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Post by Moonlight on Dec 30, 2015 2:19:08 GMT
The girls enjoyed the new Star Wars film.  We were concerned that they might find it too scary but they were fine and loved it. The girls sit in the middle. Fairy sits next to HH, then it is Pirate and then me at the end of the row. I helped Pirate read through those opening credits as I didn't think she was keeping up. Fairy kept asking HH questions including: Where Darth Vader was and didn't believe that General Leia Organa was infact Princess Leia because she looked old (but I don't understand how she could have looked any other way but also she looked good on it).
They both loved it.
The girls' present from Father Christmas this year was a fish tank. A very popular present, although getting them to get excited about washing gravel to put in the tank has proved more of a challenge. We went to a pet shop to choose some toys for the tank to get it ready for the fish once the tank is healthy. This took absolutely ages.
Then we popped round my Mum and Dad's to drop off his fork and spade that we gave him for Christmas as there hadn't been any room in their car on the way home on Christmas Day. He hasn't been well, his shoulder is playing him up and recently he fell over and has hurt his foot but I don't think the last two were necessarily connected.
He is behind on his tuber digging but hopefully he'll get it done.
I told my Dad about Tel passing and he is upset to. Kind and generous were among the things that he described him as. 'Garden Friends' isn't his 'cup of tea' in the dahlia department but he really rates Tel 's Birkenshaw Wyn's Favourite.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 30, 2015 11:50:11 GMT
Feeling a bit like 'The Little Red Hen' of fish tanks. Mind you the fish* won't need to worry I'm a vegetarian so I wont be eating them:
"All by myself"
*Bit of a paradox here considering we have not got the tank ready for fish yet...
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 30, 2015 12:31:25 GMT
Happy to report that excitement is building amongst the whole Moonlight family. Yay!
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Post by roofgardener on Dec 30, 2015 13:08:11 GMT
What sort of fish do you have in mind Moonlight ? |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 30, 2015 21:58:36 GMT
What sort of fish do you have in mind Moonlight ? |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 31, 2015 1:15:21 GMT
This is the Fish Tank that Father Christmas gave the girls as their Extra Special Christmas Present.
I don't know the technical specifics* but it does hold 25 litres water, it's a nice shape and has a light that is fitted in the lid.
So we have 2 big bags of washed gravel and HH has assembled the pump / filtration thingy. Following the easy to understand instructions...
(That aren't really clear).
It is one like this.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 31, 2015 1:42:26 GMT
Yesterday we went to the pet shop to buy some more gravel, some toys and plants to set the tank up.
We were also hoping to have a look at the fish that the girls were going to be able to pick from but ALL the temperate / coldwater fish were being 'treated' and we were not supposed to peek at them. (I got told off  ) decided against buying any plants. The girls chose a yellow pineapple (as you do), the heart (a popular choice) and a lighthouse. The tank will be 'cool', certainly unique.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 31, 2015 1:59:02 GMT
Today we went to a different Aquatic Centre and according to HH we ended up spending about 3 hours ( surely not but we did have an Omelette and chips / sausage in bagette in their cafe...) there and came out with 3 plants.
Yes 3.
I plopped them into the tank* which we had already put some water in but not too much because I wanted to be able to plant the plants.
I was going to leave them in the pots / hadn't got as far as thinking about how I was going to plant them -
HH who had read the instructions told me that you need to take them out of the pots...
Those nice self contained plant pots were hiding a dark secret. Not 1 plant but
bits of plant.
Bits of plant that would not stay planted.
You know that there are times when the right thing to do is to battle on
But others the best thing to do is to
Walk away.
You can probably work out what I ended up doing.
Showed the tank to Fairy who asked:
"Is that how the plants are going to look...?"
er No
We are going to leave it till tomorrow.
HH is not happy with the filter we were expecting more action in the bubble department.
Won't be surprised if we end up going back to a shop again.
*Look out at the floating Lighthouse which then sank in the above pictures - it was a real Glug, Glug, Glug moment.
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Post by roofgardener on Dec 31, 2015 8:23:14 GMT
Well, I for one think it looks really nice (including the plants) ! And I LIKE the submerged lighthouse.
Is the filter supposed to also act as an aerator (e.g. produce bubbles), or is it mostly just a sediment filter to keep the water clear ? Either way, I wouldn't have thought that a 25 Litre tank would NEED that many bubbles to keep it aerated ? ( I guess the number and size of fish would also have an impact there ? ).
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 31, 2015 11:11:13 GMT
Well, I for one think it looks really nice (including the plants) ! And I LIKE the submerged lighthouse. Is the filter supposed to also act as an aerator (e.g. produce bubbles), or is it mostly just a sediment filter to keep the water clear ? Either way, I wouldn't have thought that a 25 Litre tank would NEED that many bubbles to keep it aerated ? ( I guess the number and size of fish would also have an impact there ? ).
I am happy to announce that by the time that I went to bed there were lots of tiny bubbles.
*Not that I would have expected a lot of 'search engine hits' with a title like that. 
Speaking of toys it was a bit of a whole family choice (not us taking over) the girls who would secretly rather be looking at the Guinea Pigs (+I) (way too many foxes to have a guinea pig safe in the garden round here). The toy that HH originally chose was a pile of 3 barrels which we all agreed was bigger than the pineapple house and looked a bit silly (as you can tell we were going for realism with a Sponge Bob Square pants Pineapple house) and so the lighthouse was an agreed alternative. Went home HH on the computer discovered a Doctor Who Tardis (which the whole family loved as soon as we saw it) and when we went to the Aquarium Centre we spotted a Dalek  it was grudgingly agreed against we had already got our fish toys/ wasn't fishy enough / not exciting enough for the fish.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 31, 2015 11:15:02 GMT
This is our very bubbly tank this morning.
The plant / filter combo seems to be doing the trick.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 31, 2015 11:48:30 GMT
Is the filter supposed to also act as an aerator (e.g. produce bubbles), or is it mostly just a sediment filter to keep the water clear ? Either way, I wouldn't have thought that a 25 Litre tank would NEED that many bubbles to keep it aerated ? ( I guess the number and size of fish would also have an impact there ? ).
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 31, 2015 16:52:43 GMT
Oh dear, just had a thought today is New Year's Eve so I need to start a New Diary 2morrow.
Oh, haven't a clue what to call it.
Diary of a Woman that talks too much about dahlias and currently now fish tanks without fish.
Oh dear.
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Post by ian on Dec 31, 2015 16:56:18 GMT
Looks good Moonlight, do I see one of your seedlings and a Kenora Challenger in there hehehehehehe. Good luck with the fish what are you putting in there? Shibumkins are nice as are the black or gold gold fish.
All my best for the New year and the new fish.
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Post by ian on Dec 31, 2015 17:02:44 GMT
Could it be, The diary of a warm woman...... (At last the bl@£dy heating is fixed) The diary of a warm woman with a cold fish tank. The Moonlight diaries.
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Birkinshaw Wyn's Favourite came 1st.
