No visible symptoms – guess it’s a good thing they’re in quarantine. We caught the one baby we still have from the last batch and moved her to the qt – because she’s a she and we don’t need more babies. She seems to enjoy swimming with the white angels.

As well, we got a parcel from Aquamail yesterday – very exciting. So we now own a 25 foot gravel vacuum, and a huge amount of food. We had given up on our order ever turning up, so we bought a bucket of flakes from Coburg anda some sinking tablets, and then Aquamail comes through with a bucket of flakes and two containers of freeze-dried tablets (the sort we originally had). Well, I guess it will keep. James insisted on trying out the vac; it worked well in the qt, and then we tried it in the main tank – it worked quite well; there’s a small section that looks remarkably clean – but it stirred the crap up a lot, too (or that might have been James’ technique). Of course, it’s a bit hard to do with all the plants. We may have to do as I heard someone else say – de-plant and vacuum sections at a time, do the whole tank over a year or so.