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@aquatictimes
reminder for newer fishkeepers:
as pretty as those minimalist aquascapes are, they aren’t always the best for the fish!
denser plantation is almost always better, especially if you own fish like bettas, tetras, or other fish that come from densely packed areas or are fish that need to hide!
This is Slouglas! He’s a lettuce sea slug I got at Reef-A-Palooza. I’ve wanted a nudibranch or slug for a long time, but most have very specific, hard to provide diets. Slouglas here just eats algae!
He has a very cool ability to save chloroplasts from the algae he eats, and store it in his skin. He then becomes photosynthetic! So he can get food from the algae he eats, and from the chloroplasts he saves. Nifty.
WORM TIME WORM TIME WORM TIME
Mutualistic pairs for an “Odd Couples” Valentine’s program at my work. (Why do so many of my big work projects revolve around Valentine’s programs?)
Also, by “sea bugs,” I obviously meant “gnathiid isopod larvae.”
The himan one is not as good as the rest
If you mean the mutualism between humans and honeyguides, I respectfully disagree. Human/honeyguide mutualism is one of the most sophisticated interspecies relationships in the animal kingdom.
While humans have domesticated many other animals for their labor, the honeyguide remains entirely wild while electing to partner up with humans. Both humans and honeyguides have each developed specific calls to signal to one another that they are on the hunt, and these calls greatly increase the likelihood of success. According to this paper:
The production of this sound increased the probability of being guided by a honeyguide from about 33 to 66% and the overall probability of thus finding a bees’ nest from 17 to 54%, as compared with other animal or human sounds of similar amplitude.
That’s fucking bonkers, you guys!!! There are people out there who over the course of human history have created a sound to communicate with birds, and the birds themselves have a Human Call they use to communicate with us. There is no other wild animal you can just make noises at and immediately communicate that you want it to come help you!!!
What’s more, many scientists consider this relationship more exploitative on the honeyguide’s end than on our end! That’s unprecendented!! These birds have essentially negotiated a trade deal with humanity!!!! This is the stuff of fantasy movies, except it’s real.
Here’s an article from The Guardian about the broader implications of this kind of relationship with wild animals. It’s a good read:
Apart from with our gut bacteria, we humans don’t really have any mutualistic relationships with other creatures. There is no special tune that we can sing to magically attract nearby hedgehogs into our gardens to feast on slugs. There will never be a special wink that fishermen can offer otters, encouraging them to catch fish that we might then de-bone for them, in return for some of the catch. The world is poorer for this.
just a reminder that with nothing but a smashed iPhone and gumption, i took a clear photograph of tetras.
Anatomy of the majestic snout of the seas ~
Ok so this is a bit of a read but I’m over the moon excited.
A few months ago I was on eBay looking at killifish eggs and I came across a listing for a type of killi I’ve never seen in the US before. It was only 15$ and free shipping for 30+ eggs, so you can bet my cheap ass bought those immediately. And i figured if it was a scam, I was only out 15$.
That’s the fish that made me risk it all 👆🏼 Anyways, the absolute latest date they were supposed to come was April 24th and of course, nothing came. I waited 2 weeks and still, nothing. So I emailed the guy and he apologized and gave me a refund. I was bummed but at least I wasn’t scammed.
Last week however!!!! The little dudes showed up!!! And they had come all the way from freaking RUSSIA. I checked the eggs and they all were eyed up! So I emailed the guy to let him know they came and they looked ready to hatch (even though they’re not supposed to be ready till August), and he told me to hatch them and to keep the money as an apology for them being late 😭
So Sunday night I put them in water and I woke up to 10 little wigglers!!!
My little Russian dirt baby. They’re so obscenely tiny. A little guy is in the red and his egg shell is in blue. There’s still quite a few eyed up eggs in the peat so I’m drying them and rebagging tonight to try again in a few weeks. So yeah, a probable scam was a complete success and there’s a man in Russia who owns my heart.
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Ordered some sketch rare fish eggs off eBay and even tho they arrived super late, I was able to hatch 10 little men.
Don’t panic if you see one of these guys swim by while diving. The American paddlefish [Polyodon spathula] has a diet consisting mainly of zooplankton, which they detect using highly sophisticates sensors in their enormous rostrums [or noses]. They’ve barely changed over the past 300 million years, and are harmless to humans. Images by Carter Warden.
Not only are ocean sunfish (Mola mola) the largest bony fish, but they also grow the most of any vertebrate - they grow to 60 million times their size from when they hatch! A typical growth rate for an ocean sunfish is 500g a day!
Googled what their larvae look like….neat
Images by David Johnson
Completely unrelated, but I wanted to show you these robots. Yes, these are not fish, these are robots - the future is now. Not to mention that they’re moving apparently randomly through a three-dimensional space, and not touching each other! That’s impressive.
More of these memes because I have No Self Control…
Please tell us more about how you got funding to remove harmful/invasive fish species out of a lacustrine ecosystem and stock native/beneficial species as part of a well-laid out restoration and management plan
Red Cherry Shrimp hard at work keeping the baby tear clean and tidy.
Like a transparent, watermelon-Jolly-Rancher-scented Stegosaurus with a Venus flytrap for a face, the lion’s mane nudibranch sea slug Melibe leonina is a lot of things—including one of the kelp forest’s most magical critters!
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Now the Dry Start Method is done.
I just need to spray every day and wait…
a little peek at some of my current setups, since i’ve been too busy to actively post lately. (bottom left with the doritos is a gif, try tapping it!)
craigory checking out a new pot in the 440, a gup grazing on algae, chip being very angry and green in the 125, clarence investigating a stinkbug, the baby angelfish herd in the 75 going bonkers over the pellet bag, and dennis + aristoteel investigating my fingers in the new eel-centric 40B. 👌 i’ve got a Pal™ stopping by tomorrow to see the lads, so there might be more pics after that.
