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why are pipefish so ugly

YOU MADE HIM CRY. TAKE IT BACK!!!

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planning a trip to see my favorite person for the last time wasn't on the bingo card this year

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what the heck! she is so cute!

fun fact: all green banded gobies are female at birth and only change gender to form breeding pairs

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Cryptocentrus cinctus, better known as the yellow prawn goby or yellow watchman goby is a species of bottom dwelling goby fish native to the Western Pacific where it can be found at depths of 3.3 to 82ft (1 to 25m) along the bottoms of coastal bays and lagoons. These omnivorous fish primarily feed upon small invertebrates, carrion, detritus, and algae. They are notable for there keen eye sight and symbiotic relationship with certain species of pistol shrimp in the Alpheidae family, in particular the tiger pistol shrimp. In short the pistol shrimp constructs an elaborate burrow in which the pair reside, in exchange the goby helps to maintain the burrow, protect the nearly blind shrimp from predators, and brings the shrimp food. Reaching around 3.9 inches (10 cms) in length, the yellow watchman goby sports an elongated body, large fins, and a big head which wears an amusing perpetual frown. These fish vary greatly in coloration, ranging from brilliant yellow to gray and even brown forms or combinations of each coloring. This solid coloration provides a neutral backdrop that beautifully accentuates the spotted, jewel-like pattern that decorate its head and fins. Yellow watchman gobies are territorial and aggressive towards others of its own kind unless they form a mated pair. Said mated pair will share a burrow with one or more of there bonded shrimp counterparts, and on occasion a small species of porcelain crab Enosteoides lobatus. Under ideal conditions a yellow prawn goby may live up to 10 years.

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Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Pipefish

Olive’s wet beast fact: You’re probably thinking that these worm-on-a-string lookin ass creatures look like straightened seahorses. That’s bc they are part of the Syngnathidae family with Seahorses and Sea Dragons. Funky!

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

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I feel the most me

When I’m In between the trees

With your hand in mine

When soft wind makes its way

Through whispering pines that moan

And my lips hold back words

That mean the most

Songbirds play the soundtrack

Of how our love grows

And there is no other sound but that of

Tall grass blowing in the breeze

Soft seedlings are carried past

As we watch on and say

“how lovely and beautiful”

And my mind reflects an image of you

My lips graze your cheek

In an attempt to express

That which I cannot say

A million times over

I wonder if we could escape

To stay in this place, forever

Make new lives for ourselves

Apart from that which deems our love false

In this place there is the absence

Of watchful eyes and judgement

In this space we are liberated

By the moss between our toes

Crickets and toads

Will lull us to sleep

And my body will

Curve to match your shape

We will lead a peaceful existence

In the absence of those

who have something and nothing to say

How could a love like this be wrong,

When the sun grazes your cheek

As my lips have done a million times

And my heart feels that way?

When I am yours forever

And I am stuck to you

As roots are to the soil?

Flee to this life with me, please

So we can become one with the grass

That exists beneath our feet.

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Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii), family Sulidae, order Suliformes, Isla de la Plata, Ecuador

photograph by Libor Vaicenbacher

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BREAKING NEWS:

NOAA proposes national marine sanctuary in Papahānaumokuākea

Today, NOAA has released a draft proposal to designate a national marine sanctuary in the marine portions of Papahānaumokuākea. Home to the endangered Hawaiian monk seal, threatened green turtles and many species found nowhere else on earth, the complex and highly productive marine ecosystems of Papahānaumokuākea are significant contributors to the biological diversity of the ocean. 

Papahānaumokuākea is of great importance to Native Hawaiians, and Hawaiian culture is a foundational element in its management. It is also home to a variety of post-Western-contact historic resources, such as 19th-century commercial whaling shipwrecks and artifacts and those associated with World War II’s Battle of Midway.

The public is invited to comment on the sanctuary draft proposal through May 7, 2024.

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it really isnt fair to Endless Ocean Blue World to never grace the light of day again. Endless Ocean could do so much on these consoles. I miss them. Where else would I have a video game about being a diver where the plot included dracula vampires, sort-of-atlantis, forgotten amazonian submerged jungle ruins, aliens, and dragons

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yellow clown goby 🫶🔆