For the love of God the carpet is finally done!  Well it has actually been done for quite a few weeks since it is already the middle of March ~ I know, can you believe it?  We love this time of year in the 1000 Islands as it starts to wake up from winter.  Not much of a wake up this year for sure.  Makes you kinda soft when you don't have to deal with a REAL winter.

We've been very busy repairing tanks for what seems forever.  They were only to last ten years but held out for 17 so that's not so bad.  As we say, better now then July 4th!  We update each new season so that each visit you make to us you can rest assured that we have put time, money, and loving effort into what you are going to see.

This year I'm redoing the information on our creatures.  Everyone has always enjoyed them so I thought I'd do more of the same but updated to this wonderful time in earth's history.  It's turning out to be more fun then I thought!  I enjoy remembering when we got some of them, or times they have eaten their tank mates and although it is always sad, I must say if we are lucky enough to witness it we usually say OMG THAT WAS AWESOME!  Well, not for the guy who just got eaten, lol.

Holy Carpet Batman, thats a lot of carpet!

One of the jobs that we do before we open for a new season is shampoo the carpet.  We have done this many ways but have finally found what works best for us.  We begin with connecting the garden hose to the sink.  Then we connect one of those sprayers that connect to the end of a hose so you can add fertilizer to your plants.  We fill that sprayer with carpet cleaning solution, dial it to # 1 and begin spraying hot water on the carpet.  We let that sit for a minute or two, then we 'shop vac' the carpet.  If there are stains, we pretreat them.  If necessary we use a brush on a long handle to scrub the solution into the carpet.  Wala!  clean carpet. 
Once we had a carpet guy do it but it really didn't seem any cleaner then our efforts so this way we save money, get a good workout, and stand back at the end with a great sense of accomplishment.