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it’s time to do the sibling dance

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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

draconym

your summer camp shenanigans remind me of when we had a stick cult multiple years in a row which we had to keep shutting down

I need to hear about Stick Cult please

cathartidae

okay stick cult is FAR less insidious than it seems- but it's what stick cult stood for was the issue.

see, we generally have a rule that if you wanna pick up a stick, it has to be the length of or shorter than your elbow to the tip of your finger. which stick cult followed for a long time! they battled gently with sticks, or marched around with them, or built castles. it was a pretty good way for them to spend their breaktimes. sometimes we'd have a stick thrown into the coyote or fox enclosure, or theyd chant 'stick cult stick cult stick cult' too loud and we'd have to tell them off, but it was pretty okay for ~3 years. it got passed down from older kids to younger, etc.

all that was fine, until the Fire Nation Rock Cult attacked. see the rock cult was exactly the same as the stick cult- but with rocks. and we dont have a lot of big rocks on site, but we have a lot of gravel- and you can't really play fight with rocks the same as you can with sticks- but you can throw them. and rock cult was INSISTENT on usurping stick cult, to the point where we had multiple friendships end (for the day) due to it. we also got gravel in some kids eyes- it was a whole issue. then stick cult started picking up bigger sticks in retaliation and we had to stop the whole thing altogether

eventually (due to conservative parent complaints) the cults had to be ended. they lived on in spirit in rock castle & stick crew, who we eventually convinced to work together on building a large eagle sized bird nest on the decommissioned well.

it lives on in tales told from older sibling to younger, from counselor to counselor- supposedly, a real eagle used the nest on the well after they built it

draconym

A children's cult building a shrine of out of rocks and sticks to summon an eagle god would make a great Studio Ghibli movie

ochiody

day 3: promise/this is where my heart is

#wha spoilers #witch hat atelier spoilers

cocophee

Toph Beifong 💚

one of my favorite characters 👌😌

⚠️ Please do not repost! ⚠️

pukicho

Welcome to the gang. I'll give you your new gang name. Baby Beebo. That's your new gang name. We work hard but we play harder.

ysther

twt archive part 3/?

ysther

twt archive 6/?

omori (but flip flopped)

ysther

twt archive part 1/?

ysther

twt archive 13/?

omori sketches

charmzero

my thoughts will follow you into your dreams

#HERO NOOOOO #LOL

olecap

doodles

chegguss

Summer vacation

spaceyyboyy

just some miscellaneous doodles and thoughts about the little ghost heaaalllo

spaceyyboyy

Love your art! Your colors and soft lines are so nice. Since you asked for requests: I think the blue lake would look really good in your style. Maybe ghost sitting by the blue lake next to quirrel's nail? With or without quirrel, depending on how sad you wanna feel lmao. No pressure ofc, only draw if you feel like it. Toodles!