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Same here. A bowl, water, a plant or two and a couple of snails. Fed them once or every other day and they seemed to be perfectly happy. An an aside my daughter when she was young(now 31) got a pair of gerbils. I wasn't thrilled but was told they only live for 2-3 years so I figured that was ok. One died around 4 and the other lasted for over 8 years. For some reason all the animals we have had as pets over the last 35 years seemed to have lived longer than average and we do nothing special to them. Just food and a place to sleep, makes me wonder about all these expensive special diets and whatever for pets actually shorten their lifespans. They seemed to have survived on their own for tens of thousands of years without human internention.
Our fish isn't our only pet. We also have a Roborovski dwarf hamster and 2 guinea pigs. We have just the one daughter, so we're trying to appease her love of animals to some extent. Me, I'd rather have a dog in the house, but our current schedules would make that difficult at the moment. The guinea pigs are kind of fun, I can just perch one on my shoulder and he'll read NWFA right along with me.