Tag: fish

kai-ni:

Things that make me laugh: all orange clownfish

NAKEY

They’re literally called naked clownfish i’m die

Clownfish were one of the first saltwater fish bred in captivity, second only to cardinalfish, so there are a lot of custom varieties that have been selectively bred for. Some of them are nakey.

seatrench:

A Pufferfish inflating itself by rapidly intaking water

(source)

Friendly reminder not to provoke pufferfish into puffing, and NEVER to take one out of the water unless you intend to eat it. If they puff themselves up with air instead of water, they can end up not being able to blow it back out, rendering them helpless. Buckets are your friend with these guys. Really, with all fish, but especially with these guys.

That said, this is both interesting and adorable.

quillusquillus:

nyquilnap:

kemeeley:

nyquilnap:

my man went for it

hey WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE THINGS

eels

okay but what kind of eels

update: thanks to a tumblr user who sadly dropped off the comments before I could catch their name, these are very likely new zealand longfin eels! Here is artist Stephanie Bowman feeding some more eel friends and talking about them:

I am jealous of the people who get to feed eels.

nyquilnap:

kemeeley:

nyquilnap:

my man went for it

hey WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE THINGS

eels

In response to the comments: 

These aren’t salamanders, they only have two limbs and don’t have fingers on those limbs.

They aren’t sirens because they don’t have external gills.

I don’t think they’re amphiumas because those limbs look like fins, not tiny arms.

Electric eels (not actually eels) are lighter and have pitted skin.

I don’t think they’re lungfish, most lungfish have four limbs and all are solitary. You’d be hard-pressed to find that many lungfish in one section of river. I’m also not sure whether lungfish are quite that vigorous about getting to food.

So, yes, I’d say they’re eels! I’m surprised they didn’t try to eat the duck, freshwater eels can take down impressively large prey. 

snowflakeeel:

brookaford:

pet-of-subs:

guppiesandgoldfish:

pet-of-subs:

Do you think you guys can tell me funny stories/funny quirks about your pets? Or send me some silly pictures of them? I’m not doing well

Here’s Miku… She likes to jump out of the water for food and managed to jump up get a live fruit fly off the bottom of a leaf that stuck above the water…

Hello Miku. You are stunningly, breathtakingly beautiful

One of my loaches in their tank today. 😂

I wanted to send a photo of Noodle but I couldn’t find her! She’s so good at hiding!

So here’s a photo of an empty tank with No Visible Eels I guess….