#fi...fish

[prince--esque]

I am not immune to the eel

[prince--esque]

@dredgen-dumbass

[humansarespaceorcsforeal]

I need more scary space hazards that are based on sea creatures.

Giant Angler fish with lights that mimic the nearby space station.

Massive space jellies with the wreckage of ship caught in its drifting tentacles.

Space squid that have an ink that scrambles scanners and blots out the stars.

Just, creatures living out in the ether. I think space is more terrifying and wonderful that way.

[shyaringan]

f is for friends who do stuff together-

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[thesunxlx]

So long, and thanks for all the fish stickers

Reblog to help a small trans owned business out! 🐡

[zhjake]

The Yawn, big space fish dipping in and out of blinkspace, as big as a moon and mostly ambivalent to the goings on of humanity, largely vibes-based lifeform From our Lancer module: A Wake Writ in Void

[mitchievousness]

started reading fish scamming system disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish 🐟💕

[ID: A digital drawing of Li Yu and Mu Tianchi from DTBPF. Mu Tianchi and Li Yu are facing each other, both with eyes closed, blushing and sweating. Mu Tianchi is on the right with his mouth open and tongue out. There is an arrow above his head with the text "expecting his essence to be sucked". Li Yu is on the left in his black fish form, with his lips puckered. There is an arrow above the fish's head with the text "a fish". /End ID]

[of-fear-and-love]

The "coelacanth" from Monster on the Campus (1958)

[javierduffy]

different.

[prince--esque]

do U have a favorite fish?

MANY!!

*the only reason I won't include any cephalopods is bc they are technically mollusks and this post will prob be long as-is <o>

Scalloped hammerheads:

RAHHHHH SCALLOPED HAMMERHEADS <333 My favorite of hammerheads.

I love hammerheads in general for their look but something about scalloped hammerheads just....it's so good. They have my favorite head shape. Such a weird sentence.

They can live up to 30 years—females maturing at 15 years while males mature at 10—and weigh from 100-200 lbs (~45-90 kg). They typically grow to 6-12 ft (~2-4m). Big fishies!

Gestation periods normally last 8-12 months, and they give birth viviparously—so the eggs hatch inside the mother and are nourished in there until they're born.

Sadly though, like most hammerheads, scalloped hammerheads are considered critically endangered due to overfishing for their fins to make shark fin soup. It doesn't help that scalloped hammerheads are known to school with up to hundreds of their own, making many easier to be caught. Their reproduction is also too slow to repopulate the numbers that are missing. This is something that saddens me. Often. :')

But yeah, I love these sharks very dearly and am constantly hoping we get to learn more about their migratory patterns and other ways of life to further conservation efforts and keep 'em around.

(I had a scalloped hammerhead pin but i cannot find the beanie it's on for the life of me TT^TT but here is where i got it from.)

Several Eels:

EEEELS!! My slithery beloveds. Okay I'll choose uhhhh,,,4(ish!)

Moray eels - The poster children of eels! The most recognizable of 'em probably being the green moray eel.

They like to hide in rocks and coral formations and are relatively shy, not often leaving their dens to swim in open water. They are around 6ft (~2m) in length on average, but the largest species (slender giant morays) can grow up to 12ft (~4m)!

Morays also have this neat set of teeth in their throat called Pharyngeal jaws. When they open their mouths to catch their food, these teeth reach forward to securely grab the prey and drag it back into their throats. Lovely!!

Anyways have this moray post as a bonus bc i love it and it's a favorite.

Ribbon eels - TRANS 👏 EELS 👏. Originally there were thought to be 3 different types of ribbon eels. Turns out though they're all the same, just at different stages in their life!

All ribbon eels are born male, where they are black and yellow. As they mature though, they start to gain that blue and yellow pallete and begin to develop female organs! By the time the ribbon eel is entirely matured, they are now female and entirely yellow.

They are technically also morays, but they get their own little spotlight for how fabulous they look :)

Electric eels - THEY AREN'T!! They aren't 'true' eels! They are actually a type of knifefish!!

The first is an electric eel, and the second is a clown knife fish. They're called knife fish due to the lack of dorsal and caudal fins, only an extended anal fin on the underside of their bodies. Thus their shape! I'm still keeping the electric eel in this category though because it's cute and sneaky like that.

European conger eels - I love these dorks. So so much.

This no-thought-behind-its-eyes creature is the HEAVIEST EEL WE KNOW OF.

They can get up to 9 ft (~3m) long and the larger ones weigh up to 220 lbs (~100kg). 220 lbs of eel.

There may also be cases where they share dens with a lobster; the lobster will eat the conger's waste and extra food. But whenever the lobster molts and is vulnerable, the eel will typically just. Eat it. So. :/

Deep-sea sillies:

HAGFISH - I've held such a fascination towards hagfish since i first found out about them.

They are jawless fish. They still have a skull though. Oh but they have zero (0) vertebra? Of course.

When eaten, they coat themselves in icky slime that covers the attacker's gills to force the predator to spit them out.

This goo can also backfire and suffocate themselves. So what do they do? Turn themselves into a knot to brush that shit off!

????

They also turn themselves into these knots so that when they bite into chunks of carcass—they're scavengers btw—they are able to use the knot as extra force to help them pull the meat off easier.

???? You do you, I guess??? Bonkers fish, love them. Moving on.

Snaketooth fish - huh

Yeah, that large bit of skin underneath it is its stomach. It. Its pelvic fins aren't fused together so its stomach can just streeeetch. This 10 inch (~25 cm) fish is able to eat other fish twice its size and 10x its own weight. And it swallows its food whole. Crazy? Uh.

Well they also die from this. They lack the ability to digest some of their larger meals in time before it starts to rot in their gut, causing the buildup of gases from its prey to just...rupture the snaketooth's own stomach. And inflate the now-dead fish into rising to the surface.

Phenomenally absurd and wild, like many fish that live in the twilight zone and deeper. 10/10. Marvelous.

That's all my goofs. Honorable mentions go to: oarfish, thresher sharks, and pelican eels. Ty for reading! :D

[redrocketpanda]

Something that has been driving me insane about the credits are these sections with the fish so please bear with me whilst I do a mini deep dive (hehe) into fish discourse because YO, we need to talk about these fish!

Notice how at the beginning of the credits we actually have two white fish swimming along beside one another; one with bright turquoise eyes and the other with black.

A little while later the fish begin to circle each other and a droplet falls into the water between them. As the disturbance ripples out from the center, one of the fish dives deeper into the water and changes its colour to black; symbolizing Geto's change and descent into darkness

Then we have this heartbreakingly beautiful moment with Gojo and Geto:

I cannot stop thinking about how long Gojo watches the black fish for as it swims across the screen, whereas Geto's eyes are lowered the moment the white fish appears and he closes them as it swims past.

Gojo cannot bear to tear his eyes away, whilst Geto cannot bear to look

Throughout the credits, Gojo and Geto have been making their way towards each other through the pouring rain (or mostly sitting and waiting in Geto's case). At the end, they meet each other under a bridge and as they walk away together we see the fish a final time, swimming together again in a puddle formed by the heavy rain.

Geto walks on the left in the light, as the white fish swims close to his head, almost invisible in the brightness of the light. Whilst Gojo walks on the right in the shadow with the black fish swimming further away but still close by.

The fish speed after the two men before disappearing completely under the water just before the camera pans up and we watch as Gojo pulls Geto in for a hug as they walk away, before he's playfully shoved away by Geto.

There's a lot going on the credits (+ opening) that is absolutely killing me but man, these fish?! Breathtaking.

[humanoidhistory]

Japanese poster for Piranha (1978)

[qadmonster]

Ko-fi Dooble:

"If a sea-apple and a sea-cucumber are both animals, depict what you think is a sea prickly pear"

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[snail-creates]

Fish Bone Patch and Badges | kofi

[lazer-t]

Atlantic Tarpon for a $15 Ko-fi supporter

[zondearts]

Commission for Poem The Dragon (ko-fi)