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prenbyw

Spoon in the shape of a fish. Carved from some Sycamore I found just outside Wivenhoe, Essex.

hinako-supremacy

op i love your fish so much i made it a png

they are now a school of fish

plaguedocboi

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

nephtactic

Some up-close loach action

aliquid-de-magis

who's a cute lil corndog???

ashenmind

sickdogs

jellyfish lifecycles piss me off a little bit

sickdogs

you don't have to do that. you can just not do that

eddieintheocean

:D they can do more :D (x)

magicratfingers

they what

shinyjolteon

im gonna cry this person is so sweet to their fish

shrimpin-aint-easy

BUG 🦞 BUG

blaurascon

i reblogged this last night but i have since been reminded of one of my favorite pairs of socks. i still have no idea what this is supposed to mean. please enjoy

ANIMAL 🦀 ANIMAL

Happy gars 🐟

even more land fish

Salmon Pendant 14k Gold, laser engraved and hand finished, 1"x1"

Wesley Wyse

allyalbonart

Smaller fish such as the neon tetra particularly like shoaling around deer with bigger antlers. It’s a good sign of prowess to have a large group hanging around.