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DEATH TANK: THE CULPRIT HAS BEEN FOUND

DEFECTIVE PLANTS!!!

So after Kurama got droopy and sick looking we removed him from that breeding tank. Then the same thing happened to Wensleydale (But not Janice or Celestine??) so we removed them. And Sav cleaned the whole tank and all the things in it, and we put in Doulys and Bonaparte.

Well, Doulys passed away earlier today, and Bonaparte lost all his color last night. Its slowly coming back today as he feels better.

I lovingly dubbed this tank the death tank seeing as it is out to kill all our fucking fish!

So with everybody safely removed, Sav checked the water again and HOLY BALLS the pH was like OFF THE CHARTS!!

Turns out that one of the sets of 3 plants we got from PetCo was defective, where when it was in heated water, it released SOMETHING that raised the pH!!! Sav tested all the plants in the tank and those ones were the problem. And its clearly a defect, not like, a normal thing, because I got the same set and have it in my tank with a heater and none of my fish in that tank have had any problems whatsoever.

So...

Well, its really disappionting that Doulys died. I don't blame Sav at all, though she did get me a new girl which is nice. I just feel bad that Doulys died and I did really like her a lot, geez. All my original sorority girls have now either died or been adopted. I don't have any of them. :<

I'll name the new girl tomorrow. She's also a crowntail and is quite similar, but she's still young. And stressed from coming home.

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BREEDING UPDATE!!

So, Melanthe got sick for the first time ever. Sav believes she's coming down with Ick. :<

And after we removed Melanthe, Kurama got really droopy and he's kind of... depressed looking. :<<<

So they've both been taken out.

However, we have put in Bonaparte and Doulys!

I'm hoping she'll show vertical stripes!! She's old enough, and she's totally built her own bubble nest in the breeding trap.

Seriously though, we left them in there for three hours and Bonaparte's nest beat out Kurama's nest from 18 hours. 

Granted, I floated her next to him at my house while I tank cleaned and geez, talk about a reaction!