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How it all started!!




We love being fish keepers now but… 

We never planned on becoming fish keepers.

It all started on a family getaway to Vermont. The hotel we stayed at had a beautiful indoor pond that wrapped along the dining room. Every morning before breakfast, my youngest, Lucas, hurried over to the pond to visit them. What started as a curiosity soon became Lucas' love for these giant fish; nothing you would see in any home fishbowl. 

By the second day something funny happened, the fish would swim over to him. Maybe thinking,

"Does he have food?"

Maybe just curious about this interesting giant. Whatever the reason, every morning they would school around him while he happily talked to them. 

They had these big lips that would move like they were actually forming sentences. Lucas would turn around and say,

"They love me." 

He thought they were his friends, so he started calling them “his fish friends”. 

Then it was the day we had to leave, we didn’t expect it to be such an emotional morning for Lucas, as he had to say goodbye to his “fish friends”. 

We packed up our luggage while Lucas was very eager to go say goodbye to his fish friends. He was very sad about leaving them. I had stopped and thought,

“Wait... why can’t we have our own fish friend?”. 

I then suggested to my husband in a whisper,

“We could stop by the pet store after we arrive home and get some fish friends”. “Can’t be that hard to care for”. 

We were now on our way out and Lucas had to stop and say good bye. My husband, Shane, was a bit hesitant at first but I continued to talk about how much it would make Lucas happy. 

“See how happy they make him,” I suggested, trying to continue to convince him it would be so fun to have. 

By the time we arrived back at home, Shane had agreed we could go see about buying fish. We threw our luggage down in the house and hurried out to the pet store, we were to excited to wait.

None of us realized a little trip to the pet store was about to be a hobby our family would fall in love with.


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