If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck

The State of Aquaria, August 2011 edition.

Looks much different from a year ago.

We still have the peppermint shrimp. The tiger brittle star had an accident about a month ago, and we had to re-home the coral reef shrimp as he developed a taste for expensive fish. Current inhabitants are: 2 percula clowns, a coral beauty, a yellow tang and a scooter blenny. We've got lots of inverts, including a plethora of snails & hermits and an emerald crab. The foray into corals include button polyps, 2 mushroom corals, green star polyps, a hammer coral, a galaxia and a Captain America brain coral.
The freshwater cichlid tank is also doing very well, I'll post a picture of it sometime. We also have 2 geckos and a fire-bellied toad that we've had for over 10 years, and a female betta keeping me company in the kitchen.

Hanging out in our baby soups.

It's raining, it's pouring

Rain Man is back with Little Miss Sunshine

On Sunday Sophie refused to take her sunglasses off.

We had a torrential rainstorm all day.

One fish, two fish

Swimming lessons have begun again!

Beating the heat.

And we went to the pool, too.

What happens at the beach stays at the beach.

The showers were Sophie's favorite part.

Happy 4th of July!!!

Water wars

Getting ready to play in the fountain at Fairfax Corner.

Tiny bubbles.

Hi I'm gonna take a bath now, kay thx bye.

Mom prefers the hot tub.

I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue

Look out, lad, a mermaid be waiting for you, in the fathoms below.

Water table.