Meet Calypso, Argent, and Madame Mirabelle:
Calypso and Argent are the red and silver platy fish, respectively, and Mme Mirabelle is the albino African clawed frog. She’s a baby now, but someday she’ll be about the size of a hand. In the above picture, she’s in the middle of a meal. 
Yesterday, I did two things. First, I cleaned the fish tank, and then I added two snails that Tom bought me earlier that day. ( 
!) This all was brought about by the ridiculous amount of algae in the tank, due to it being in direct sunlight:
The first task, cleaning the tank, involves taking the fishies and the froggy out, so that they won’t get stressed out by the water change. So I netted the fish and put them in a bowl for a few minutes, and caught the frog and put her in a little cup with airholes for breathing. Changed the water, put the fish back in, and all was well, until I was about to put Madame Mirabelle back in the tank.
At which point she jumped out of my hand. And somehow landed in one of the slots in my radiator:
She was INSIDE the radiator. So I started freaking out, obviously. I was near tears, panicky, as anyone would be if their pet were trapped inside a radiator. Clearly a common problem. 
I thought she was lost forever, but then Tom, with the brute strength of a hero, pulled the metal front off the radiator, and Mme was sitting there inside, looking pretty scared. So then she jumped out onto the floor, under my bed, then she started running around, got stuck for a second between two sneakers, and I caught her and got her back in the water. 
She appears to be fine now, and has been pretty active, though she did spend an hour or so hiding under a plant when she first got back into the tank…
It was quite the adventure.
After that, I felt okay bringing the snails into the equation. When I was buying my snails, the shop owner said, jokingly of course:
“Just add a little ginger and soy sauce to these guys, and you’ve got a meal!”
So my snails are named Ginger and Soy Sauce, because one of them is golden and one of them is dark brown, so it ended up working pretty well. 
Ginger and Soy Sauce are surprisingly entertaining. They move around pretty quickly, breaking barriers for stereotyped snails everywhere, and they have really cool mouths with tiny little tongues. Also Ginger climbed on Soy Sauce’s back/shell within minutes of their arrival in the tank:
Snail sex? A distinct possibility. 
Below, a short video of The Menagerie in action:
A pretty view of Columbia is in the background. 
