[RKDinOKC]

Put together a Saltwater aquarium when in college and had it for about 3 years after. Yes, it was a hassle to maintain. Had to keep a 10 gallon bucket of water setting out so the chlorine could evaporate out. Had to add about 3 gallons a day to replace the water that would evaporate out to the 60 gallon aquarium. Had all kinds of very colorful fish including a clownfish. It died after I added a cleaner shrimp and didn't quarantine it long enough. It brought in some disease that killed everything about a month after adding. Would have had to sterilize everything and start over completely so ended up giving all my aquarium stuff to a friend for helping me take a motor out of a Monte Carlo to rebuild and swap into my Blazer.

I really wanted an octopus, but understood they are very difficult to keep in the aquarium. They are escape artists. Did not want to get up in the middle of the night one night and step on it.

Had a gerbil instead of a hamster. 4 year old girl Mom was babysitting stabbed it with a pencil. Replaced it with an Owlet some kids in the neighborhood had. Asked my mom for a dollar to get a bird. She was sure surprised when I came home with a baby owl. The Great Horned Owl, Herbert Hooter lived 10 years. Owls move their head and neck around because their eyes are cylindrical and don't move in the sockets. Also more than half of the head is ears, most of the rest is eyes or beak. There is a great horned owl that sits at the top of the cottonwood tree in my back yard. Can hear him hoot in the middle of the night, but haven't been able to actually see it.