Time to Restock

Unfortunately, I've lost a fish or two every day since I brought the school home on Saturday, and I'm now down to six of the original dozen. I had only salvaged four bodies, but upon explaining my plight to Alamo Aquatics, they were kind enough to give me six more.

One of the employees mentioned that he had tried keeping rasboras in his tank previously, but only 3 out of 12 would survive in his tank. He also made some recommendations as to a new show fish. His vote was for a ram, but also said a betta could work.

Curiously, their school of rasboras had not had any casualties since Saturday, which made me reconsider my diagnosis that they were succombing to disease. Knowing that the store used 50% tap and 50% RO water, the only thing I could think of was that due to my fertilizers, I had significantly more total dissolved solids (TDS) in my water than theirs. I knew this was not a problem in and of itself (after all, I kept plenty of seemingly unaffected fish), but perhaps the rasboras were not able to quickly adjust to such a dramatic change.

Therefore, after introducing them, I did a water change to bring down the TDS, and perhaps remedy any other problems my water was having.

The pictures in this post are various efforts at getting underwater pictures with my waterproof disposable camera. I had a few pictures to burn, and I wanted the roll developed, so I clicked and hoped, although they didn't turn out too well.