Ruby had seemed perfectly healthy until the day I woke up to find her floating belly-up. She was still alive, but wasn't responding to the guppies nipping at her.
Durango has been hanging out near the heater in funny vertical positions. I tried increasing the heat, but it didn't seem to help any. When he finally died, I wasn't surprised.
Cerberus had a damaged fin. I don't know how that happened, but it might have been caused at the time I was adding salt to his tank. I was kinda hoping it was the fish equivalent of a charlie-horse that would wear off... no such luck. Probably is my fault though.
I tested the water in each of my tanks and discovered that the two that lost their sharks had harder water than the others. Not much harder, but still noticeable. I looked up tank parameters for sharks and... yeah, that one is on me. It took a while to find a conversion between DH and GH and the rest, but that water wasn't good for those fish.
I softened the water for the remaining fish, although they seem far less bothered, but I'm out of test strips and I'm on a "diet" of buying aquarium products. I've been stress spending, and that's not okay.
Anyway, once next year comes, I'll buy puffers and sharks again, because I really enjoy both. But no spending before that.
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