friendly reminder that, if you take proper care of your eels and keep them in a big tank with lots of hiding places, they will never feel the need to hide in the sand
instead, theyâll either sit at the front of the tank and wait for you to walk in the room, or theyâll all noodle out of the woodwork they were napping in when they find out youâre there
eels will only bury in the sand if theyâre scared or threatened and have nowhere else to hide. thanks for coming to my ted talk
Itâs true for the salty variety too! More hiding places means you actually get to see their cute little faces more!
*Salps are basically gelatinous sea animals related to us vertebrates, but with no bones. They just have a notochord, or âbrain stemâ similar to what BECOMES our spine later in fetal development.
Anatomy like theirs is older than fish, almost as old as animal life itself.
Other species in their group lose the notochord and become sea squirts. This includes these guys who also went around tumblr:
Some salps during certain portions of their life cycle form a growing chain of clones:
Michael Zeigler photographed this mer-dog looking as confused as we are by its ancient distant cousin.
I actually have very fond memories of seeing them at the Monterey bay Aquarium as a kid. Theyâre very graceful, as the slowly and majestically swim directly into the glass.
The aquarium has one sunfish that has a shark-bite scar on it. A large scar from a shark that bit onto its body like it was a cookie, with tooth marks on both sides, and the sunfish is fine.Â