"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:23:19 GMT, Steven Schneider
wrote:

Also, I've taken the liberty of moving my food supplies for the
fish...once again. It keeps getting harder and harder to keep
things out of my two year old's reach. I don't remember her older
sister being such a little monkey. Ah well, my fault for lapsing in
keeping an eye on my own kids. :-)

I've been around several two year olds in my day, presently just one 2
year old grandson that poses a threat. He's been taught to "whisper"
when he's looking at the fish, and for some reason he understands
"whisper" as also meaning point carefully, but don't touch the glass.
It's sort of like "pet the kitty gently". So far so good. Tetra
includes a free plastic blue fish with blinking lights to remind you
when to do a water change, add nutrients, etc. It's really stupid
looking. I've suction cupped it to the front of the tank and
instructed Kamoy, my grandson, that this is his very own blue fish,
and he may press the buttons on it and make the lights blink whenever
he wants. So far so good. It was his mother, Liza, who fed the fish
pepper when she was 2. I hope this is not a genetic thing. 10 more
months until he's 3, and then there will be a whole new set of
curiosities to deal with. One year at a time.

-- Mister Gardener

I don't think I started until Luke was 3-4 years old, but he has always
loved the fish, and sees me doing stuff and wants to also, so now we do it
together, he holds the bucket when I vacuum, or fill them up, I got the fish
food that has a compartment at the top it holds enough to feed the fish
once, and he uses that, it also prevents anything else from coming out,
since he started helping he no longer *for the most part* gets into things
by him self. My older son once stuck his hand in the pacu tank and got bit,
he had slices down his finger, he has never bothered with another fish tank.
Nikki