Bad day to be a shrimp

I got two new plants today. I believe one is the small version of cardinal, I like it a lot. The other one I am not sure what type it is, but it smells really badly. I put those two plants in my puffer tank and put the ship in Bubble's tank.

I got a danio named Zimmerman from my girlfriend because he was beating up her Betta. Bubble spent the first 5min. that Zimmerman was in his tank chasing him, but eventually gave up and they are now just ignoring each other. I would kind of like to get some tetras for the tank, but I am worried Zimmerman will beat them up. I might have to get a small school of danios before I can get any tetras.

Bubble's new tank with ship and lots of anacharis that he likes to swim through


Zimmerman the fast moving danio

Now for the bad news. As soon as I got done planting the new plants I noticed that cinnamon was looking white. I was very worried and not sure what to do, but just left it alone. A few hours later he was dead...

We gave him a nice funeral and buried him in a new pond outside the dorm that hasn't been filled with water yet.

I did a 60%-70% water change and took the bad smelling plant out in hopes of saving the other two shrimps. However, its not looking good. Shrimpy is white and the other one appears to be turning white. The good news is that puffers don't seem to be affected by this.

I am guessing that whatever is causing the plant to smell bad killed my shrimps, I probably shouldn't have put that plant in my tank. I think that the plant might be a non-aquatic plant anyways so it will probably to back to the store. Too bad, it was a really nice looking plant.


The new tank look, notice the large empty space in the center of the tank?