There's a surprise on my desk this morning.

It must have arrived yesterday, when I was off work taking care of my little guy (who was ill).
Aquarium supply retailers are trying to make me fat:
I was going to build the media basket out of egg crate for this build . . . but these media baskets are so pretty and nicely made. I just couldn't bring myself to do use egg crate.
So I guess this is one thing that wasn't an absolute necessity that I bought anyway.
