Water Purification

Today's big accomplishment: Between editing, phone calls and e-mania, I cleaned the aquarium, managing to do so without removing the tropical fish--though I probably terrorized them a bit. I added some blue gravel and a new plant (plastic, but highly realistic), and "fished" out as much gunk as I could. Then I changed the filter. The tank is now a crystalline box of tropical blue, like some rare, enormous jewel. The pink, iridescent tetras are playing tag. All is now right in their world.

Resolved: never to let their artificial Amazon turn into such a cesspool again.