| 2/7 | new tank, I put in Bio-Spira |
| 2/8-2/10 | overload tank: total of 6 neons, 3 diamonds, 5 platies, 2 swordtails, and a dozen baby swordtails |
| ~2/12 | remove 4 fish, not overloaded any more |
| 2/14 | install AC 200 w 2 sponges, see Ich on 2 of 6 neons and the swordtail. Remove carbon & start Ridich treatment (daily dose & water change) |
| 2/14-2/16 | All three days - pH 7.6, nitrite 0ppm, ammonia 0.50ppm. Baby swordtails start to die, probably from the RidIch. |
| 2/20 | My AP test may be giving false readings for ammonia, here's why. Two neons have salt grain-sized cysts now. Hopefully they'll fall off soon and my dang daily water change/dose will do some good. They're eating, but their swimming is jerky and they are hiding more often. |
| 2/22 | Two neons died :(. I mis-dosed the Rid Ich, thinking one capful was 5mL (3 capfuls = 5mL). The remaining fish are better for the most part with the correct dosage and a temp of 85F. One neon might not make it, though. I also turned off the UGF tubes after running the AC 200 for a week. I'll test the water to make sure everything is ok. Oh yeah all of the baby swordtails kicked the bucket (before the temp increase), probably from the Ich. |
| 3/1 | All of our neons died from ich, not a surprise really. One of our diamond tetras FINALLY has no visible sign of Ich. I'll use the RidIch for 3 more days and slowly bring the temp back to 79, it's at 84 right now. The recently de-Iched diamond and all of the neons came from a different lfs than the rest of the fish....hmmmmm. We got an Eclipse 6gal and two female platies from the non-Ich lfs :). One of them started shooting out fry a couple hours after we put them in the 6gal (treated w bio-spria), so we moved one of the platies to the 20gal and the mom the next morning. There's about 30 fry zipping around happily right now. |
| 5/30 | Well, we got some new fish: 2 clown loaches, 2 serpae tetra, and 1 bala shark. The loaches died within 24 hrs, though :(. Water tests are normal (pH 7.6, nitrite 0, ammonia 0)...maybe we got some bum fish? |
| 6/1 | We returned the bala shark and right now we're trying to figure out why the female black swordtail is being super aggressive. She's been a bully in the past, but recently she's been really mean. We moved one of our female platies to the 6gal because she was being bullied constantly. |
| 6/3 | The harrassed platy died :(. We put in 3 more blue tetra for a total of 5. The two blue tetra were hiding all the time before, now they seem better. |
| 8/3 | Our bully swordtail died about a month ago, the teeny 6 gal probably stressed her out too much. Yesterday we got 6 gold white cloud minnows for the 6 gallon. We also got a background for the tank too, it looks MUCH better now. I think the previous fish were stressed out by not having a tank background even though it faced a white wall. So far so good :). |
| 1/22 | We redid a lot of stuff. New 10 gallon to replace the problematic Eclipse 6 and redecorated the 20 to my wife's liking. We got 4 new fish today for the 20: 1 marigold swordtail, 1 red platy, 1 gold molly, and a bumblebee goby. The goby is really interesting. I got a paradise fish for the 10 gallon and I like it a lot. It's pretty tame and seems to like the tank. |