fish treatments

Yesterday I did fifty percent water changes on three tanks and dosed with levamisole. The angelfish tank still looks okay and I don't know if my shrimp bowl has gotten cross-contaminated or not. I did a half dose for the guppies and the white clouds in the window tank. (Lost another white cloud, now only three). Moved Laddie out into a QT bin so he could get a full dose.

Covered the tanks to keep dark, checked on the fishes this morning. Laddie is already perked up more. He didn't eat but is moving around alert. Dark marks on both dorsal and anal fin, I've seen it before don't know the cause- but feel better now that he will recover.

When I did this treatment before, the floaters died. I put some salvinia minima aside in small containers just in case.

Guppies and white clouds were all hiding timid under plants at substrate level when I checked on them. Guppies in the tenner ate, and I was pleasantly surprised to see I haven't lost any fry in the 20H- at least their numbers don't look diminished- I never did an exact count. Maybe one guppy in the tenner is gone, I only counted nine but the other could be hiding. However the tank has a slight bad smell- I found one horned nerite closed up unresponsive, wonder if it's dying. Or if the other nerite or missing guppy died and I haven't been able to find it. When I do the big wc at end of treatment (tuesday) will lift some things out to look more thoroughly.

One small thing of cheer- in the dim light (tanks are covered while on medication) I saw that one of my buce is flowering:

Found out why the sweet potato vine was faltering on top of the window tank. There's tiny aphids and mealy bugs again. Not very many- I dipped a toothpick and swiped them off the parrot's feather.

Yesterday put hands in my 45 to lift out  small sponge filter sitting in background- to use in the QT for Laddie. Also pulled out four empty ramshorn shells. I think nearly all my blue ones are gone now. Either they got old, or they got eaten.