Two of my lovely black and white angels have died

We noticed on Friday morning that one of them was sort of hiding, lying in the plants – not quite horizontal, but not vertical either. Then, later in the day, we saw the other three standing on their tails, about half way up the tank in one of the cornersm just floating there, looking up at the top of the tank. The fish basically stayed there, occasionally moving around a little, with one of the others sometimes pulling the lie-in-the-plants trick. We were worried, but we had to go to Ballarat for the night.

When we got home on Saturday, they were still all alive, but clearly not very happy. They barely moved from the more protected side of the tank, even though there has been no sign of bullying – I think I saw one of the other angels chase a b&w one, but only for a moment and not since. There was little change on Sunday.

This morning, one of the angels was dead. When I got home from work, there was another one dead. Tonight, neither of the remaining ones ate any food – one sort of floated close, but the other just hasn’t moved. I’m going to call Coburg tomorrow, and see whether they have been having any issues with them.

On a very different note, baby cloach’s stripe goes all the way around his middle. On the other two, one has a plain belly and the other has a black spot that’s in line with his middle stripe. It will be interesting to see whether the stripe grows, or whether he will end up like the other two.