Those curious, brown scum dots are back.

We nearly cleaned the sides of the tank Thursday before the Littles piped up to leave it be: “With days left before the election, let our scum drive the point home. We’ll live with it. Probably.”

We put the paper towels down. Smart fish.

To highlight water-quality issues with the Androscoggin River, the Sun Journal plunked five goldfish in a tank of water from the Androscoggin and named them after the candidates for governor – the people with the power to make change. To watch the govfish cam, visit sunjournal.com.