Nothing but good news today. The remaining cories are all acting fine. Eating and swimming normally. No sign of columnaris. Fed them and vacuumed the tank 20 minutes after, then did a 20% WC. Didn't add more salt since I had so heavily salted it yesterday. Keeping an eye on them.
The endlers and shrimp also arrived today! There were no DOA's and he gave me one extra of each just in case. He also packaged the shrimp with some java moss for their comfort, which was great.
I bought 3 black bars, 3 red striped, 3 silverados and 3 red chested. I got an extra black bar, I think. The black bar and silverados look P class to me, which is awesome. Pretty sure the red striped are all K class. No biggie, the breeder specializes in hybrids, so it's to be expected. I'm obviously not intending to breed since they're all male.
I then got a mix of 6 neo. shrimp with 2 extras. There are two yellow, one tangerine, three red, one wild-type, and one that is either chocolate or blue, hard to tell. When it was in the bag, it looked very blue. In the tank, it looks chocolate. We'll see as they age and settle in!
Here are some pics!
Acclimating the endlers. The ones that are super dark from above are the silverados.
Here they are checking things out.
They have amazing colors.
They are difficult to photograph because they are so quick. They are such agile, nimble fish.
Acclimating the shrimp. You can see the blue/chocolate one in the lower left. Looks really blue, doesn't it??
Here is the same shrimp looking quite chocolate. It's a mystery!
The tangerine boldly browsing the stump.
One of the reds with a flash of a yellow.
The shrimp and fish all immediately started browsing for food. The endlers are loving the detritus worms and are eating them up with gusto. I won't feed for a couple of days since they are enjoying algae and whatnot that has accumulated in the tank.