It’s not over

Well, seems like the diamond’s lost for good. I never found him. The glowlight was dead yesterday morning, and the day before I had discovered a new spot on one of the cories. So Friday I took a trip to my trusty LFS and cried them a river. The guy listened, asked some informed questions and recommended a different dechlorinator with my ich medication, but said otherwise to keep doing what I was doing, sometimes ich just took a second swipe. So yesterday I started treating again, this time without salt and with the temperature not as high as I had it the first time.

Also, cudgeling my brain for what else was going on (if the water didn’t test pristine every time, I would almost have suspected the dead tetras to have had ammonia poisoning from the descriptions I read).

I removed the pothos that was hanging in the tank and growing merrily in there. I had read up on it before allowing it in there and been told that lots of people grow it in their tanks without adverse effects, which is probably true as long as none of the sap is released. It seems that that can be an irritant to cats and dogs, and it might have been an additional stresser every time a leaf broke off or the fish nibbled on it. Anyway, I took it out yesterday and did a 50% WC, and the fish seem a lot happier this morning, eagerly going after their food. Even the neon that still keeps mostly to himself joined the fray.

So, I’m only guessing here as to reasons, but as far as I’m concerned, the only non-aquarium plants that go in my tank from now on are the ones I’m ready to eat.