My bet­ta died over the week­end. After my trip to Hong Kong, for which I left him a slow-release food tablet, he was nev­er the same. The tablet was bare­ly eat­en, and turned his water a very mud­dy colour and opac­i­ty. In the weeks since my return he stayed hid­den in his lit­tle shrub at the bot­tom of the bowl.

I named him Connor, after the main char­ac­ter in the Highlander series, because he was very much a fight­ing fish, and “there can be only one” bet­ta in a bowl at a time.

Bronwen remind­ed me that the char­ac­ters in the Highlander series are immor­tals, who res­ur­rect after some time. And Connor MacLeod, being the immor­tal and his name­sake, should come back to life short­ly there­after.

So now, in the back of my head some­where, I expect to see Connor rein­car­nat­ed and swim­ming hap­pi­ly in the near­est body of water. Since I cleaned out his BiOrb, leav­ing in it only aquar­i­um rocks, that would be my Brita water jug. Good thing I don’t keep it in the fridge.