Okay, so it's been a few months since I updated. I don't know what the deal with my guppies is, but they keep getting dropsy and dying. According to my research, the main culprit of dropsy is poor water quality, but my tank is actually understocked, and the levels are all near zero right before I do my water change. There have been 2 times when my water quality wasn't perfect; once when I was in the field for 3 weeks straight and didn't get a chance to do a water change in that interval, and when my 3-year-old dumped the can of fish flakes into the tank. I'm down to 2 guppies from my original 6. :( For comparison, I've only lost one cory as a result of the "flake incident".

My tank is looking a little bare, since my cories are expert hiders during the day. Today, I hope to get some zebra danios and some more plants. Hopefully those guys aren't as prone to dropsy as guppies seem to be.

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Elly