Pipefish –  A Weird Cousin of the Sea Horse

anoceanloverworld:

unquestionably sea horses are one of the most bizarre looking sea creatures. Pipefish, a close cousin is even weirder. Look at these fishes and you will agree with me.

Along with sea horses and sea dragons, the pipefish belong to the group

Syngnathidae. There are thousands of species living in the oceans.

Like their sea horse brethren, the male pipefishes also do parenting duties like carrying eggs and also “giving birth”.

Most of the pipefish species live in the coral reefs. Some can also be spotted in sea grass beds. Here are some more photos of them.

I hope that you will enjoy this post.

I used to keep a blue-striped pipefish, one of the ones in the top photo. They’re lovely little fish to watch, they glide beautifully around on invisible fins and intently inspect anything and everything for small creatures to snikt up with their little beaks. 

glumshoe:

Raccoons are the worst. You expect them to go through your stuff and steal your food while you’re camping, but they don’t stop there – half the time, they’ll be curious enough to come over and touch you. They prod your sleeping body with their horrible little people hands, run their claws through your hair, hold your fingers with their own. I’ve never been aggressively menaced by one, but they’ve slapped my ass through hammock fabric on multiple occasions and stroked my face or hands on others. I’ve played tug-of-war with large raccoons through my window when they grabbed the string to the yarn-and-cup telephone I’d set up with my neighbor.

#raccoons might not exist and they may be glamours of especially annoying fae

I kept wondering why there were no ‘New Mexico Gothic’ posts but then I realized you really don’t need to make anything up

the-four-humors:

New Mexico is already fucking weird, you could just list shit that actually happens

  • Trucks full of nuclear waste drive down the interstate. You do not know which ones they are. 
  • Large satellite arrays dot the desert. You’re not sure what they’re looking for. 
  • The bats are dying.
  • There is a place littered with green glass. The glass is from the A-bomb fusing the sand. The government won’t let anyone go there anymore.
  • What we thought was a sudden storm was a cloud of locusts a mile deep blocking out radar imaging. 
  • Neon lights still run despite the property they sit on being empty lots of dirt. 
  • …literally all of the town of Roswell

drferox:

Holy cow the beta bug is biting hard at the moment. I had to go in for fish food and these boys were just there.

I’ve been a recovered betta addict for many years, but it never really stops…

I do not want to set up a second tank, not with a creative and adventurous kitten roaming the house. But my 40gal still runs, though it only has two bristlenose and a school of rummy nose tetras at the moment.

I miss bettas and am sorely tempted. But this tank is way bigger than any I’ve kept a betta in before. Has anyone kept males in a tank this big?

Bettas with long tails need places to flop/rest, and ones with especially long tails can struggle to get to the surface in tanks deeper than a foot. If you can find one with a shortish tail, like that gorgeous silver boy up there, he should do great! Shouldn’t object to the tetras, either, and there’s space for them to scoot away even if he does try and bite them.

anarchyisfunandfree:

anarchyisfunandfree:

anarchyisfunandfree:

Fun fact, hammering metal spikes into tree trunks is a federal crime in the US because environmental activists used to do it in the 80s to fuck up chainsaws and logging equipment.

So you should never use this effective strategy for disrupting logging operations because it is illegal.

Here’s a link describing exactly how to do it, so you can make sure not to by accident.

Do not do this! It can kill the tree just as surely as a chainsaw would, you’re letting bacteria and fungi in. 

Also, you’re not hurting the people responsible for the logging, you’re just hurting whoever they’ve hired. People who are doing nothing worse than working to live don’t deserve to have a chainsaw chain explode in their face.