#Moon wrasse

[fish-daily]

can you draw a moon wrasse?? love ur blog btw

fish 205 - moon wrasse

[makofinz]

fishuary day 3 is wrasse so i drew some wrasse. i actually didnt know much abt them before today

[one-fish-a-day]

Maybe a moon wrasse?

Day 22

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[pochqmqri]

Blackeye thicklip, blackbarred, sixbarred, and moon wrasses on Fitzroy Island, QLD, Australia

[herpsandbirds]

Moon Wrasse (Thalassoma lunare), family Labridae, Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, Australia

Like many wrasses, this species is a protogynous sequential hermaphrodite. They start off their lives as females, and become males when they get older.

photograph by Leonard Low 

[echantedtoon]

Kny Mermaid Au Ramblings P4

I know more but I practically did every other well known demon slayer character in the series so I figured I'd do one last post explaining who the rest of the cast would be as mermaids. I've already done Akaza who's a Betta fish and Kaigaku who's a black electric eel. So now I'll be doing the rest of the demons and a lot of other characters. Lord have mercy for all the fish I looked up.

Remember all of the random lower moons in the ova series and Mugen train arc? Yeah. They're all minnow mers.

Now you're probably thinking Douma would be a rainbow fish right? Well I beg to differ and offer you my take. He'd definitely be a Fairy Wrasse mer.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://oceananimals.org/ocean-fish/wrasse-parrotfish/wrasse/fairy-wrasse/&ved=2ahUKEwjnq_PKusKGAxWMIEQIHR_jCskQr4kDegUI1AEQAA&usg=AOvVaw2YRDgIkmfKxDF7oBof4pf8

Nakime was a hard one but I think she'd be pretty as a black butterfly goldfish mer.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/black-butterfly-goldfish-25-35-length-%2528carassius-auratus%2529&ved=2ahUKEwiQ9s_8vsKGAxXBHUQIHVDdBtsQr4kDegQIFxAA&usg=AOvVaw3BpMo0ntw0sPot4YwstgfD

Kyogai is a Black Drum mer.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_drum&ved=2ahUKEwjs8fG2v8KGAxVkKEQIHZZEOY0Qr4kDegQIPRAA&usg=AOvVaw1Ip242VSs5Kmmf7IcyeJmp

Enmu is definitely an octopus mer. Specifically like the art by @cornfleaykes linked below.

https://www.tumblr.com/cornfleaykes/720378046334615552?source=share

Kokushibo and Yoriichi are the same thing being twins. Since Kokushibo is often associated with purple and Yoriichi orange, I found a fish that could match both of them. Both twins are Biota Orangetail Damselfish mers. Only Yoriichi has unusually more orange on his tail.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.algaebarn.com/shop/captive-bred/fish/biota-orangetail-damselfish-chrysiptera-cyanea/&ved=2ahUKEwiIgui4xMKGAxUzke4BHVgcABsQr4kDegQIZBAA&usg=AOvVaw30i-fXBi32NTynUJIaGegk

Daki and Gyutaro are vastly different to match their appearances. Gyutaro is a black Hagfish mer.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://glassvirtualzoo.wordpress.com/black-hagfish/&ved=2ahUKEwjYgdypxsKGAxXOEkQIHWhYF6kQr4kDegQIGBAA&usg=AOvVaw1uGruM_OsZQR1lXdwTSOYt

Meanwhile Daki/Ume is a Pink Dragon Siamese Fighting Fish mer because I liked how pretty and flowing the fins were and it seems to match her well.

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/pink-dragon-siamese-fighting-fish-betta-384303799

Gyokko is a mutated Blue eel mer. That's it.

Hantengu was a tricky one. I know I already listed a WHOLE BUNCH of the Kny characters as Betta fishes but I'll go ahead and say that Hantengu and his clones would all be a pod of Betta fish mers related to each other because honestly Betta Fish can come in literally EVERY color. So Urami and Hantengu are black betta fish mers. Sekido is a red one. Urogi yellow. Karaku green but a lighter green than Tanjiro. Aizetsu blue. And Zohakutan is a dark purple color.

Urokodaki would be a common goldfish mer and Jigoro is like Zenitsu and Kaigaku an electric eel mer.

Hairou would be a blacktip reef shark mer.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.tetiaroasociety.org/island/fish/blacktip-reef-shark&ved=2ahUKEwjchKSFy8KGAxXz4ckDHX8GPDkQr4kDegUI6QEQAA&usg=AOvVaw36mXG9EcE-8peU273fAVTB

Muzan is a rare pitch black Bigeye Sand Tiger Shark mer like the one in the article.

https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-find-new-all-black-glowing-shark-species-ninja-lanternshark-409718

Rei and her daughter are both Brown Sweetlips mers.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.shutterstock.com/search/brown-sweetlips-fish&ved=2ahUKEwiS3POCzMKGAxWx7skDHaGFLogQr4kDegQIExAA&usg=AOvVaw3goHa1p3bOS5lBqxcq4ZAx

Haganezuka and the other sword smiths would be manta ray or sting ray mers mostly because I saw some art of Manta ray Mermaids and I think they'd look cool as them.

Rui and the rest of the spider demon are Albino Diving Bell Spider drows which turns out are a real species of spider that lives underwater.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.treehugger.com/nature-blows-my-mind-strange-scuba-diving-spider-4855467&ved=2ahUKEwjW68y8z8KGAxVKHUQIHRSQBwAQr4kDegQIExAA&usg=AOvVaw3T_2Bats74FtQgsKBBWGkX

Bonus mentions

Susamaru is an octopus mer too. Yahaba is a Cleaner fish mer. The swamp demon is just a trio of sea monsters. Tanjiro's ancestors in Yoriichi's flashbacks are Betta fish like the rest of Tanjiro's family. Tokito's father is a red herring mer. Sabito is a common orange Koi. Tengen's brother is a black butterfly koi mer. Monoko is a blue Glofish mer. And Giyuu's sister is the same species of mer as him.

Both Uta and Michikatsu's wife are both Rainbow Trout mers.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.wildtrout.org/content/rainbow-trout&ved=2ahUKEwjL2vXv0cKGAxU_GtAFHat1L9kQr4kDegQIGBAA&usg=AOvVaw1tXsb92zhaFmgDqHcmoWuo

And finally the Ubuyashikis. Amane and Their daughters are all white spotted jellyfish mers.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.crittersquad.com/fact-sheets/white-spotted-jelly-fact-sheet/&ved=2ahUKEwiY466vs8SGAxX748kDHfbqDk8Qr4kDegQIFhAA&usg=AOvVaw2_PbSrvezrdYdHFk1N7iKi

Meanwhile Kagaya and their son are water dragon hybrids.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.pinterest.com/pin/371406300502782906/&ved=2ahUKEwiyoqaDtMSGAxUJ5ckDHVROPSsQr4kDegUIygEQAA&usg=AOvVaw15b7fDD-PTuPL-qbgkndvL

Hoo boy. That was a lot. But I'm all done now explaining who everyone is in the mer au. Honestly it was fun coming up with these.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Once in a Blue Moon: The Bluehead Wrasse

The bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) is a small species of wrasse found only in the western Atlantic Ocean; particularly around the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America. They inhabit coral reefs, and occasionally along sandy bottoms and sea grass meadows. Bluehead wrasse prefer shallow, warm, clear water and reefs with lots of hiding places that they can easily access.

T. bifasciatum is noted for its bright coloration. Females and small males are bright yellow with a white underbelly, while larger males have a greenish body and a blue head, seperated by thick black and white stripes. These large males are typically 7-8 cm (2.7-3.1 in) in length, while smaller males and females are around 6 cm (2.3 in).

Like many coral reef fish species, the bluehead wrasse engages in protogyny. All eggs hatch as females, and as they mature some change into males. These young males, known as initial phase (IP) males, continue to resemble females but are fully capable of reproduction. Eventually, the largest of them transition into a secondary phase, also known as the terminal phase (TP). TP males carry the characteristic blue and green markings of bluehead wrasse, and are significantly larger. The transition from female to IP, IP to TP, or even directly from female to TP can occur at any time, and is particularly triggered by removal of dominant (TP) males from a population.

Reproduction typically occurs from January to August, though it can continue sporadically throughout the year. Mature adults participate in group spawns, in which females and both male types converge at spawning sites. Males compete for proximity to females, and typically TP males will closely guard access to a harem of 30-50 females, while IP males will attempt to use their coloring to sneak in and mate surreptitiously. T. bifasciatum are broadcast spawners; both sexes release their gametes into the water column, where they are fertilized and carried away by the current.

Eggs spend 6-8 months free floating, sometimes drifting miles from their spawning grounds. After hatching into juveniles (larvae), they burrow into the sand and remain there for several months before emerging to seek out a coral reef in which to shelter. At this point, a year after hatching, they are typically mature and ready to mate themselves. Individuals can live up to 3 years in the wild, though juvenile mortality is high.

Bluehead wrasse are cleaner fish. The majority of their food are parasites picked off of larger fish, as well as shrimp, krill, crustaceans, and plankton gathered from the coral itself. However, they are also often food themselves for larger fish, moray eels, and stingrays.

Conservation status: The IUCN considers the bluehead wrasse to be Least Concern. Their primary threat is habitat loss due to coral reef bleaching.

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Nick Hobgood

[whumpninja]

Cool fish/ocean critters I think it would be cool to use for merpeople, because my head is still full of mer whump and probably will be until June:

• mantis shrimp (nuclear punch is a must)

• leafy seadragon

• thresher shark (specifically this species because their tails are awesome)

• marine iguana (this would be kinda creepy because legs but I also sort of love it)

• seahorse

• mosasaurus (this mer would be enormous and beautiful and majestic and the coolest ever)

• arapaima

• slippery dick

• yellowtail snapper

• rainbow wrasse (these things are so pretty)

• cuttlefish (color changing included)

• sea turtle (no I don’t know how this would work I just like sea turtles)

• lionfish (venom spines!!!!)

• barracuda

• selkies but instead of seals they’re sea otters

• sea bunny (because adorable)

• sheep of the sea (see above)

• electric eel (shocking, I know)

• moon jellyfish (tell me this would not be the prettiest merperson ever)

• frickin’ oarfish (just. mer but also sea serpent.)

Anyway if I was an artist I would draw these but I’m not so I won’t. Enjoy.

[explodingfurby]

Fishuary 2024 Week 1

Yes, I actually did it! it was a lot of work lol

Day 1: Shark. I chose the newborn great white that went mildly viral recently, in watercolor and ink

Day 2: Salmonid. I did a Gila trout in watercolor and ink

Day 3: Wrasse. I did a moon wrasse in gouache paint

Day 4: Surgeonfish. I did some kind of juvenile, I don't know what species but it's clear, in black pen.

Day 5: Triggerfish. This one really made me actually want to do this lol. I did a lagoon triggerfish, specifically the one from the "do you fart" meme where one repeatedly swims into a camera, in colored pencil.

Day 6: Catfish/Pleco. I did an albino Cory in pink pen

Day 7: Blowfish/Pufferfish. I made a dogface pufferfish in colored pencil.

Yes these are all on index cards lol. I perhaps may have done 4 of them today because I spent way too long on the wrasse hehehe

@fish-daily

[colourstreakgryffin]

Hello! Just wanted to say your Merfolk Hashira headcanons were amazing & I couldn't stop reading it. Rengoku gave me a bit of Little Mermaid vibes. 😂😂😂

But I wonder what the Upper Moons & the Kamaboko squad be like as Merfolk?

Kyojuro out there singing Part of Your World for real XD! Ima pick Kamaboko Squad for this since it’s easier!

KNY Kamaboko Squad Shitpost; Merfolk AU

Second Part of the Hashira Merfolk AU! This is actually very cute, I like it a lot so here it is~!

Overall

Basically. Almost everything stated in the Hashira post applies to both the Kamaboko Squad and the Upper Moons but these five have a different concept

Just like the top grade, Hashira. The Kamaboko Squad possess the same lunar energy-powered oceanic magic inside those moonstone pendants and can do the same feats the Hashira can

Their magic is just a lot weaker than compared to the Hashira. Depending on the rank of the solider for the Ubuyashiki Royal Family and their underwater kingdom, the magic grew alongside with the rank

They all possess a unique weapon to their own character, alongside their magic and default summon-able weapons, used to fight off threats

Kamado Tanjiro

Tanjiro is a red queen snapper merman

Tanjiro always prays for the poor life of the vicious sea predators he is forced to kill. He feels sorry for them

Spends a lot of time honing his magic, above of the water. He likes practicing in the world over the sea

Kamado Nezuko

Nezuko is a rosy scale fairy wrasse merwoman

She possesses the demon siren voice and demonic traits, but her merwoman anatomy has not changed

Nezuko loves playing with the many sea creatures around her; fishes, sea turtles, jellyfish, clams, just anything cute!

Agatsuma Zenitsu

Zenitsu is a yellow sailfin tang merman

Very much despises humans and gets annoyed each time he has to clean up a shipwreck

Zenitsu has very fast swimming speed in general, able to tap into a brief speed boost and surpass Sanemi’s speed

Hashibira Inosuke

Inosuke is a atlantic blue marlin merman

Inosuke has family-history with the rainbow loaded comb jellyfish monster, Douma

Please don’t give him a weapon. He’ll go find a swimming human, chase them and jab at them

Tsuyuri Kanao

Kanao is a pink flowerhorn cichlid merwoman

Her cooking skills for merfolk is immaculate as she can prepare such luxurious dishes easily

Kanao loves styling the hairs of her sisters/friends with the signature Kocho butterfly-styled hairclips

Shinazugawa Genya

Genya is a dark purple-black payara merman

Genya has sharp Dracula-like fangs and he is a prominent predator, able to tear apart beasts like sharks

Is quite susceptible to merwomen singing and siren songs, with his shyness towards girls. He can easily be swayed

I don’t know the artist name but credit, of the art above, goes to him/her/them!

[aucupariaart]

Day 14 of „I want to draw mermaids and now you guys have to deal with it”

Mermaid Crocodile

Happy Mother’s Day! To celebrate this day, here is Crocomom as a mermaid. Crocodile is a Wrasse, more specifically a Moon Wrasse. He is one because Wrasses are hermaphrodites and can change their sex at some point in their life. He is not the only character that is going to be one. At the end of the month there is going to be another character as a type of Wrasse .

[dirty-bosmer]

Tell me about the fish you saw snorkeling please :)

Oh my GOD I nearly burned my self with my coffee when I saw this. Thank you so much for asking, but also you've opened the flood gates because it just so happens I am about to dump so many fish on you. While I primarily study freshwater fishes, I am a lover off all things aquatic, so here we go (all these images are from the internet):

Parrot fish galore and HUGE ones at that. The biggest one I saw looked like this. I don't know my scarids very well, but I do know that I saw a bumphead parrotfish. So funny looking. I was honestly surprised by how all the fish out there are CONSTANTLY nipping at the corals, but the current was pretty strong so we all had to swim a lot. It makes sense that they always need to be eating. I had no idea life on the reef was so turbulent

A lot of acunthurids. No blue tangs but plenty of brown ones and some unicorn tang! The ones I saw had really small humps.

So the common name for acunthirds is surgeonfishes because they have these sharp, blade like spines on their caudal peduncle called a scalpel. You can see it a bit more clearly on the Clown Unicornfishes (which were my fave cause the colors were so bright). Here they're the bright orange processes near the tail.

Wrasses. SO many wrasses. We saw birdnose wrasses with their long snoots, moon wrasses that were as colorful as rainbow lorikeets. My favorite were the cleaner wrasses following all the big parrotfish around and eating their ectoparasites,

I saw a moray!! That was the most unexpected find for me. I was the only one in my group to see one, but it was so far out that the crew working the sailboat had to call me back in 😅 It was brown and spotted black and looked just like this guy. I didn't actually see his head, but I saw his long long body. He was huge!!

Some gobies hiding in their holes. Apparently some species of goby have a mutualistic relationship with shrimp. The shrimp digs a series of tunnels in the sand and the goby stands sentinel at the entrance. The shrimp then maintains contact with the goby with its long antennae so that it knows if the goby moves or startles when predators are nearby.

The goatfish was probably my second favorite find after the moray because I had no idea they were out there. Goatfish have two long chin barbels covered in tastebuds that they use to probe along the sand in search for prey. They are quite dextrous barbels too. They flick em around so fast!

I got stung by something! it whipped me across the face pretty much 20 minutes into the water and it felt long and filamentous so i thought maybe it was some stray strand of anemone or jellyfish with active nematocysts. The crew member said it was likely a small jelly so woohoo! I got stung by a jelly on the great barrier reef :D

Triggerfish. Iw as hoping to see more tetraodonotiforms like puffers or filefish or a cowfish maybe, but I'm glad I still got to see at least one representative of the order cause they are among the most bizarre groups of fishes

This Moorish Idol that looked exactly like Gill from finding nemo

Lemonpeel angelfish, bluegirdle angelfish, emperor angelfish, you name it.

a lot of chaetodontids too. As I said, I don't study marine fishes so all the butterfly fishes looked so similar to me XD most of them were some combination of white, yellow, and black with their characteristically tall bodies and narrow snouts.

Giant clam!!! THEY WERE SO BIG. And so colorful. The movement of their spiracle truly hypnotized me.

Alright. That's all I got time for at the moment, as I need to pack and head up to the rainforest for the last leg of my trip. I'm sure I have forgotten dozens of fish already XD Thank you for attending my show and tell and for expressing interesting. Truly, I'm living any biologists dream rn, and I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunity to visit such a beautiful part of the world 🥲

[pigswithwings]

jpeg im having a day can you tell me about something that makes you happy. fish or something

sure mate :] here are some things (it is long so i have put it into a readmore)

my favourite fish is probably the hadal snailfiah but perhaps you already know that... i think they look very nice! i like to think that i look like them while smiling even though they are fish and i am not. i wish i could be one though can you imagine. if you and i were fish i hope that we would see each other in a coral reef from time to time even. also a runner up is the parrotfish and the humphead wrasse. the parrotfish for its cool colours and the fact that they encase themselves in mucus when sleeping! and the humphead wrasse because when i was younger i watched a documentary on how some female humphead wrasse become males. and that's why i am transgender btw

the moon has been looking very big and bright recently... on thursday last week i yelled to some of my friends about how beautiful she is!! and i was right, too... i think the moon is currently in the gibbous waxing phase? I LOOKED IT UP I'M RIGHT LET'S FUCKING GO anyways. moon is big like a nightlight in the sky isn't that wonderful? makes me want to get through the day so i can tell my family what phase of the moon is next

i think that video games are one of the best inventions humans have ever made. a lot of my friends have been made through connection over video games. and a lotsl of work goes into them. lots of video game have really good music and sometimes dialogue and sprites or characters and even the ones that don't have those things still have so much work has been put into them. and i think video games are like am amalgamation of humanity's love for stories ... i have been playing a lot of my favourite video games recently! but i recommend the stanley parable / ultra deluxe, ultrakill, undertale, half life, etc. they are very fun and they have much heart in them

hmm last thing. i hope you have a better day tomorrow! remember that things keep going... the end of the world is neither today nor tomorrow and there is still much hope to be had. good things will come again as surely as the sun rises. people care about you. you care about people. love is alive and well

[icedmetaltea]

I’d be a wrasses merman

Small -> changes gender -> ftm

Sun is a clownfish for sure

And Moon is an eel.

Kinda wanna fry Moon up and have him on a seafood platter to atone for his crimes

[thebrackishtank]

Is Moon wrasse a brackish fish? I am keeping it on 1.008 and its doing fine.

Lets do the easy answer first then the convoluted explanation next! As far as I know, the Moon Wrasse is not found in brackish areas. I'm pretty sure it is only found in and around reefs (but hey I might be wrong there).

The convoluted part is that salinity tolerance for fish is somewhat on the fluid side. I remember reading about a very prominent and well experienced aquarist who stated that he kept all FOWLR tanks for his clients at 1.012, though on paper all were saltwater fish. He reported they all lived healthy lives. But anecdotal evidence is weird like that - just because somebody reports success doesn't make it the best for everybody with all fish in all situations. Until somebody does an expansive experiment on the subject, I think it's best to treat this variable as an unknown and default to proven safe environmental conditions.

[hk2int]

Photoshop AI doesn't know about Moon Wrasses :P