???? ☠️☠️☠️ Deadly Orange Algae Overwhelms My Aquarium & Kills My Fish and Snails - EP #11: TANK TAL

In today's video, we check in on the fish and snails living in my 10 gallon kitchen counter castle kingdom... and sadly, tragedy strikes the aquarium once again, taking out four of my beloved inhabitants.

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In last week's episode of TANK TALES, I spotted a deformed guppy swimming amongst the rest of my fry. Good news is, almost a week later, he seems to be hanging in there!

And for more good news, the rest of the fish and snails in my original kitchen counter aquarium are doing well also. They seem to love their new castle habitat, as I've spotted the catfish, the guppy and the tetras swimming in and out of the castle doors and windows on multiple occasions.

Even the snails have found some joy crawling up and down the castle walls, sucking them free of algae and left over food particles!

Back in my guppy fry aquarium, I've replaced the live aquatic plants that were originally in the tank with two large plastic plants and a few natural stones – so the fry would have at least a few places to rest and hide inside their small 10 gallon glass aquarium.

Finally, I've moved my live aquatic plants from the guppy fry aquarium to the third 10 gallon aquarium in my living room.

I made a huge mistake using regular potting soil as the substrate for my live plants, but I'm going to leave them where they are, for the time being, as I don't want to stress out and kill the plants by trying to re-pot them again so soon.

So for now, the live plants are going to live in this aquarium. I'm leaving the light on pretty much 24/7 and I've poured in a small amount of API Leaf Zone in order to give the plants their best chance at growing healthy and continuing to live.

While things have been looking good recently, about a week after I last cleaned the Castle Kingdom, a strange orange algae suddenly appeared inside the tank... and that very same day, I woke to find one of my original orange guppies floating at the top of the tank.

Then, a short time later, my second orange guppy was found, floating upside down and stuck in one of the plastic plants. He too was now dead!

Not only had my two favorite fish died, but my snails were acting funny as well. On the same day my second orange guppy died, I noticed that both of my blue snails weren't moving.

Now, this isn't entirely unheard of for my snails. Sometimes they do crawl inside their shells and sleep for a little bit. But most of the time, they are pretty active – crawling around the tank and sucking up any food or waste that they can find.

But on this particular day, both snails were just sitting there.

I tried to prod them a little bit to see if they'd move or come out of their shells, but when I received no response, I decided to just leave them there and come back the next day to see if they had moved.

To my surprise, the next day, when I went to check on the snails, one of them had moved! He was now hanging out in the top left corner of the aquarium. He was still inside his shell, but he had obviously moved!

The other snail, however, was exactly where he had been the day before. No movement whatsoever.

So, I left the snails where the were and came back the next day to check on them once again. This time, the snail that had moved to the top of the tank was now back down at the bottom... and back in almost the same position he had been two days prior – sitting on the bottom of the aquarium and curled up inside his shell, not moving.

The second blue snail was still in his same position. It had been three total days now and he had not moved an inch. Plus, I could smell a foul oder coming from the fish tank.

I reached my hand inside and pulled out my little blue snail. He smelled horrible, but I still couldn't tell if he was alive or dead. So, I pulled him out of the aquarium and put him in a plastic tupperware container filled with water – hoping that if he did move, I would be able to more easily spot his signs of life.

But sadly, snail #1 never came back to life. After three more days of non-movement in the tupperware container, I finally gave up on him.

And even worse, snail #2 perished shortly thereafter. He too just curled up inside his shell, sank to the bottom of the aquarium and never moved again.

But I couldn't focus on the death of my Castle Kingdom inhabitants for too long... because I had a big move coming up soon. A move that would require both me and my plant and animal TANK TALE companions to move more than two kilometers away.

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