Fissi!

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💗 Mermaid Dreams 💙

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Flamingo tongue snails at Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary are fashion icons. 

They wore leopard print before it was trendy! 

The patterns themselves aren’t actually on the snail’s shell. Instead, the snail covers its white shell with a live tissue, which bears its distinctive color and markings. 

(Photo: Paige Gill/NOAA)

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Fissi viiiiieeeel!

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“What form she pleased each thing would take, that e’re she did behold.”  Color process illustration by Warwick Goble for The Book of Fairy Poetry by Dora Owen, published in 1920.

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Meet Octavio our newest Giant Pacific Octopus. He is very interactive and likes to hang out in the front of the exhibit. Which is great because our guests can see him!

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How can an octopus be so colorful? 🐙 🌈

Many cephalopods have special cells in their skin tissue called chromatophores, which enable them to change color rapidly. A part of their neuromuscular system, these cells receive signals from the environment than an octopus can use to inform color change. Chromatophores can help octopodes like this one in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary blend in with their surroundings or flash a warning to predators! 

(Photo: NURC/UNCW/NOAA)

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Once Upon A Time This Fish Was Passed Over Because He Was Ugly And Doomed To Live In A Mason Jar:

Four months, a heated, filtered, planted 5.5 tank, a lot of blood worms and regular water checks later:

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dreamy the octopus (douglas)

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