Photo Credits: Kaibab National Forest

With the ammonia rising, we knew we needed a water change. We pulled about 5 gallons out and put in approximately 4. We are prepping more water for use in the tank.

We also added the extra filter and added the Chemi-Pure filter bag. It claims to eliminate ammonia problems and level pH levels. We hope this helps stabilize things in the tank so we do not have to release the fish just yet.

The fish that we removed was/were the conjoined twins. I know there seems to be a subject-verb agreement issue in that sentence. Our view is that it was one egg. It hatched conjoined organisms. Do they count as one or two? Let the junior scientists debate that one.  One thing we are confident in is that they were not lost due to water conditions. The other fish are thriving in the same environment.

We still have one fish left in the net itself that seems to be struggling. It continues to swim in circles on its side, but it also still seems to be growing. We remain optimistic that it will continue to grow and will be able to be released into the tank in the near future.