No real news just some updates.
My female acara Jazz is still alive but basically what I'd call a hospice fish. She can't hold herself up much at all but can swim in stiff bursts. Most of her day is spent resting at the bottom propped under the plants or on her side. Looks like her swim bladder is busted if I had to guess. I bumped up the water temp to 83 which she seems to like better. There seems little point to setting up her tank so I'll likely use it for hrp Mica's fry (they're too small to donate yet). I really like acaras, maybe I'll look into a 'regular' or golden one. She's actually pretty strong when I catch her to feed. Strong enough to leap from my hands straight into a bucket of dirty water I was cleaning poret foam with. (AGAIN!) I usually wear the textured nitrile gloves when handling sick fish to grip them better with a gentler hold. She jumped from my grip anyway...but anytime I'm near the work sink the bottom drain is covered! The only reason she landed in the bucket is because it was in the way. Food helps her strength and she's comfortable with he higher temps. Her situation is posted in the disease thread.
On a lighter note, my Oscar Brick is having a good time hurling his ball out of the tank. It used to be once every other day. Now its several times a day. I get tired of fishing it out from corners, under the window, behind the door, under Kong's tank stand or under the window. So I'll leave it on the floor until I feel like getting it. He stays busy (as the king) bossing the syno and hrps and doing aqua scaping. The large rocks get rearranged like chess pieces (you can hear the cracking in the next room).
Bp Boss often gets an assist from red rainbow Salt for keeping tank order. The two have always gotten along well. Somettimes the hrps challenge the oscar for a space. Brick just swims at them slow and opens his maw. They scatter.
