Waterlogged

It seems only natural that since I started the ball rolling here with my smallest tank with the smallest fishes yesterday, that things would go wrong today.

The Endler's livebearers have ick. Pretty severe on the female, so I'm sure that the other fish-- four tiny panda corys and a baby ancistrus-- are at risk too.

Started treatment with malachite green and melafix.

The ancistrus in the 5g corner died today. It had been hiding, and when it came out it was very pale. An hour or so later, it died. Ick, I suppose. This makes the fourth of these fish I've lost in the last few months. It sucks.

The endlers are still icky too.

The female endler's died today. I'm continuing to treat that tank, hoping the remaining male endler's and the panda corys survive.

Lost one of the tiny panda corys yesterday. That makes the sixth panda I've lost since I started keeping them. I originally started with a school of five on 8/8. By 8/20 there were only 3. I purchased 2 more of around the same size to replace the ones that died. They dropped off one by one until there were only 2 left, which I moved into the small tank on 10/24. I bought two much larger pandas to bring the school back to four. Now there are three. We'll see if I can maintain that. The tiny fish can break your heart.

The pandacide continues. A day after I took this, the little fella was dead. I noticed today that several of them appear to be infected by some sort of fungus. I started treating them with melafix/pimafix but the prognosis for the remaining five panda cories probably isn't good.

This complicates my plans for the 5g corner tank. I finally succumbed to the lure of mail-order fish. I ordered 5 pairs of Endler's livebearers today from a breeder in Tampa, Florida. They have been out of stock at A World of Fish, the only local dealer that keeps them, for about a month now. I really wanted to get more. With this outbreak, they can't go into this tank for a while.

But I've got a little eclipse 3g tank I can set up in the meantime. Too many fish tanks around this house.