New Setup

Finally, I'm done setting up the new "planted" tank for the smaller fishes after spending the money on the plants and also a new smaller tank (pretty hefty investment). It looks nice but when I started to introduce the endlers (1 male and 1 female) to the tank, the female looked really stressed out. After a day, I decided to move them back to the old tank but noticed that the female had some kind of "internal bleeding" near the gills and also near the tail fins. It worsened today and when I "googled" for this, it appears that this is a bacteria infection due to stress. I do hope that the female gets better soon (putting the entire tank on general cure solution with salt) as she is currently our last female endler that is reproductive (the other female looked to be too small for reproduction).

Meanwhile, we visited the LFS again yesterday and got a trio of orange mollies (1 male and 2 females). The female mollies are pregnant and we are hopeful that this new litter of babies will survive (although I do not really like the orange color but Bryan is a huge fan of orange fishes). Two of the females looked to be suffering from a little fin rot (likely due to stress as well) and so all the fishes in the main tank is getting the same "cure" solution.

BTW, the last goldfish did not survive after all. The "cure" solution did prolong his life for another 2 days but it eventually kicked the "golden" bucket as well and is likely in goldfish heaven now ... RIP ...