Waterlogged

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The newest tiny cories in the house. They're a little less than an inch long.

The seven gallon hex tank is the oldest tank in the house at 5 months (as of yesterday). It's first residents were some bronze cories (the same ones that just reproduced themselves). It took a lot of trial and error to get plants to thrive in it. I suspect that it's the plants that allowed these little sunset coral dwarf platies to survive their parents.

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.

Seven or eight cory fry were seen swimming in the nursery tank today. I hope they make it. Thee are also three tiny coral platies getting bolder in the 7g hex. It looks like they may make it to adulthood.