And the Saga Continues

And the saga continues. After tossing five feral danios, and a pearlescent bully into the stargate tank, the lone guppy in the terror tank developed a lump on his side and in a few days stopped listening to Dory. So I made a command decision and tossed Rocky the pebble tossing sucka fish into the stargate tank and gutted the terror tank. I killed all manner of snails, blew out the filter area, replaced all the rock - and while emptying it found a MONSTER. Yes. a dragonfly nymph had moved in. I now need therapy. Even in its translucent fit on a dime sized stage - its little floating carcass made my skin crawl. The nasty horrors can live four or five years in a tank - dismembering your little finny friends. I shudder. So the terror tank is cycling in preparation for a winter goldfish bungalow. Rocky the algae eater, after coming to an understanding with Sid that algae eaters don't like to be touched, is adjusting well. I do nerd out at the fact that any new thing in the tank gets feelered by Sid a few times - and then he leaves it alone. And so for the moment - nobody risks being dipped in resin and made paperweight. At least nobody with fins.