Our new fish tank!!

Well we finally did it!! After over two years of the girls...and Aaron...(and yes - Dave W too) trying to talk me into getting a fish tank - we finally got one! A few months back - A & K seemed to be really acting out more than normal, so we decided to buy a 10 gallon fish tank and use it as sort of an incentive for the girls to be good. We made this whole chart where they could move their magnets either up or down throughout each day (for either good or bad behavior), and then at the end of each day - they could see how many marbles they'd earned and put that many into a jar. Once their jar got full - they would have earned fish (and along the way they could each earn gravel and then something to put in the aquarium - like a plant or castle.) Sounded good to me. They had each earned their gravel and plant/castle, so all we needed to do was fill our fish tank with water and then get their fish. This whole time Aaron kept telling me that we should have chosen a bigger sized aquarium, because they say (or I should say - Dave says) the bigger the aquarium - the less you will have to clean it. I thought maybe a 15-20 gallon tank would be ok, so Aaron started looking on Craig's list for a bigger tank set up. Not very long after that, a friend of ours offered us his complete set up for a good deal - the only catch - it was a 45 gallon tank!!!! We decided to just go for it, and the result...an AWESOME fish tank that the kids absolutely LOVE!!! It's huge, but very beautiful with even a cabinet below to store fish stuff. So now we have this huge fish tank, and because you can only start with a few starter fish - we have these tiny little bitty tetras and zebra danios in this huge aquarium!! Oh well - if we build it - they will come, right?! :-) Here's a few pics!!