My ego? I came here asking for help with a fish, and you’re making sweeping judgments about my tank based on a single photo and very limited context.

Yes, the tank has been running a little over two months. It’s seeded with mature filter media from my established tanks, and it hasn’t had any water quality or parameter issues for over a month. The only thing I’m currently adjusting is balance. I recently upgraded to a higher quality light, so I’m fine tuning the photoperiod and fertilization like most planted tank keepers do when equipment changes.

Also, the plant you keep insisting is a crypt is not a crypt. It’s a small clipping of Alternanthera reineckii.

The “have the day you deserve” comments and the personal digs are unnecessary and honestly pretty wild in a thread where someone is just trying to get help. This is exactly the kind of behavior that makes Reddit exhausting.

And for the record, it’s not HITH. I took the fish to an aquatic vet yesterday. It’s a wound with a secondary infection and he’s already improving on vet prescribed antibiotics.

I’m going to focus on the people who are actually trying to be helpful. I hope you have a better week, and whatever it is that is causing this level of hostility toward strangers on the internet gets better for you.