I think I just found the remains of Fido.

I realised this morning that I hadn’t seen him in a few days… which shows two things: how used I am to not seeing him, because he hides so well, and how little time I have actively spent looking at the fish recently.

I noticed this weird ball of gloop behind a bit of wood. I fished it out. I am still not 100% positive that it was Fido, rather than some food that had weirdly decided to grow rather than just disintegrate, but I think that’s actually mostly wishful thinking.

I don’t know why he died, obviously. I guess he was a bit old, in fish terms, and maybe didn’t cope so well with the heat over summer. I also don’t know why his body did the weird growing-stuff thing, rather than being et – it wasn’t that inaccessible – it was white/grey, fuzzy, yucky stuff.

I am mournful. Two of the most distinctive fish, gone.