fish update: good news!
May. 7th, 2007 02:00 pmI know you are all anxiously awaiting an update on the state of my poor fishies.
Three doses of ick medicine, cranking up the temperature into the mid-80s, and some salt seems to have worked a bit of a miracle. I have not lost any more fish as near as I can tell (I haven't seen my catfish or the other pleco since I dosed the tank, but then I tend not to see them very often anyway.) The smallest of my severums is still in rough shape, but improving day by day. All in all, not nearly as bad as I'd feared.
Here's the two larger severums (5-6" long):

(not the best photo, but then they don't ever sit still)
Three doses of ick medicine, cranking up the temperature into the mid-80s, and some salt seems to have worked a bit of a miracle. I have not lost any more fish as near as I can tell (I haven't seen my catfish or the other pleco since I dosed the tank, but then I tend not to see them very often anyway.) The smallest of my severums is still in rough shape, but improving day by day. All in all, not nearly as bad as I'd feared.
Here's the two larger severums (5-6" long):

(not the best photo, but then they don't ever sit still)