No visible signs why. Slow nitrite poisoning; what a way to go.

Another food source for our fishies is frozen bloodworms. They come like little ice cubes. You pop one out, put it in the water, and it defrosts so the bloodworms (actually mosquito larvae) disintegrate and go everywhere – the speed depending on how hungry the fish are and fast they push the cube around. Once takes a minute or so to finish off the cube completely.

There is a platy with what looks like dropsy – its stomach is bloated, and the scales on its side are sticking out. It is still eating and acting pretty normally. The other platies seem to be particularly attentive of it – at first we thought it might have been pregnant, but we’re pretty sure now that it isn’t; it’s been like that for a few days, and I think livebearers give birth pretty quickly. So unfortunately this one will also go the way of the others.

I’m going to Adelaide tonight, until Tuesday, and James is going away for part of the weekend too, so it will be interesting to see what happens to them.