I think it was probably from the stress of the bad water those weeks ago. Apparently Marcus is enjoying being alone, but Kat is considering another playmate for him, even thought she’s having a pretty bad time with fish. This time she thinks she’ll go with the name Dionysus, because – apparently – Marcus claimed him in his ancestry. As you do.

I think I will euthanase Dropsy Gourami tonight. He’s lost some scales, and just isn’t going to get better.

I’ve named two of the cloaches – at least, there are two names that apply to whichever cloaches happen to be staring out from under the rock at any one time: Stadtler and Waldorf. Those were the names of the two Muppets who would sit in a box a the theatre and make rude comments about how bad everything was on the show, and that’s exactly what it looks like the cloaches are doing, when they stick their noses out and watch the rest of the tank. I wonder if it is always the same two, while the other lies snug on his ledge in the cave. No way of knowing.