fish notes!

Did a large wc and re-dosed the QT with Prazipro. Everyone looks great. Not keen on broccoli leaves, it turns out. They do like carrot, though. I tried clipping a leaf and letting it hang in the water, thinking they'd enjoy pulling it apart. They went all over the tank looking for food they could smell, but never nipped at the leaf. When I unhooked the clip and snipped the leaf into little bits, then they darted over to taste it. Although it makes feeding them fresh greenery a bit of a chore, I'm actually glad. If they think complete leaves are inedible or prickly like the fake plants and hornwort in their QT, maybe they won't even sample my live plants in the 55.

What happened last night? This morning I found most of the hornwort off its pegs, 

floating at the surface. 

A leaf of crypt balansae was bent down to the floor, too. I think either Miss Beautiful startled and crashed through the corner, or she was trying to ambush guppies in the dark. I spent a good five minutes re-pegging down all the stems. Found a funny thing- two little corkscrew vals on a runner that rooted onto a piece of sponge. 

Looks like soon enough I'll be thinning vals out of this tank.