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Guns are dangerous kids!!

Trying to get back into uploading more often

Penny for your thoughts, anyone? I would occasionally browse through shred force stuff out of curiosity just to find bits of lore, fanart and other fans. I really like the show's concept and characters, while I find it kind of surprising that it has held up and is still receiving attention

I also noticed a certain discord server for this fandom (I believe others were recommending it). Assuming it's still active and if anyone has the link to it, I'd love to join

#shred force

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

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Periodic Table Stamps - Halogens

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Also ty for 50+ notes on my previous post, I really appreciate it!! Didn't expect it to blow that much :D

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Periodic Table Stamps - Other Nonmetals

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aphotisms

the xenomorph from alien drawn in bacterial culture on agar plates

docxoxoxo

from "damn funny design imma drawin him" to "i love this bastard so much i want him choked & drowned"

redrew first skecth of my current fixation i made first before watching show just to see how ugly i made him then (didn't really got better but he got sloppier)