Today (monday here), the tank is crystal clear and the plants have grown many centimetres. It looks great and the fish are way more active again but I have lost another to dropsy :(

I have stuck with my water changes every 3 days despite having guests for the supposed Saturday night party start to arrive on Thursday and the last ones leave on Sunday afternoon.

I left the lights on all the tanks but covered the side that would get the most traffic so the fish felt more secure. I left the lights on so they couldn't get a sudden scare so easily. My son's girlfriend who started my guppy plague, made up signs for the tanks asking people not to touch and I explained to the few young children what would happen if they fed the fish or touched the tanks.

All went well and the fish even came through a juke box going for 18 hours which had been one of my concerns, the other being that someone might commandeer a power point belonging to a fish tank but all filters and heaters were still going next morning. A 6 year old boy saved my sanity Sunday morning by finding my "lost" camera for me - tucked under one of the fish tanks stands. At some point on Saturday night I must have assumed that was a safe place for it ;)

I really want to get a different filter for this tank unc;e but I can't at the moment. There is no more room for anything to come out the glass ledges that hold the cover.