fish doings

I recently got home from a three-week vacation. For the first two weeks I had someone to water plants and feed the fishes, the last week they were left on their own. Pleased overall to see how things went in my absence.

All the fishes in the main aquarium seem fine,

even Tilda, who was my biggest worry. 

Pinkie looks great- his eyes seem less cloudy, tail notch even diminished.

The first day home I changed out a third of the water. Five days later changed out 25%, as well as gently rinsing out the filter medium, cleaning algae off the front glass and trimming off a lot of decaying plant leaves. Now the tank growth looks sparse again, but I wanted any bit of decay out of there, to get the tank really clean again...