Miss Wiggle
Practically perfect in every way
one of my favourite and oldest fishies is really poorly 
he's a lovely black angel called Angelis, he's the ultimate survivor, poor fishy has been through so much. When he was a juvi I had a killer bacterial infection in his tank, tried everything but no meds seemed to work, killed off every other fish in the tank except him. No idea how he survived it but he did, he was always weak from that point on though, I think he must have sustained permanent damage from the illness when he fought it off. Year or so later we had a change around of tanks and I moved him into Ian's tank, unfortunately when we caught him he decided he really didn't wanna be in the net, just as we were about to put him into the new tank he splashed out of the net and fell about 6 feet to the floor again he was really dazed and unwell for a few days but seemed to pull through, then a year or so later there was an accident with the Co2 in the tank, one of the cats knocked the regulator in the night and turned it up full whack, came down in the morning to Co2 streaming out into the tank and suffocated fishies floating around. We thought he was dead then but again he somehow survived it, unfortunately he was weak before and was much worse afterwards, often he gasped for breath and was pretty inactive. I thought about euthanaising him after that but although he was clearly not that strong he was still swimming and feeding, developed no secondary infections or anything so we decided he was probably well enough although we knew he wouldn't last long after that. Just left him to live out his final years in relative peace!
The tank he was in was in a lovely balance, had so many plants that it never got a nitrate reading, hadn't done a water change in about 6 months, monitored the levels and stuff but hey... if it aint broke don't fix it! The point of water changes is to reduce nitrate, if the nitrate consistently reads 5ppm then you've no need to do a water change. Just topped up for evaporation. Unfortunately the hornwort in the tank had rather taken hold and it was looking messy. So Ian had a fairly drastic prune of it this weekend. On Sunday night I noticed poor Angelis was gasping again and not swimming very strongly, thought OK his time has come, been expecting it for a little while, decided to give him a day or two, see if he perks up, and if not I'd put him out of his misery. Came home from work last night and he was looking a tiny bit perkier although still gasping so I decided to give it one last ditch attempt to bring him back round. Checked the levels in the tank, got 1ppm of ammonia
The plants must have been doing so much filtration that removing a chunk has effectivley started a mini cycle. properly annoyed that I didn't think about that before, was expecting an algae bloom but not a cycle. So did a massive water change last night, did a little filter maintenance to make sure they're running well and just got to keep my fingers crossed.
Think it's the end for poor Angelis though, he's had such an unlucky life the poor thing, seems every disaster we've had he's been involved in it.
he's a lovely black angel called Angelis, he's the ultimate survivor, poor fishy has been through so much. When he was a juvi I had a killer bacterial infection in his tank, tried everything but no meds seemed to work, killed off every other fish in the tank except him. No idea how he survived it but he did, he was always weak from that point on though, I think he must have sustained permanent damage from the illness when he fought it off. Year or so later we had a change around of tanks and I moved him into Ian's tank, unfortunately when we caught him he decided he really didn't wanna be in the net, just as we were about to put him into the new tank he splashed out of the net and fell about 6 feet to the floor
again he was really dazed and unwell for a few days but seemed to pull through, then a year or so later there was an accident with the Co2 in the tank, one of the cats knocked the regulator in the night and turned it up full whack, came down in the morning to Co2 streaming out into the tank and suffocated fishies floating around. We thought he was dead then but again he somehow survived it, unfortunately he was weak before and was much worse afterwards, often he gasped for breath and was pretty inactive. I thought about euthanaising him after that but although he was clearly not that strong he was still swimming and feeding, developed no secondary infections or anything so we decided he was probably well enough although we knew he wouldn't last long after that. Just left him to live out his final years in relative peace!The tank he was in was in a lovely balance, had so many plants that it never got a nitrate reading, hadn't done a water change in about 6 months, monitored the levels and stuff but hey... if it aint broke don't fix it! The point of water changes is to reduce nitrate, if the nitrate consistently reads 5ppm then you've no need to do a water change. Just topped up for evaporation. Unfortunately the hornwort in the tank had rather taken hold and it was looking messy. So Ian had a fairly drastic prune of it this weekend. On Sunday night I noticed poor Angelis was gasping again and not swimming very strongly, thought OK his time has come, been expecting it for a little while, decided to give him a day or two, see if he perks up, and if not I'd put him out of his misery. Came home from work last night and he was looking a tiny bit perkier although still gasping so I decided to give it one last ditch attempt to bring him back round. Checked the levels in the tank, got 1ppm of ammonia
The plants must have been doing so much filtration that removing a chunk has effectivley started a mini cycle. properly annoyed that I didn't think about that before, was expecting an algae bloom but not a cycle. So did a massive water change last night, did a little filter maintenance to make sure they're running well and just got to keep my fingers crossed.Think it's the end for poor Angelis though, he's had such an unlucky life the poor thing, seems every disaster we've had he's been involved in it.
Maybe the cats had it in for him. Someone on the outside paid them to get to him on the inside. Conspiracy theories. Your fish was spy and his cover was finally blown.
