Hi Sue,
Thanks for that. His symptoms were absolute textbook, and he went quite quickly, which I am glad about as I had read that it can take up to a year before they finally die of the virus.
Yes, you're absolutely right....Rafe is of course, a showpiece fish, how could I slight him like that?
I think probably because it's still in my mind that he will have this tank when I (eventually) get my new one, that I was wondering what I could maybe get that he would rub along ok with.
My tank is all out of sorts with how it started and I was just thinking if there is anything I could add to it that might bring it back a little more balanced....I don't really know what I am thinking, I'm just really sad I've lost Flockhart, I guess. He was a cool guy
The tank is a 60L Marina with some gravel, some sand, loads of plants, (which I have just thinned out quite a bit), some rock structures and Rafe, 6 pepper cories, 4 panda cories, 2 otos, 2 male guppies, 1 coral platy and about a dozen or so blue marble platies (the majority of which are going to my LFS on Friday).
I definitely want to get 2 more pandas to bring my shoal to 6 and 4 more otos to bring their number up to 6 as well.
I wondered about maybe some more guppies as they sometimes square up to one another, probably because there are just the 2 of them now or some different platies....I probably haven't got room for that though, have I?
What do you think, Sue? My head hurts