P L A N T S

Hi my name is Knave and I have too many worms

[jasonlowder]

Snail

[snailcare]

imma let u finish but

every snail is the most beautiful snail in the world

[snailcare]

this is queenie, the smallest snail that currently lives with me. queenie is very tiny and can often be found asleep on another snail’s shell. 💓

[chibimonkey]

One of the triops digging the new house

@hella-free-space

[hdot-mokoriri]

muscular foot and mouth

足と口

[iantojonesthebetta]

She yodels. <3

But, seriously, I love Ladybug’s wild colours. She is just so sweet and big and lovely.

[nyquilnap]

[runcibility]

One of the things Micrantheum does is break off little shoots into the water in the hopes that it will take root elsewhere. So, what doesn’t immediately end up going into the overflow filter floats around until it does. I like to take these shoots and embed them into small pieces of cholla wood that I’ve stuffed with root tabs. It gives it something to anchor to that isn’t just substrate - and it looks cool, too.

[ablogforbettas]

my snail made a boat out of a leaf and I’m very impressed.

[theunicornspeaks]

@vulned

[villanelleneedsahug]

Snoat

[fishhhhhhh]

Searching for another continent!

[snailcare]

hello from me and romeo the snail!!

[aquaexe]

heres my snail bumping his head against a rock and then deciding “oh while im here might as well snack”

[cassidyrose144-deactivated20230]

this cuttlefish was NOT happy about this starfish trying to touch him

[bogleech]

they shouldn’t be! Most starfish are predators and it would’ve eaten them if they were sick, injured or trapped!

[abstractobject]

It’s 1am and I’m finding out that starfish are predators.

[bogleech]

here are some more things about that:

They don’t have teeth or jaws *in their mouths*, so the most common starfish feeding method is to simply cover their prey, usually a clam or a snail or something else very slow, and flip their own stomach inside-out to smother and digest the prey externally.

I specify “in their mouths” because in some starfish the entire body surface is blanketed in extremely tiny jaw-like structures, sometimes thousands of them. These can be purely defensive or they can be a means of making the starfish “sticky” to small prey such as shrimp.

While most sea stars simply rely on eating things slower than themselves - sometimes including healthy, but sleeping fish - there are also stars who form an ambush trap ike this. Small animals try to hide under this nice cave and then the starfish clamps down on them to do the stomach trick.

Also this isn’t related to them killing things but most sea stars have fully functioning eyes, almost invisibly tiny, at the end of each arm.

[snailcare]

Snail tank examples? What size do you recommend for a pair of cornu aspersum?

hi! my snails are cornu asperum too :’) i’m not sure if you saw my big snail guide thing, but it has some advice (https://snailcare.tumblr.com/post/162848172321/hello-do-you-have-any-advice-for-a-first-time) and here’s a picture of my tank set-up (https://snailcare.tumblr.com/post/162927001056/my-boyfriend-wanted-to-take-some-pictures-while-i)

i recommend a ten gallon tank!! i also have a terracotta pot, aquarium decor, a water dish, plants, and more! there’s more info in both of those posts, if you have any other questions, send me a question! hope this helped!

[fishplant]

This is Eggplant!! She is… so full of wiggles

[pet-of-subs]

She look so sad in the first picture 😢 she seems so much happier with you!!

[fishhhhhhh]

EGG.PLANT.

[welcometoyouredoom]

[snailcare]

me and The Guys on a friday night

[ktcmoop]

snapple

[snailcare]

i was out for most of the day today, and i came home to find one of my slimy children sitting on the empty food dish, patiently waiting for food to arrive. it was so sad, i wonder how long they were sitting there!! so i put some sweet potato and carrot slices onto the dish, and when i came back in a few minutes later, he was already munching away. such a good snail. i love snails. the end.