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!

Room to grow!

The shelves are built and set up. We have some tanks on them already. Of course, I forsee some new jars, buckets, tanks and other trouble-causing fish-holding containers in the not-so-distant future. That's if I can get any of my females to live! I lost another one today!

So, here's the event tally for today:

*added 1 guppy and 1 dalmation molly
*lost 1 female guppy
*gave Ty 2 feeder guppies
*lost new guppy
*yelled at Portia for nibbling on the dead guppy.

Speaking of which, I never took the other dead guppy out, but it's definitely gone...

Death and treatment

Ich treatment continues. Today is the 2nd dose out of 3, so we're about 1/2 done. Everyone looks pretty good at the moment, actually. Well, all except the other Walmart fish. He was maybe a green grass or something and he's gone now.

I also separated the male and female feeders into two 1-gal tanks. I need to go back and move a couple males back out of the female tank. Tricky little things puffed up and lied to me to get in with the girls.

Oh boy

There's mass death going on in my tanks. The 1/2 black and yellow guy died. My citrus orange died. The females are looking rough. The fry seem to be fewer and the feeders are dropping like flies. I'm treating for ich and other parasites, so we'll see how it goes. Poor guys. I'm just hoping that Portia hangs on!

Cleaning

Just so I can keep track, I cleaned the tanks today. An almost 50% water change/vaccuum in the 10 gal. Complete wash and restock in both 1 gallons. Everyone should be happy now!

Also, I lost one fry. I had 12 (not 13 or 10) but I'm now down to 11. The switching tanks was a little hard on them I guess.

One down

I should have posted this the other day, but one of my black and white females died. It was a pretty certain thing. She'd gotten caught in the filter tube and had worn herself out against the air stone. Still, it was sad. She was pregnant and due pretty soon.

In other news, I cleaned all the tanks today! Hooray!