Medication works!

I am happy to report that applications of the appropriate medication to both tanks have caused lessening of symptoms in all my fish - the panda cories are much livelier and no longer have visible parasites attached to their fins! The Parasite Guard made my water green for a few hours but that seems to have mostly dissipated. I'm still planning a second dose according to package directions, don't want to end up breeding any resistant colonies of pests. :P I'm also not going to try dosing my K+traces while I'm medicating, I don't know enough to know whether or not they might react together!

I'm finding it interesting that my H. difformis is growing so much differently for me now than when I had a lone T12 bulb above this tank. (Big surprise, right? LOL) Before, it was growing like a tree (see earlier posts), now it thinks it's a ground cover:


I also have a picture of the algae that's mildly bothering me:


Also no problems with the driftwood from the Cozy Clownfish shop, whether that's because it's a piece marketed for aquariums or because I boiled it before putting it in, I'm just glad I don't have to add "strange things growing on newly added driftwood" to my list of concerns.