Cuttlefish have such an incredible capacity for mimicry that isn’t talked about enough. Not only can they pretend to be a different sex in order to get sneaky matings with females who are already being guarded by a male, and change their skin color for camouflage, now they’re apparently pretending to be crabs.
What’s interesting is that when I went to look up pharoah cuttlefish mimicry, the only result I got was this behavior that potentially looks like hermit crab mimicry (the paper on it wouldn’t confirm for sure that’s what the behavior was, just that it seems likely) I couldn’t find evidence of cuttlefish mimicking any other species. So it’s just hermit crabs, I guess.
out of every universe there is i had to live in the one without magic and superpowers
yea but this one has dippin dots
sciencey things that are wild about this universe
– our life sustenance falls from the sky? and floats when cold??? making it this magical perfect substance????
– dude do you KNOW how rare multicellular life is like earth went on FOREVER with single celled guys and one day a mitochondria took residence in one and neither of them died and it got symbiotic. that shits RARE my guy, scientists think it only happened ONCE. EVER. the odds were huge and yet here we aren’t, it was such a great move the whole earth is covered in multicellular organisms now. we’re miracle babies, every last one of us
– also? u talking superpowers? are you aware of how superpowery you are?? your teeth and jaw are strong enough to crack your own jaw but your nerves are so sensitive it doesn’t get close. your brain works a million miles a minute to take in and store information and you don’t even realize, as it seems effortless. you have this thing called blindsight, where your brain sends the optical image to the alarm center of your brain before it sends it to the image processing center, which basically means if something’s hurtling towards you you can react Before you even know what you’re seeing. WILD. (its called blindsight bc it allows some blind people to “see” btw. but its EVERYONE its so crazy). also what the fuck is smell??? ya got this organ that takes in air, processes it, and you can basically differentiate the minute compounds of the molecules in the air and tell whats In It, often between like an atom’s difference. we heal ourselves when injured, we carefully balance thousands of motions and actions to keep ourselves balanced, aware, and alive, we can communicate to each other using facial positions (and LET’S not even talk about LANGUAGE) and we’re the culmination of thousands of tiny bacteria guys. AND we can make a new one in less than a year. AND we can properly feed it with a ridiculous recipe that scientists still don’t know all the ingredients. DUDE. we’re fucking WILD.
i got a bit carried away but the point is there’s tons of super stuff, including dipping dots, we just don’t notice it bc we’re used to it. could have made another point about the internet and how were living in the future bc HOLY JESUS but
Hello! I was wondering if maybe you or followers of yours would like to take a look at my betta fish? he’s a paradise male that i got just yesterday (i saved him from one of those gross petco carrier cups) and though he’s doing very well in his ten gallon tank (it’s filtered and heated and the temp stays between 79-80F) and though he’s doing incredibly well and clearly is enjoying himself exploring his environment and has even eaten a few pellets, I’m a little worried about his fins. Of course I can’t expect top quality fish from petco, but i’m having trouble determining if his fins are either just a little rough around the edges or if there’s something I need to be doing to make sure he doesn’t have something like fin rot or something else wrong with them. Maybe I’m just being paranoid fish dad? Either way, if you or any of your followers could offer any advice, that’d be greatly appreciated.
No worries! We (my followers and I) like to help 🙂
Is the white-ish edge to the tail fin, seen mostly in the second photo, just the lighting? But other than that (and if indeed it is just the lightening/coloring, it’s perfectly fine), he looks healthy to me. The not-quite-even edge to the fins is perfectly normal! What you’ll want to look for, as far as fin health concerns go, is really ragged, torn shreds in the tail or any white fuzz or white spots.
You have him in a very, very good environment. Keep the water especially clean for the next week or so, and you should see his fins improve. If they get worse, you have a problem, but there’s no fin problem that’ll kill him in a week of waiting to see. Besides, if he does have a fin problem from being in the cup, a lot of them can be cured by simply keeping the water very clean.
Also, that plant in the background of the last photo is a Java fern. It needs to be tied to something solid or be left to float, they die if the rhizome (solid brown bit that the leaves and roots are anchored to) is buried for too long. They usually grow on driftwood or stone.
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