Since DH and I have been in MN, we’ve went to a lot of garage sales - our best find so far has been a 55 gallon aquarium, with a wooden stand, a hood, and rocks, and a 3 decorations for $100.

We didn’t get the pump because we are going to use the tank for Sheila. Monty still isn’t eating, and we hope that if he gets his own home he will feel more comfortable and start eating.

We finally got the tank cleaned out, yesterday, we were looking for a screen to cover the top of the aquarium so Sheila can’t escape from it.

When we went to buy the screen - we got the biggest screen they offered - a 55 gallon screen.

DH took it to a 55 gallon tank in Petsmart to see if it fit…and it did - but that aquarium looked a lot smaller than our aquarium.

We looked around and realized that our aquarium is a 75 gallon aquarium!

So we were both walking around Petsmart looking all depressed and in shock because we thought we’d bought a 55 gallon aquarium, and actually got a bigger, 75 gallon aquarium.

Unfortunately, that means that DH will have to build a screen to keep Sheila in the tank - so that’s why we were disappointed.

But it will be ok. I’m sure that Sheila will love the extra space.

We are thinking that she is a female ball python, and they can grow from 4-6 feet long, so even though most people say they need at least a 30 gallon aquarium to live in, I think she’ll be happy with the 75 gallon aquarium, and I’m glad that she will have lots of space.

Of course we probably won’t be able to get as big an aquarium for Monty…but he’s so much smaller than Sheila is, so we’ll worry about that later.

Of course now that I know that it’s a 75 gallon tank, it kind of makes me wish we’d gotten the pump!

After all, we are planning on getting a fish tank sometime.