Published on Feb 5, 2017
Things are finally back in order now. My water parameters finally tested good today.
Sadly, I lost four fish in the space of a week and a half to an ammonia spike and possible bacterial infection in one of the fish - the Bosemani. I also lost the female Peacock Gudgeon, my Emerald Rainbow, and my Yellow Rainbow.
I was attached to them, of course. I had the Bosemani for years. He would hide so he wouldn't have to deal with the Rainbowfish school "politics", haha. The Emerald was nice. Had him for many months and he was well on his way to having his full colors. I had looked forward to having a Peacock Gudgeon pair again for years. I have to wait a week or two and make sure my tank is stable, then I can add some new fish to replace the ones I lost.
Of course, all three Rainbowfish will take a year to get up to full coloration, and I'll always miss the originals I had.
The Emerald was bluish-green with fins that went from silver to light blue to deep blue to light blue to silver to red, and was getting more and more of the bluish green filling in on the body. He'd follow my finger all over the place.
The Yellow was new and already quite colorful. As mentioned, the Bosemani was over 3 years old and basically at full color, but not full size. Rainbowfish live a good 6-10 years and get huge and very broad and tall, in the males at least, topping out around 4-5 inches. These were all around 2-3 inches.