New Faces, Deaths and Woes

It's been a rollercoaster day in fish land. David and I went to the fish store and came home with some new babies. I got a male betta and 2 pregnant guppies (for the 3rd time, I'm going to try to keep a 1/2 black alive!) David bought some neon tetras to go in my main tank.

When we got home, I was going to move my two very pregnant guppies into the newest tank of females, but discovered they have infections. I treated the water, but don't know if it's too late. Then, just now as I was doing "homework," I looked up to see Portia attack and kill one of my tequila sunrise guppies. I don't know if he was already sick or if she'd been working on him for a few days. He'd been up at the surface and a little chewed up for a couple of days. Today, she grabbed him by the tail and shook. While it was impressive, it was very sad. Of my originals, I'm now down to 1. In fact, not counting fry, I have only 2 males left! Hopefully the fry will prove sturdier as well as genetically impressive!

Addition and sickness

I added one guppy to the community tank. He's a little top-sword tail feeder from the batch Ty and I bought this week. He's not all that special, but I thought he was pretty and his tail is cool. It kind of looks like a can-opener.

Also, I'm not sure if my little yellow-tail girl has ick, but she's looking a little rough. My black and white girl that got scratched by the airstone is looking fuzzy, too. I may be losing two more. :(