Small signs of recovery.

My attempt to breed pink (or yellow! or green!) pest snails ground to a halt when the tank became infested with a pest which ate all the snail eggs. Old snails were dying, but no new ones were hatching out. I cleared them out once, but the pests survived and thrived. Putting in fluke-killing poison did nothing.

I intended to pretty much clear the old tank out and start again, or maybe not start again, I didn't know. My health got even worse, so I put it off, feeding the few remaining snails only very occasionally, since I had no reason now to even care if they demolished the plants. The tank has squatted gloomily in a corner of the room for a year or so.

Today, I had another look at the tank and saw baby snails! I also can't see any pests. Even the nitrite levels are below their usual dark-pink 'instant death for fish' levels - the test tube is only faintly pink. I've added more filter start and shall leave the tank alone for another month or two.

Now all I have to do is find a glitter pen so I can write up the character sheet for the next game, where I will be playing Prettymage Sparklesocks (the name translated into elven, naturally)