Last night it was the works Christmas party.  We’ve been to the Three Counties Hotel the last couple of years, but this year Frosty organised for us to go to the newly refurbished Saxtys Restaurant.  After that we went to the Booth for a few drinks and the on to Play nightclub.  There are some good photos on colleagues’ Facebook profiles.

I had a really good night and I’m glad I arranged today off work!

Went to Maidenhead Aquatics again today and bought a couple more Corydoras sterbai and to go with them a couple of Corydoras julii because the Corys like to be in little groups.  All the sand substrate has taken on a nibbled look now as they have been sifting through it for food.

They don’t seem to care much for the Variety Wafers sinking food, but the Odessa Barbs love those.  The Corys do seem to like the frozen food and the TetraPrima granules though so they are getting some food.

I bought some more plants too, in order to add some more shady hiding places for the fish.  The sand doesn’t offer much for the young roots to hang on to, so I added weight strips to stop the plants from floating to the surface.

Since last posting about White Spot, I have replaced the Black Phantom Tetras I lost, with Red Phantom Tetras.  I also now have a shoal of Cardinal Tetras and some Odessa Barbs and the last three Sterba’s Corydoras in the fish shop.

I have added some more real plants too, although some of them may not last too long because the Barbs are already eating them.  Once the shop has some more Corys I’ll buy three more because they like to live in groups.

Worcester racecourse (about an hour from here by car) was one of the many local areas badly flooded by rain recently.  Now thousands of fish stranded by the flood water are being stunned with electricity as part of efforts to rescue them. 

The Environment Agency has said that the oxygen levels have been dropping out of the water quickly so the fish would die if they were not helped now. Electricity is passed through the water before the fish are collected in nets and tanks to be stored until they can be put back in the water later.

Meanwhile, the council is using a Worcester firm that specialises in air pollution, to spray a neutralising mist over the flood water to get rid of the smell of drains (and the odd dead fish no doubt).

I recently added 6 x Rhomboocellatus Barb and 6 x Black Phantom Tetra to my tank of 6 x Zebra Danios.

I noticed on Monday evening the new fish had white ’salt like’ spots on them.  Yesterday I was at Silverstone but I did manage to purchase a bottle of King British WS3 treatment on the way back home.  By the time I arrived home (midnight), the Barbs & Tetras had died.

I have removed the dead fish and carried out a large water change.  I’ve added a dose of King British WS3 treatment and will continue the medication for another 10 days.

The orginal Danios are all swimming about quite happily. Water conditions have remained at zero ammonia and zero nitrite and the temp is currently 27c.