Day 203 - Turtle

Nathan is thinking that we should get Maddie a fish tank for her birthday, I would prefer a turtle but after a lot of shopping, and asking questions at the reptile place in Kambah today, I think that I am sold on Fish. Apparently a turtle like this will only last in a tank about 4-5 years, and then it will need to go into a pond in the backyard, and supposedly, one turtle makes about as much mess as 15 or more fish. I was unrealistically hoping that you could have both turtles and fish in the tank, but the woman looked at me horrified when I suggested that and quickly and discreetly pointed out that the turtles like to eat fish.

Maddie loved looking at the lizards and turtles in the shop and thought that this little one was 'so cool' so she was pretty disappointed to be leaving it behind when we left the store and cried a fair part of the way home.