He died a couple of hours after my last post. I moved him into the little isolation tank to get him away from Bitch Fish, and I rather suspect that the move probably contributed to his death. Poor little thing… he didn’t have a very happy little life…

Yes, have been away for a week… the fish survived… but. I was on the ‘phone just now, and I noticed that the very-non-alpha male, which has been in the QT for quite a while now since he was getting bullied by the alpha male in the main tank, is looking very sad. He’s got black happening on his sail fin – I don’t know whether this is a problem or not – as well as swimming very listlessly. Worse yet, Bitch Fish is having the occasional go at him… he looks like he is missing a few scales in places. He is swimming sometimes vertically, sometimes with only one fin although there is nothing noticeably wrong with the other, and often just going with the flow. I don’t know what to do with him, because I am sure that the alpha male would have just as much of a go at him as She does.

On a brighter note, the main tank is looking fairly good. We still have some algae issues, climbing all over my plants, which is annoying me a lot. I need to go and buy some more plants, I think… the chain sword thing is going well, although it hasn’t grown as much while we were away as we had anticipated.

Ajax is, of course, very well.