The Hynes Family

Last Saturday, Dad decided to separate the male and female guppies, so that we could control breeding. He put the male red deltas in Mare's 29 gallon tank, the females remained in the 35 gallon tank, the really big females in Suzi's 10 gallon tank, and the lyretails(they have a different sort...

Our faithful parent cockatiels are in the midst of raising four babies, but the mamma is already sitting on another batch of--not two, not three, not even four--but five new eggs. We're starting to wonder where we will put all these cockatiels!! We made the decision to advertise Peterkin and Clarissa...

We just looked into the nestbox, and saw the father cockatiel, and the mother cockatiel-----and we're pretty sure we saw at least one fluffy, little baby cockatiel ! We were quite surprised, and, wow; all we had to do was leave the parents alone and try not to disturb them, and here we are, with...

We recently received a mail-order shipment of saltwater creatures. We got a Mertensii butterflyfish, a royal gramma, four green chromis, four maroon clownfish, a bubble-tip anemone, a fragment rock of mushroom coral, a brittle green starfish, a sand-sifting white starfish, six snails, and ten of hermit...

We just brought four new cockatiels home, about 10 minutes ago! They are a prolific breeding pair with two six-week-old babies. The previous owners told us that the female is bossy, and wants to be in charge of everyone. The poor male is missing a bunch of feathers on his head, so on one side he looks...

Yesterday(Dec 1) we bought some new Salt Water(SW) animals and plants. One of them was a long tentacled anemone, this animal can sting to some extent. Ok, so yesterday we put the anemone on a rock. We woke up today and found that the rock the anemone had been sitting on split in half! We have no other...

We are planning to get a pair of new cockatiels. The previous owners named them Cinnamon and Chantilly. This is going to mean that we have 5 parrots! The female, Cinnamon, is 1 year old. They say she's shy. Chantilly, the male, is 10 years old. The people say he's the nicer one. Yahoo! More birds...

We have three water turtles in the 125 gallon tank. We got them about a week and a half ago. Dad saw an ad on Craigslist for them, so he contacted the person who was giving them; this was a great free deal. The lady( in Rockville, Maryland, about 22 miles away) had to get rid of them, but wanted to give...

The chicks are doing well, and are a lot bigger than they were when we got them. They're actually starting to be like chickens, instead of delicate balls of down. The chicks are so nice. Hopefully we will be able to take them outside for a while before winter sets in. We are glad that there are still...

We have three pretty little parakeets. We think two of them are males, and the last one is a female. The blue one is Pippin. He's the friendly, playful one. That's why we let him out more than we let the others out. The green one is Merry. He's pretty shy, but sometimes he lets us pet him...