They include: 3 clown loaches, partly to deal with the snails (they have already eaten a lot of what we assumed were snail babies, on the leaves); 6 Siamese Flying Foxes (to eat the algae, and they have been sucking it up like little vacuum cleaners), and 4 mostly-silver angels (because they look cool). The cloaches and angels will apparently get fairly large, so that should be entertaining.

The angels, with their beaky mouths, appear to like tearing into the plant with the feathery, pine-like needles. The cloaches and Foxes look pretty funny, with their mouths underneath, as they mow the algae. The tetras appear to be sulking, but hopefully they will get used to having to share the tank.

We bought a stack of kits, as well – ammonia and nitrite both seem to be about 0, which seems odd for such a new tank. We’ll have another go at testing tomorrow.

Haven’t noticed any other Odd Bits on fish.