Carnage

Salvador is dead. Pierrot is dead. The likely reason, according to the men in the aquarist shop is that Minnie killed Pierrot. She didn't seem a bully to me, but then perhaps her 'playful' chasing games were not at all what they seemed. We found Pierrot under a rock on Friday night - it was really sad.

Salvador, on the other hand, has completely vanished - likely eaten by a pistol shrimp. These desperate times called for desperate measures. Brutus was sent to Biorbopolis II where he has settled in with a new tank mate - a fire shrimp named Diego. We changed some of the water in Biorbopolis and shifted the rocks about a bit. The elusive pistol shrimp remains elusive. We have never seen him or her, but it is the only reason we can attribute to the sudden, sad death of Salvador or even, perhaps, Pierrot. However, there is a small cave in one of the pieces of rock in the tank, which goes back quite a way. Perhaps the pistol shrimp lives in there. We have food with which we will attempt to lure him out. I'm not sure what we will do with him after that, though.

Minnie has been behaving. We are keeping a close eye on her. She, too, has a new tank mate who replaces Pierrot. Lola is an orange striped clownfish and is bigger than Minnie. She has been put into the tank as a trial, to see if Minnie and she will get along. They have a week to form a tolerance of one another, and if it goes wrong, Lola will go back to the shop. But all seems well. Lola and Minnie are ignoring one another which, although seems a bit antisocial, is better than the bullying antics that Minnie engaged in with Pierrot.

For now all is calm. After three months of peace, everything seemed to come to a head over the course of a week. Hopefully Biorbopolis will return to a social, stable community once more.....