Today was disappointingly uneventful, aside from the fact that my small school of Gillmen started repeating certain words back to me early this morning. It was a startling transformation, actually… I cleaned the tank, which had started to grow filthy overnight, fed them and raised the temperature in the tank to provide adequate care for the little freaks. I tried saying "Hello" and "Fish" to them but was rewarded only by more of their gibberish.

Suddenly, after about ten minutes of attempted communication, a floodgate opened and the Gillmen started talking back to me, repeating some words. Even words that I had never spoken to them previously, like "Baby", "Stupid" and "Seaman" were now being bounced back to me every time I spoke them to any of the four Gillmen.

Unfortunately, though I tried throughout the day, I have yet to get them to string together the words they have learned, which also include "Hello," "Hi," "Hey," and "Night." I fed them again at about 10:00pm and called it a day.

I hope that tomorrow will bring new revelations in my research of these strange aberrations of nature.