No baby rams at this time. Yesterday the parent rams ate the eggs when they didn't hatch. I wasn't optimistic.
I have been using Paraguard by Seachem this week because one of my black skirt tetras was acting oddly and had visible fin rot on his tail. He was "sliding" backwards in the water, listing to the side, at times, and then would twitch and swim right again. And one of the rams was "flashing" against the gravel which is often a sign of parasites. So, I started the Paraguard.
I'm an unabashed fan of Seachem. If they sent me a t-shirt I would wear it. I use Prime, Purigen, Stability, Flourish Excel, Flourish Trace, Flourish root tabs, and Stress Guard. I even use the Neutral Regulator, too. Why? Because I have had good results when using their products. For example, Stability cycles my tank faster than anything I have tried. It was a lifesaver when I had the 20 gallon going and it had an ammonia spike and algae bloom. Stability got everything back in balance. And, when I had an Ich outbreak, Paraguard saved my fish.
The fish are looking much better now. The fin rot seems gone on the black skirt and the ram doesn't seem to be flashing as much.
And, below, here's a pair of my otocinclus catfish. I have four altogether and I have seem them as lately as this morning, so they are alive, if elusive. I will be so happy if I can get them through the fist two weeks. I don't want to lose any more. Obviously, right?
There's plenty of algae in the tank for them to eat as you can see on the leaf in the lower left corner of that picture.
The last time I checked the water, there were zero ammonia and nitrite and somewhere around 10 or 20 ppm of nitrate. It was looking pretty good.
Today I noticed a snail on the back glass. I don't know where it came from! I'm not alarmed about it, yet, though. Snails eat algae and decaying plant matter. I don't prefer snails, however. But, only one of them isn't a big deal. One, however, means there are more, I imagine.
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