#Moray Eels

[saikira999]

Help the unfortunate eel...😰

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[krmayerillustration]

I had the high honor of participating in the magnanimous and esteemed @bowelfly 's magnificent Gigaphone.

I think I'm #53 of 72 incredible artists, and I could never have guessed where this chain began, or where it ended. But I did get to draw eels, my one true creature.

If you haven't seen it all, please do over HERE (Its also a list of amazing artists to follow)

[aliquid-de-magis]

we've had this friendly young geometric moray for over a year now because nobody has a 500-gallon tank to put them in (we ordered a more manageably-sized pepper moray but there was a mixup)

but anyway like

this squishy derp baby is my FRIEND and i wanted you all to see their charming spiral eyebrows

i'm gonna petition my boss to put them in the shark display because pj is alone in there and morays like to have buddies

[snototter]

A giant moray eel (Gymnothorax javanicus) in Bunaken National Park, Sulaewsi, Indonesia

by jaffles

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

It's time for a costume change! Male ribbon eels are bright blue with a yellow stripe along the back, but when they change into females they turn entirely yellow. Interestingly, ribbon eels themselves are color blind, so they are unable to distinguish sex based on color. The reason for their bright coloration, or the difference between sexes is unknown.

(Image: A male ribbon eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita) by Erik Schlögl)

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[a-neru-neru]

its time for mermay | introductions

[chunkfunkgunk-offishal]

When the jaws open wide and theres more jaws inside its a moray!

[weadtlys-art]

Lil doodle turned into 5 hours of eel drawings

[typophobiaart]

I heard u like eels

[jayhashands]

look at these happy little eels yay!!!!

[cloudcountry]

I brought eel pics!!!

Zebra Moray and A Viper(? I think?) Moray

Also eels having bad eyesight leads to the conspiracy of "Do The Tweels Secretly Wear Contacts And Why Don't They Wear Glasses Even Though They'd Look Hella Cool In Them?"

the viper moray is so squishy. it also has a bad rep like the fangtooth moray because they look kinda scary but theyre no different than any other moray C:

as for moray eel eyesight, their pupils are circular and don’t respond much to lighting changes. they do, however, do remarkably well when it comes to gauging distance. they sense their prey by sniffing them out and using vibrations in the water though, plus they hunt at night so excellent vision isn’t exactly necessary.

i honestly don’t know why they don’t wear glasses, it’s a question i’ve thought about a lot too. since azul wears glasses and octopi have really good vision (told my friend about it and she brought up colorblind glasses but thats not the case. trey's halloween sr vignette says straight up that azul wears them for vision correction + implies that he also has blurry vision when he takes them off. he also wears them because they make him appear more "intellectual." love that guy.)

anyways azul isnt the point even though i adore him. the leech brothers could very well wear contacts but i’d imagine they’d react to glasses the same way they react to shoes. azul mentioned once (in the trey halloween vignette again) that people in the coral sea do wear glasses, they just aren’t that common.

maybe floyd just didn’t want to go through the hassle of getting a vision test done? maybe he’ll get glasses once he gets bored!! i don’t know about jade though since he does a lot of mountain explorations and you kind of have to see.

it’s most likely just a design choice though...ultimately my scientific research doesn’t mean much in the face of character design LMAO but its still fun to think about!!

[marejadilla]

Nadine Tralala (kopfscheu), "Riptide“. Oil on panel. Figurative oil painter based in Germany.

"When I was caught in a riptide that dragged me deep down, I said to the moray eels, "Not yet.“ - Nadine Tralala

[goosewizard]

moray eels are just big puppies to me. big sweet eyes. go *< all the time. big ol puppy dogs.

for reference:

same thing. case closed.

[gh0stsh4rk]

A fine collection of eels (ribbon eel, fangtooth moray, banana eel, and another moray I can’t name)—they’re up on my Redbubble if you take a particular fondness for them :)

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Contrary to the popular song Frank Sinatra song, moray eel eyes are actually quite small, and they have poor eyesight. To compensate, members of the Muraenidae family have two sets of nostrils; one pair just above their eyes, and a larger, tube-shaped pair towards the front of their face. The particular shape of their nostrils allows them to more accurately identify and locate prey. Now that’s a-moray!

(Image: A green moray eel (Gymnothorax funebris) by the Bournemouth Aquarium)

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