#reefed

[catnoli]

thunderstorm shark ⛈️ this is a sticker reward for my kofi members! if you joined in april, youll get it in may ☔️🌈

[samimarkart]

silly thing for Valentine’s Day!

[xxdrowninglessonsxx]

crochet aquarium

[fadbucker]

breaking news: (wait for it)

"walking" coral discovered!

ohh...look at it go...

[zinyli]

Final Days of fish february !! You can now get the original paintings on my Ko-Fi if you are interested !

[hellsitegenetics]

pls do the lyrics of DNA. by Kendrick Lamar

It would be so funny

Bc you do DNA so y'know

String identified: gtgtgtgtatgtatAatcgtaaacAgtaaAgtttgatAatctacatccttattaaatctattatTaTtattttTtatgtgtgtgtatcatAgtgtcAgtagttattAgtgttatAtagatagaatatagattatgaaCtttttataaaatcAatatctAatctagAactttagaggttttattttgTaatccttgaaatcaatataagaaaaAaAtattcctcgaacttattaAttcattatAgtatcattActattaAatattcaAttcAaatgaatcaTaatattttttagtatgtatAtatataaagtgAcaAcagtatgtatAattacTaacctagtatgtatAaTtagatttatccaaagTtggaatccatttattatttAttatAaaatTttatgtaatAtacttagtgaaaaGaaatatcatactttatgatgagagaaaatgtcaaatatagtcaaagaaattctaaatcatacatatcattcttattataTattttatctagtatgttaatttatatttatctatatcgttatcgttttaatTtctgaatGaatgaatactttttatA

Closest match: Myripristis murdjan genome assembly, chromosome: 24 Common name: Pinecone Soldierfish

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[fish-daily]

can you do a whitetip reef shark?

fish 332 - whitetip reef shark

[gottastim]

polo_reef on ig

[korraofthereef]

I don’t think yall understand how fucking unstoppable Jinx and Ekko are. Put the two of them in a room together and they created a miniature version of Hextech within, like, a month give or take. Jayce had a rune on the hextech crystal to build the entire foundation of his creations off of, meanwhile Ekko gathered shards of nothing that were used 7 years ago.

Also, the fact that Piltover would have completely lost the battle if it weren’t for the two of them convincing the undercity to attack while also creating a a fucking hot air balloon-wind turbine-pirate ship thing in a days work.

Mind blowing.

They had to be enemies or else there would be no Arcane to watch

[necrobatdyke]

The moms in Twisted Wonderland are so beautiful and so uniquely designed. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!!

Lesbian Twst Fans we are winning with them.

Edit: Forgot her

[catnoli]

sunset shark 🌅 this is a sticker reward for my kofi members! if you joined in april, youll get it in may ☔️🌈

[hyydraworks]

Reef shark babies with the grey glaze I love yet will never cease to pinhole on me, are still available.

[reasonsforhope]

"If you're hoping that reef-restoring coral larvae will settle down in damaged reefs, you can't just sit around and wait for it to happen. You have to get out there and entice the larvae, which is exactly what a new algae-based gel is designed to do.

While we may think of coral reefs' "skeletons" as being composed solely of calcium carbonate produced by coral polyps, much of the material is in fact generated by what are known as crustose coralline algae.

Along with contributing greatly to the structural integrity of reefs, the algae-produced calcium carbonate also serves as a home to planktonic coral larvae. Once those formerly free-swimming organisms settle in and become polyps, they start producing reef-building calcium of their own.

It's a good arrangement for the coral, but it also benefits the algae.

Not only does the reef itself provide the algae with protection from the elements, the coral polyps also emit ammonia which the algae feed upon. It is therefore in the algae's best interest to entice any coral larvae that may be swimming past in the water column. In order to do so, the algae release metabolite chemicals that attract the larvae.

Led by Dr. Daniel Wangpraseurt, scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography have now incorporated those metabolites into a gel that can be applied to degraded coral reefs. Called SNAP-X, the substance reportedly boosts coral larval settlement by up to 20 times as compared to untreated surfaces.

If the algae metabolites were just applied to the coral on their own, they would soon dissipate in the water, leaving the coral larvae unable to follow them to their source. For that reason, the researchers started by encasing the chemical molecules in durable silica nanoparticles. Those particles were then suspended within a biocompatible liquid blend of gelatin methacrylate and polyethylene glycol diacrylate.

When that liquid is sprayed or painted onto a surface – such as a piece of dead coral – then exposed to ultraviolet light, it polymerizes into a hydrogel form. That gel is capable of clinging to the surface for up to one month while immersed in flowing water, gradually releasing its larvae-attracting nanoparticles as it does so.

Initial lab tests showed that application of SNAP-X resulted in a six-fold increase in larval settlement. Subsequent tests that more accurately simulated the water flow on coral reefs, however, produced the 20-times figure.

It should be noted that all of the tests conducted so far have involved a single type of coral, but Wangpraseurt believes the technology should work on other species with a few tweaks.

"I think this material is a breakthrough that can hopefully make a big contribution to coral restoration," he says. "Biomedical scientists have spent a lot of time developing nanomaterials as drug carriers, and here we were able to apply some of that knowledge to marine restoration."

A paper on the research was recently published in the journal Trends in Biotechnology."

-via New Atlas, May 26, 2025

[oddarette]

Huh, I don't think I ever posted all my ocean manatees together. Well, here they are :)

[magp1e-starl1ght]

there are 3 types of shark

“Yea that’s a shark”, “what in the hell”, and “:3”

do you see the vision