Three weeks, my fish began scratching and iching on the sand, driftwood and plants. After 3 days, I noticed 2 spotfin shiners and a blacknose dace had white specks. So the 3 lathargic fish were removed, I put a heater in the tank and dumped in some salt. Within one day, no itching. After three days with the heater on, the redbreast was building a nest and the fish stopped itching. It seems I am in the clear (no signs of ich for a week).
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Okie dokie. I went out to collect some plants, and these are what I came home with:
Elodea canadensis
Lemna minor
Myriophyllum (spicatum)?
Vallisneria (americana)?
Potamogeton (crispus)?The duckweed (
L. minor) and moquitofern was loaded with daphnia and cyclops, so it went into a container outside to see if I can get any reproduction.
The rest all went into the 46 Gal. Here are the pics:
Two Val plants with two Altamaha pocketbook shells
Elodea with some
G. holbrooki sneaking around
Curly-leafed pondweed
The watermilfoil - I couldn't get a clear pic except when trying to focus on something else.
Speaking of which, what would an update be like without new pics of my favorite fishy:
Here is my redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus) begging for food. The last pic is my favorite - after some photoshopping this pic is now my avatar. He is showing off in these pics by getting rid of his reds, brightening his blues and standing up his spines - he was quite ready for some food and didn't want anyone near him!
As you can tell, he has grown quite a bit since those first pics. In those earlier pics, he looked to be all head and eyeballs. He finally started eating pellets (which helped him fill out).
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