Without Dark You Cannot Have Light

Sooo Taj started his new job with the Census today. He popped in during lunch, and we spent a nice lunch together and poked at his new little computer and nifty things. He says training is dreadfully boring but he is still very much looking forward to the job. Over the weekend with my mom's help we'd picked him up an amazing new wardrobe for his business self and he looks delicious!

My back/hip are roughly the same. I attempted to go off the percocet myself last week. Bad idea. I almost landed in the hospital and an emergency call to my doctor after hours put Taj at Schnucks picking up opiates the doc wanted me back on immediately. I do think a little more clearly with these new ones, so I'm not quite as prone to wanting to stop them immediately.. but I still hate being drugged, and I still can't sleep on them.

Our Bumblebee Cichlid died this morning. We have no idea why. Everyone else looks healthy and 100% perfect. We did a massive water change, gravel vacuum , and cleaned out one of the two filters. Temp is fine, Ph is fine, not sure what happened. He has acted "weird" for weeks now though. He went from being outgoing and playful to shy and hiding 90% of the time. So something was "off." We'll miss the little guy he was amazingly cool with his chameleon colors.

We are getting a 55 gallon for the fishies though! My parents are downgrading from their 55 gallon into my old 44 gallon Hex tank (it will be beautiful in their living room.) Once their new carpet is put in (Thanks to no payment or interest for a year) in apx 3 weeks, they will be switch tanks and are giving us the 55 gallon. So.. we'll be moving our little guys into their new big home. We've already talked with our "Cichlid Guy" and he's advised us to get a few new guys during the move so we're going to. I had been afraid to, but these guys really need a few more now that we've lost 3 over time.