Elliott: Year 4, Week 13 (November 13 - November 19, 2005) Lorelei: Week 30

Elliott: Year 4, Week 13 (November 13 - November 19, 2005)
Lorelei: Week 30

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our good morning girl
Lorelei is forever yearning for the camera
Score!

more sweet morning smiles
preparing for the big fish move.. we decided to disassemble our 55 gallon planted tank, and replace it with a 75 gallon tank.
Jess - kid magnet

Here is our new 150 gallon tank! Don't ask how we got it from the pet store to that location.. sigh!
filled and inhabited temporarily by the fish and plants from our 55 gallon tank (the dark corner exists because we only had a 4 foot light on it at the time)
Lorelei is serious about her bread crust

This was such a sweet moment - Elliott carried his chair over to keep Lorelei company and started playing footsies with her. They giggled and laughed..
Lorelei kindly modelling the silly hat a friend gave us
inspecting Tigger's tail

Quick, look! A clean house! Lorelei sits upon her throne
Oooh! nguh-ahhh!!
Finally, a warm day when it's not raining.. we ran out to rake a leaf pile

This is the best one I got before..
it started raining! Ugh!
Lorelei discovers her new favorite food - wet leaves!

lick lick..
Mmmm, this one tastes like...
Elliott and Orin go to town on Elliott's last pumpkin

Elliott, Pumpkin Engineer
building a tippy tall tower
Lorelei flirting with Abby, the baby of a penpal

typing Abby secret messages
Lorelei stuffed into her snow suit.. she barely fits - sigh!
Elliott volunteers to "help" us wash some new gravel for the 75 gallon tank

Mike smooths out the layers..
Lorelei, Champion hair puller, enjoys a quick jaunt on Dad's shoulders
Mmmmm, sweet red pepper!

The angelfish are so impressed with their new abode that they actually lay eggs! If you look closely, you can see some yellowish blobs on the broad leaf below the striped angelfish (I was having trouble focusing the camera) - unfortunately, some other inhabitant of the tank decided to gobble all the eggs up that night. We'll move them to the 75 and see if they'll spawn again. So exciting! (UPDATE! We did, and they did! Photos Here!
a picture of the tank as it is now. Still a work in progress. The tall grass-like plants that grew to the top and then bent over in the 55 gallon tank now look stubbly and short in this 26" tall tank. Mike is the only one who can reach the gravel, and that's only if we take the hood off. Yikes! We'll probably put most of the plants back into the 75, which I can reach, and keep a few big potted plants in the 150.. lower maintenance. I can't believe those fish were ever stuffed into 1/3 of the water space! They seem SO happy now.

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our good morning girl	Lorelei is forever yearning for the camera	Score!
more sweet morning smiles	preparing for the big fish move.. we decided to disassemble our 55 gallon planted tank, and replace it with a 75 gallon tank.	Jess - kid magnet
Here is our new 150 gallon tank! Don't ask how we got it from the pet store to that location.. sigh!	filled and inhabited temporarily by the fish and plants from our 55 gallon tank (the dark corner exists because we only had a 4 foot light on it at the time)	Lorelei is serious about her bread crust
This was such a sweet moment - Elliott carried his chair over to keep Lorelei company and started playing footsies with her. They giggled and laughed..	Lorelei kindly modelling the silly hat a friend gave us	inspecting Tigger's tail
Quick, look! A clean house! Lorelei sits upon her throne	Oooh! nguh-ahhh!!	Finally, a warm day when it's not raining.. we ran out to rake a leaf pile
This is the best one I got before..	it started raining! Ugh!	Lorelei discovers her new favorite food - wet leaves!
lick lick..	Mmmm, this one tastes like...	Elliott and Orin go to town on Elliott's last pumpkin
Elliott, Pumpkin Engineer	building a tippy tall tower	Lorelei flirting with Abby, the baby of a penpal
typing Abby secret messages	Lorelei stuffed into her snow suit.. she barely fits - sigh!	Elliott volunteers to "help" us wash some new gravel for the 75 gallon tank
Mike smooths out the layers..	Lorelei, Champion hair puller, enjoys a quick jaunt on Dad's shoulders	Mmmmm, sweet red pepper!
The angelfish are so impressed with their new abode that they actually lay eggs! If you look closely, you can see some yellowish blobs on the broad leaf below the striped angelfish (I was having trouble focusing the camera) - unfortunately, some other inhabitant of the tank decided to gobble all the eggs up that night. We'll move them to the 75 and see if they'll spawn again. So exciting! (UPDATE! We did, and they did! Photos Here!	a picture of the tank as it is now. Still a work in progress. The tall grass-like plants that grew to the top and then bent over in the 55 gallon tank now look stubbly and short in this 26" tall tank. Mike is the only one who can reach the gravel, and that's only if we take the hood off. Yikes! We'll probably put most of the plants back into the 75, which I can reach, and keep a few big potted plants in the 150.. lower maintenance. I can't believe those fish were ever stuffed into 1/3 of the water space! They seem SO happy now.