In addition to adding three teaspoons of instant ocean per gallon, I've also
added three teaspoons of calcium chloride "ice melting" pellets to the tank.
These I bought at the hardward store. They're marketed for melting ice and
snow on sidewalks and driveways, but just a little will bring the carbonate
hardness way up.
The mummichog look really healthy and colorful, except for some lesions on
their backs. These, I think, don't have anything to do with the parasites
and are probably from the spawning males beating up on each other.
The spawning mummichogs are really a colorful fish. The bright blue-green
dots they have on their sides remind me of blue spotted sunfish.
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