Someone posted on the Tropical Tank forum today that you shouldn’t keep many dwarf gourami together, and particularly not males. |This caused me no little consternation, until I remembered that there have been no deaths or even cases of GBH yet among our dwarf gourami, so it can’t be too much of an issue for them. There is a hidey spot under a piece of wood which often has a gourami under it – I wonder if it’s always the same one? No way to tell, short of clipping a fin or painting it (or using a Stick-It note, as someone suggested).

Still have the dropsy platy, which is a bit odd. It is also making me the quintessential paranoid guardian, because I’m worried one of the tetras has it too, but maybe it’s just fat.

I also read something on the forum which comforted me greatly – that all algae eaters, and particularly SAE, are great jumpers! So that explains those fish jumping, anyway, and I guess it explains the others too. Nice to know it wasn’t actually anything we did wrong as such – and how amazing that they could jump through that little triangular opening!

All of my plants are growing like crazy (the ones in the tank, anyway…). Even little bits that I half-thought to toss out have new bits growing, as I decided to replant rather than toss. So it’s all looking very healthy, which is exciting. Nitrite and ammonia both zero, nitrates around 5.