So right before Easter Break when I was packing Elisabeth discovered that Rainbow had Ick. Ick is a bacterial infection that causes little white spots to appear on fishies. So I left my key and asked Jillian to take care of my fishies while I was gone and give them medicine. She did and when I got back Rainbow's Ick was gone, but now Silver had it. But Silver's wasn't as bad and we managed to get rid of that pretty quickly. So my fishies were happy and healthy. Jillian's fishies weren't so lucky. Her fishies got Ick too (apparently the store we bought fishies at had the Ick and since all the fishies there share water...). So both Jillian's fishies died and then her lone surviving shrimp died and she was left with nothing. We had to boil all the stuff that was in her tank because it was so bad. So yesterday we went to Chatty to get more fishies. While we were there I decided to get my Cardinal Tetras that I had wanted since that store was the only one we had found them at. I also got a Black Mollie to replace Black, except that she was pregnant (yay for baby fishies). So when we were acclemating my fishies we found that Rainbow had Ick again. I was really disappointed because I didn't want to put my Ick-free fishies in there, and I especially didn't want the baby Mollies to get Ick when they were born. Jillian had ended up ordering a fish because she wanted a dwarf puffer and they didn't have them there, so I begged a home for my fishies. So this morning I was awakend by a call from Jillian. She told me that Black Mollie had popped. I ran over to Jillian's dorm to see. There were only two babies. We suspect that Black Mollie gave birth in the night and ate the rest, 'cause fishies do that. So I took the babies out and waited to see if she'd have any more. She didn't. So I put the babies back in, took Black Mollie out and brought her over to my dorm. I didn't really want to put Black Mollie in an Ick-infested tank, but we didn't have another bubbler to put her in her own tank, and if we left her with the babies she would eat them. The Cardinals are so small that they can't eat the babies even if they wanted to. So Rainbow and Silver have accepted their new tank mate pretty well. But then she is a large, formally pregnant, black fish. She's kinda... pushy. So I put in this really, as Elisabeth puts it, bad butt medicine. This medicine has formaline in it, what they use instead of formaldehyde nowadays. This medicine will kill any bacteria in the tank, the good and the bad. If I put to much in I can burn my fishies' gills and then they won't be able to breath. So this medicine is serious stuff. Hopefully all the Ick will die, all the fish will live, everyone will get to go in the right tank and it will all be good. I'll keep you updated on the exciting world of my fishtank.
P.S. We also got some Ghost Shrimp that are in Jillian's tank right now too. We got some with eggs so we can have Ghost Shrimp babies too and they will be fruitfull and multiply and fill the fishtank, and we'll have Ghost Shrimp forever and ever and never have to buy them from the store again.
