I have no idea how, but once again we found a fish dead on the floor. Again, it was quite dessicated, so there was no resuscitation happening. The lid hadn’t been off, as far as I can recall, for any length of time. There are a couple of possibilities: it came out on an arm, when someone reached in to plant or rearrange something; or it jumped out of the corner, where there is a triangle opening in the glass lid, I guess for oxygenation. We have therefore turned the lid around, so the triangle is no longer an open door to the air. Makes it a bit harder to take the lid off – I guess it is worthwhile if it prevents any more kamikaze fish. And we’ll just have to be more careful when we put our hands in.

Platies apparently grow to about 4 inches, so that could be interesting! [Much later edit: actually, I don’t think this is true at all, and I don’t remember where I read it] The gourami won’t grow much more. As well, the platies are livebearers, so there is the possibility of fry! Given we don’t have another tank to move them to (I guess we could get one of James’ little, old ones, if we got serious), I don’t know how many would survive. I wonder who would eat fry, of my fish? Maybe the gourami; perhaps the Foxes… which I think are actually Algae Eaters (henceforth known as SAE – Siamese Algae Eaters).