So, Tommy and I went to buy some oto's... our purchase is currently displaying a very prominent stress strip but actually has a black body with possibly dragon scale colouration.
Nope He's colouring up nicely. Unfortunately we've just discovered we have camallanus worms(highly infectious) in 2 aquariums so they are probably all infected from where we've moved shrimp between aquariums. Luckily I have a stash of medicine and we should be able to treat it and I've also ordered a specialist wormer for camallanus worms but unfortunately our pretty sweet betta died. Not the new one but our very stupid pretty betta.
It's really annoying, apparently shrimp can be intermediate hosts but we think we got them from our backup lfs. As we've had a lot of fish from there die.