i haven’t posted anything about my tanks in years so uh here’s my 10 and 20 gallon blackwater tanks theyre my favorite things in the world
they’re ~loosely~ south american and asian biotopes respectively.. in the 10 i have a school of ember tetras and a blue ram cichlid, and the 20 is home to a school of pearl danios and a bumblebee catfish. trying to make the 20 a little bit less blackwater and a little more clear hillstream but i don’t feel like another big overhaul just yet lmao
Gorgeous!
What kind of leaf is that in the 10g, the palm frond thing? Has it held up well?
Weird but true! In 1935, pregnancy tests exposed frogs to human pee to determine whether a woman was pregnant. This frog trade may have driven the emergence of a global chytrid pandemic that is causing frogs to become extinct today. Today is April Fools Day, but this is real science!
also I think they used to inject pee into rabbits and then kill them to see if the pee affected their organs.
Those are African clawed frogs. If you inject a female clawed frog with urine from a pregnant woman, it’ll lay eggs.
The reason they’re such a problem is because African clawed frogs are nearly immune to chytrid, so they can carry it and not be affected. After actual pregnancy tests were developed, all the labs dumped all their frogs, and those frogs (some of them infected with chytrid) got into rivers and spread the disease everywhere.
(also escapes and contamination from the pet hobby, but especially the lab frog thing)
you: the age of consent in japan is 13 me, an intellectual:
Age of consent is the age at which a person is legally considered able to consent to sex. It is NOT the age at which a person is considered an adult for sexual matters.
One of our cats is extremely hyperactive and nearly impossible for the vets to handle, so they gave us a sedative to feed to her the night before a visit.
This is our OTHER cat after he ate the drugged food because the hyper one didn’t fall for it.
i have had many urges…. but i have never booped her
luckily she’s a timid sweetheart and probably would just hide if i ever tried to boop her.
she’s only ever bitten me once! It hurt quite a bit but she doesn’t have anywhere close to the power needed to take off a finger.
Moray eels don’t crunch or slice. They have sharp, backward-pointing, needle-like teeth, meant to grab and hold until their pharyngeal jaws (tiny secret Alien-style throat jaws) can dart out, grab the food, and pull it down their throat.
It’s a similar idea to a snake- the bite is gonna hurt, and it’s gonna be hard to get all the teeth out of yourself if they don’t let go, but it’ll just be puncture marks without any real serious damage. It has to be a huge moray to cause any severe damage. One of multiple reasons why morays aren’t dangerous, that and their lack of aggression. If you don’t poke one in the face or stick your hand in one’s burrow, you won’t get bit.
that is true for most morays! however snowflakes evolved to eat mostly crustaceans and so they actually have small, cone-shaped teeth for crushing the exoskeletons of crabs and shrimp!
you can see her teeth alright in this gif
Ooh, cool! I haven’t seen snowflake teeth up close, just some others. Green morays in aquariums and something in Hawaii I didn’t manage to ID.
Yeah, that could probably do some serious damage if it was in the mouth of something much bigger. A smaller eel like Noodle, I’d think maybe some bruising if she hung on or bit down hard. Did she draw blood at all?
nah, just some unpleasant finger crushing. it hurt for a few days after but it didn’t leave a mark
I looked up a picture of a snowflake moray skull, and I found a news story about a diver who got his thumb bitten off by a moray eel.
The eel was six feet long, he’d regularly been feeding it while diving with it, and the food of choice was sausage. Apparently Scarface (eel) got ahold of his thumb while aiming for a sausage and either didn’t realize the mistake or didn’t care. Fortunately, the diver understood his mistake and did not go back to kill the eel later.
So apparently a six-foot moray does have the teeth and body force necessary to take off a finger. Also, you should not hand-feed large sea life with food that resembles fingers. Please do not.
i have had many urges…. but i have never booped her
luckily she’s a timid sweetheart and probably would just hide if i ever tried to boop her.
she’s only ever bitten me once! It hurt quite a bit but she doesn’t have anywhere close to the power needed to take off a finger.
Moray eels don’t crunch or slice. They have sharp, backward-pointing, needle-like teeth, meant to grab and hold until their pharyngeal jaws (tiny secret Alien-style throat jaws) can dart out, grab the food, and pull it down their throat.
It’s a similar idea to a snake- the bite is gonna hurt, and it’s gonna be hard to get all the teeth out of yourself if they don’t let go, but it’ll just be puncture marks without any real serious damage. It has to be a huge moray to cause any severe damage. One of multiple reasons why morays aren’t dangerous, that and their lack of aggression. If you don’t poke one in the face or stick your hand in one’s burrow, you won’t get bit.
that is true for most morays! however snowflakes evolved to eat mostly crustaceans and so they actually have small, cone-shaped teeth for crushing the exoskeletons of crabs and shrimp!
you can see her teeth alright in this gif
Ooh, cool! I haven’t seen snowflake teeth up close, just some others. Green morays in aquariums and something in Hawaii I didn’t manage to ID.
Yeah, that could probably do some serious damage if it was in the mouth of something much bigger. A smaller eel like Noodle, I’d think maybe some bruising if she hung on or bit down hard. Did she draw blood at all?
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