Fishwatch 20th August 2017

After returning from my month holiday in Malaysia, I picked up my 30L fish tank and 3 gold fish from dad (thanks for taking care of them) and returned home to give everything a good deep clean and set them back up on our mantle piece. Goldfish being what they are, had eaten all the seaweed in the tank leaving mainly stalks with no leaves on. I might be able salvage about half of them.

I wanted to buy some more seaweed and introduce a couple of loaches to keep in check the phenomenal amount of waste my goldies produce, so I popped down to Maidenhead Aquatics in Swindon. The staff are great in that they give sound advice on what to buy, so I ended up with a couple of Weather Loaches, some elodea and java moss with a mind to creating a moss wall. Wish me luck.

So here's my setup, 3 goldies and 2 loaches.

By the end of the evening, I was shocked to find the smaller loach had died. It was motionless, head to tail vertical and it's side against the glass, in the corner of the tank. As it was late, I thought i would remove it the next morning. To my surprise, there it was swimming around like nothing had happened. What was that all about???

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