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June 18, 2005
Lesson to remember...
Swordtail males HATE each other. Never own more than one unless you have a big enough tank so they can be far, far apart. Which unfortunately I don't have. Anyway, picked up another trio of koi swordtails from AF last night and added them to the 12 gal tank. The existing male koi immediately went on a rampage, targetting both the other male and even the females. So this morning I took him out and exiled him to the 5.5 gal tank. Brought over the 2 male Endler's while I was at it.
So the new lucky male koi has the big tank all to himself along with 4 females.
On a negative note, my remaining female gold barb seems to have come down with some sorta fungus or bacterial infection cause it has these red ulcers on one side of its body that's looking rather raw so I started dosing the tank with antibacterial and fungal medicine. We'll see how it does in a week.
[UPDATE - 6/22]: Gold barb is all healed now. Guess the anti-fungal, anti-bacterial double-dose actually worked. =)
Posted by ronin at June 18, 2005 11:03 AM