I figured I’d give you all a quick update. Today (well, yesterday when this gets published), Nicole and I went out to Jenison to VI Pets to pick up stuff for my tank, a light, a plant, and some fish for it. They didn’t have anything in the way of lights that would do what I want. They did have a 3 LED light for it, but it wasn’t possible to change the bulbs in them without tearing it apart, which isn’t what I wanted. They also didn’t have any glofish that I wanted, just the same ol’ selection they had when I was there on Tuesday, a couple red and a yellow glofish. So off we went to VI Pets on Plainfield to see what they had. They had a much better selection in lights for my tank, I actually found one that was designed for my type of tank that sits on top of it. Now, since this is the first life in my tank, I figured I’d start small anyways, and not kill off $10 glofish to start with, you know – just in case. Right now I’ve got 2 glolite tetras and 4 ghost shrimp in it, as well as a wisteria plant that I picked up. So we’re on a good start to getting this tank going, but of course VI Pets didn’t have much of a selection of glofish either, just a few red and a yellow one. Here’s a picture of my fish:

And a picture of my plant and thermometer I got:

And a picture of my light I found:

And here’s how it looks right now:

Now all I have to do is find a blacklight bulb in a C7 size to make it work…so far it’s proving a bit harder than it seems, but hopefully I can find one and get this project done the way I want it

While we were out tonight, I decided I was going to look for some remote control outlets. You know, for those times when you have a hard to reach plug and want to easily turn it on/off? I found a 3-pack at Meijer tonight for only $25 so I picked it up (this is just one of the 3 outlets, one is being used for my rope light and one for my fish tank light):

So…I’ve definitely made some progress, but we’re not done yet!!

TTFN

-Michael