We've had some death in the fishtank over the last couple of weeks. First to go was the fancy guppie, "No Spot." He was getting towards a year in age and that's about how long those little guys live, so we don't suspect foul play.

Then, two days ago, I found the large trumpet snail floating dead. I'm not sure how the snail lifecycle works... there were definitely dozens of baby trumpet snails at one point and every now and then I see one of them crawling around on the gravel, but for the most part all of the young snails seem to have disappeared. Perhaps they are building an amazing under-gravel colony that will rise up and take over the tank when the planets are aligned or something.

Anyway, as far as I can tell, the current population of the tank consists of two Corydoras julii, one Otocinclus, and six three-stripe african glass catfish. This icky-looking brown hair-like algae is also doing quite well, growing all over the top of my java moss. I think the java ferns are also finally growing, though they seem to have budded new plants (including root systems) right off the top of their leaves (??). Weird.