This rockfish would like to remind you that winter squash last a long time, but not forever, and you should probably plan to eat that one on your counter tonight or tomorrow.
Category Archives: Fish
Bluebanded Goby
Wikipedia says this fish lives at depths between 0 to 249 ft.
My guess is that some young goby one day was told by its parents not to go 250 ft down, and that rule has been passed along ever since.
Sea Dragon
The feeling the morning after the cool kids pressured you into voting for a tax bill that will outright murder your constituents.
Dragonface Pipefish
Dragonface pipefish mostly just watch TV.
Lined Seahorse
One half the form of a maiden fish with a jet black mare’s body.
Picturesque Dragonet
A livery he did wear
And he did comb back his hair*
And in velvet so green he did appear
But straight he did not repair
To the Curragh of Kildare
Mostly ’cause it was on land.
* Yeah, okay, but “fin” doesn’t rhyme
Barred Sand Bass
He dreams of her, larger than life, the time they spent together, days trickling by.
Awakening, he wonders if she knows how much she’s missing, how much she’s lost.
Fully awake, memory returns. He remembers the love, but he also remembers the other things.
He remembers the pushing, the shoving, the intensity of love turned dark and violent. In that moment, he knows what they lost but also what that loss gained. He knows that she made the right decision – the right decision for her, but also for him, for them.
He has to let the past go. He had to look forward and figure out how to live his life, past the point of rescue.
Coelacanth
As a general rule, I don’t like to post photos of dead things, but since I am unlikely to ever see a living coelecanth, here you go.
This is one of the last recently-living remnants of the lobe-finned fish from which some scientists no longer believe that land mammals evolved, though Wikipedia has not been updated to match the debate about the sarcopterygians, the details of which I am only slightly aware.
Long story short: all* the scientists seem to agree that land animals evolved from fish, but perhaps not fish that looked like this one.
* Within a standard deviation or three.
African Lungfish
Stuck for a last minute Halloween costume?
Why not lungfish?
Diver guide
This was our guide diver in the middle of a feeding frenzy that she prompted by opening a bait ball under water.
This is when I stopped being disappointed that the sharks were in a different tank.
Fish
The visibility under the water, though, isn’t that great.
Ray
This is one of the cool things you can see when you go underwater.
Australian Lungfish
There are six species of lungfish, but only the Australian lungfish has only a single lung. The others should more rightly be called “lungsfish”.
Fish
Fish checking to see if it’s safe to read the comments yet.
Largescale Foureyes
Foureye fish can survive on land, if they find themselves stranded at low tide.
Not weird enough for you?
Foureye fish only have two eyes, but each eye is split into two parts, with each part having its own pupil and retina. This allows them to see above and below the water at the same time.
Not weird enough for you?
Foureye fish are “one side maters”, meaning that right-“handed” males only mate with left-“handed” females and vice versa.
Fish
Many fish are bitey. Some are more bitey than others.
Ribboned Sea Dragon
The sign said there’s a ribboned sea dragon in here somewhere, but I couldn’t find it.
Blind Cavefish
According to Damian Moran, Rowan Softley and Eric J. Warrant, the blind cavefish lost its eyes because the visual part of the brain consumes 15% of all the energy used by the fish. So it’s less that they lost their eyes because they didn’t need them in the dark. It’s that, in the dark, there’s less total energy to go around so energy-expensive systems are selected against, as the most efficient fish win the energy game.
Read more at http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/8/e1500363.full
Achilles Tang
Things you may not know about digital cameras:
– If you over-expose and get too much white, it may not be possible to save the image
– If you under-expose and get too much black, it may not be possible to save the image
– They’re very sensitive to red, so it’s easy to get too much red, which makes it hard to save the image.
These fish are hard to shoot.
Juvenile Ribbon Dragon
Ent cosplay