnie has been working on restoring our salt water tank. Everything is set-up now we are just waiting for it to cycle. It is beautiful! Yesterday he picked up three hermit crabs that have worked hard all day. The pictures came for the back and they have been installed! Now we can look at the tank and dream we're on St. John swimming and snorkeling in those exact waters! Hopefully tomorrow we can add a "nemo" then grow from there.

One Fish....Two Fish....Three Fish....Blue Fish

This past week has been a lot of trips to Walmart, PetsMart, Petco and Winchester Aquarium. Four years ago we set up a salt water aquarium however after a couple of years, a lot of hard work, many dead fish and frustration we decided to hang it up. It was one of my favorite things back then and we would spend hours just watching the fish. So...for Christmas I asked for it to be broken down and reassembled, this time reef free. Well, that one tank turned into let's see: Chase and Cierra each getting a tank, our bedroom tank being turned into salt water and another new one in my sewing room. And, the big one is just now under renovation :) and I'm actually ok with that. It has been a lot of fun getting everything needed for all the tanks. Chase and Cierra paid for all of their stuff with Christmas money and have done a good job taking care of their latest pets. Our bedroom tank has become my favorite with two yellow and two blue damsels, two hermit crabs, one peppermint shrimp, and one chocolate chip starfish. I love getting up each morning to them swimming around. Tonight was Kayden's first time seeing the fish and she loved them.

As we get finished, I'll be sure to share some pictures. I ordered poster size prints from Snapfish and we are using two of our St. John scenes for the background on our bigger tank. For now, I'll leave you with this...Isn't she just the best?!