What do Brad Lidge and my aquarium have in common?

No more "Lights Out"!












It has been four days, which should be sufficient to kill of the BGA, so I got to put the light fixture back with the legs fixed so that it nicely stradled the top. I want to let it continue without any photosynthesis through the night, but I still went ahead and changed the water (though not quite 50% of it).

Some notes from the water change:

• I tried moving the foam pad to the inside of the Rio pump, but it provided too much resistence, and the pump wasn't able to move the water.
• I cleaned the pump, but it's still making a ton of noise, presumably because of the high resistance of the system (though I don't remember it being this noisy originally...).
• I was happy to see one of my six golden kuhli loaches appear, and even happier to see it disappear (which presumably meant it had find a suitable place to hide again and would not be stressed out). It's barbels looked great.
• It was neat to see all five of my otos shoaling together during the refill, though it reminded me to do future refills with warmer water so as to not stress out the fish with a temperature swing (I am worried that the behavior was stress-induced).
• I'll get a better idea with the full lights on, but the plants look good for the most part, they're just all closed up, either because that's what plants do at night, or they're straining upwards in hopes that they can find some light. I imagine it will resolve itself in the morning.

One of my co-workers is interested in adding plants to his goldfish tank, so I might start him off with some of my extra java moss, and we'll see if his goldfish doesn't eat it all. If that goes well and the rest of my tank goes well, I can give him additional cuttings (watersprite, I'm looking at you), that won't make the cut for my 5 gallon.