...and here we go again. This time, it's the long, healthy-appetited adoptee with the shortened gills. Colouring not quite as vibrant as the others this morning (even the other adoptees, whose colour was never as vibrant as my existing two's), panting, a little 'floaty', spine colour fading, belly whitening, ?dropsied scales, eyes protruding, not eating.
Rather than incur any delays, swift removal on noticing symptom onset into the hospital tank * with the Maracyn-2 I'd managed to acquire (still in-date) - no time to try the eSHa 2000 first. Fortunately, it was an easy task, so no undue stress induced. Hoping that, for once, swift action soon after symptom onset and before any decline has taken hold, plus no undue stress in the capturing process, might maximise the possibility of a positive outcome (unlike last time when delays were incurred in starting this treatment plus a difficult/stressful capture), but daren't lift my hopes too much. So far, so good, though; no immediate adverse experience this time - the cardinal a couple of weeks ago turned vertical in the medicated hospital tank before a swift demise.
*[Quarantine tank has the embers in it, so had to resort to the one other plastic tank. Plugged in the heater and ***flash***. Had to go and purchase a new heater from the nearest LFS
before resuming my plan.]