#lamprey eel

[chunkfunkgunk-offishal]

Have you done sea lampreys, invasive to the Great Lakes? They suck. This is personal

Today on CHUNK! FUNK! GUNK! We rate

the LAMPREY EEL:

2/10 Chunk

8/10 Funk

6/10 Gunk

As someone who lives relatively near the Great Lakes, these guys are the source of my fear of being in large bodies of water. Not very chunky, but they do seem to be slippery slimy little guys. Very funky. Their mouths are so freaky, but their little eyes are incredibly silly looking.

AND NOW….

My sister requested that I do an OVERALL rating for the creatures, so;

Overall: 6/10

Horrible terrible guys, but also very unique and cool. I can’t hate them as much now that I’ve seen their funny little eyes. They are still terrifying though.

(Look at this thing it looks like a sock puppet)

[odd-critter]

FISH WITH LEGS ATTACK!!!!!

[caleod]

3-5-24

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

The Natural History Museum of Helsinki has one big wall that shows a sliver of the marine life diversity found in the world’s oceans right in the beginning of the world environments exhibit.

Featuring in the closer photos a preserved sturgeon, a lamprey, two sharks, a sea robin, and a moray eel!

There’s also sharks and whales and other marine life on the ceiling but I forgot to take pictures besides for this wolf eel whoops.

[neopronouns]

flag id: five flags with 6 stripes. the top flag's stripes are green-black, dark faded teal, teal, dull brown, dull dark brown, and brown-black. the middle left flag's stripes are green-black, dark faded teal, gold, orange, red-brown, and brown-black. the middle right flag's stripes are green-black, dark faded teal, faded red, light silver, silver, and dark silver. the bottom left flag's stripes are green-black, dark faded teal, faded yellow, golden brown, brown, and dark brown. the bottom right flag's stripes are green-black, dark faded teal, silver, brownish-grey, medium dark orange-red, and dark red.

each flag has a symbol in its top left corner. the top flag has a symbol of an anglerfish, which is brown-black with a teal outline. the middle left flag has a symbol of a moray eel, which is brown-black with a gold outline. the middle right flag has a symbol of an oarfish, which is dark silver with a light silver outline. the bottom left flag has a symbol of a lamprey, which is dark brown with a faded yellow outline. the bottom right flag has a symbol of a squid, which is dark red with a light silver outline. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

anglerfish moray | oarfish lamprey | giant squid

anglerfish: one who presents in a pisceldryne way

moray (eel): one who presents in a pisceldryne and feminine way or whose presentation is feminine in a pisceldryne way

oarfish: one who presents in a pisceldryne and masculine way or whose presentation is masculine in a pisceldryne way

lamprey: one who presents in a pisceldryne and neutral way or whose presentation is neutral in a pisceldryne way

giant squid: one who presents in a pisceldryne and gender nonconforming way or whose presentation is gender nonconforming in a pisceldryne way

[pt: anglerfish: one who presents in a pisceldryne way

moray (eel): one who presents in a pisceldryne and feminine way or whose presentation is feminine in a pisceldryne way

oarfish: one who presents in a pisceldryne and masculine way or whose presentation is masculine in a pisceldryne way

lamprey: one who presents in a pisceldryne and neutral way or whose presentation is neutral in a pisceldryne way

giant squid: one who presents in a pisceldryne and gender nonconforming way or whose presentation is gender nonconforming in a pisceldryne way. end pt]

pisceldryst presentation terms in the style of various other neogender umbrella presentation terms (ex: these techrobai presentations, these kenochoric presentations)!

i based the terms on different scary/odd sea creatures. here are the symbol sources: anglerfish, moray, oarfish, lamprey, giant squid!

tags: @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @macchiane, @genderstarbucks, @sugar-and-vice-mogai

tags cont: @p-rtyboy, @pawsibell, @dragonpride17, @en8y, @presentationflag-archive

dni link

[thesnakesstuff]

Thinking what kinda scars and Tattoos Ford would have.

[sweetnsour-stuff]

I accidentally merged the lineart and colour while drawing this lmao. My only saving grace is that I was pretty much done colouring and shade with layers

Eelektross is such a weird favourite of mine considering I hate leeches and lamprey, yet I love him regardless. I think part of it is that it's a pokemon I figured out evolved with a thunderstone all on my own as a kid. As for why I had an Eelektrik in my party when I hated leeches and it wasn't the kind of pokemon I'd typically like? Idk, kept it in a party on a whim I guess. I don't understand young me's thought proceses.

(I do like Eelektross on its own but I also do also enjoy seeing all the content of him and Emmet too lol)

[marshland-parlour-cat]

The pixel artist Neorice (https://x.com/neoriceisgood) has made a huge collection of marine life. I emailed him a while back asking if I could upload some of my favourites to my tumblr blog (crediting him of course), and he said I could.

[hoard-of-plushes]

Pokemon Center squeezing cushion Eelektrik plush (2023)

[creaturetap]

weird little fuckers, rainbow edition

[gijoe-forever]

[artificial-condition]

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago

[doddsmountain]

hi Dodd I'm in the mood to learn some fish things what are your top 5 favorite fish?

OMG!!!!!!!!

SO! Number 1 is OBVIOUSLY Oncorhynchus mykiss... AKA the rainbow trout

These guys are amazing. They are the most farmed fish in the world by weight (not numbers). And they're not a trout! They are a true pacific salmon, like chinooks, cohos, sockeye, etc etc.

These dudes are different than the other pacific salmon though as they can spawn multiple times! That's why they don't undergo quite such extreme transformations during spawning season.

Rainbows are typically landlocked. Steelhead trout (which are Oncorhynchus mykiss mykiss) are the rainbows you see out at sea.

NUMBER 2: Acipenser transmontanus.... WHITE STURGEON!

This photo is a poor image I took of the baby white sturgeon I got to take care of for a year during my fisheries and aquaculture tech program.

White sturgeon are the largest sturgeon species. The largest ever recorded was 20 feet long and roughly 120 years old. The oldest sturgeon I worked with, Tyra, was about 9 feet long and was only 65. They reside along the pacific coast of North America and they are pure muscle. A two year old is about a foot long and the scutes (modified scales) are sharp as hell. You can't wear gloves when you handle them either so your hands get cut up real bad. I loved taking care of them. They're like giant, muscly, slimy dogs.

Females will lay roughly 3 million eggs per spawn and the eggs will hatch after about 6 days. A newly hatched white sturgeon is a few millimeters long. Crazy to think about.

This is my jar of dead babies.

NUMBER 3: Frog fish!

Wish I could remember who took this photo!

Frog fish have specially adapted pectoral fins that they use almost like legs! They're bottom dwellers and "walk" along the sea floor.

I don't know much about them I'm afraid. My brain was almost entirely consumed by rainbow trout and white sturgeon.

These guys look so grumpy! (I like to say my 'fursona' is just a regular ol' frog fish lol)

NUMBER 4: A fish my family had for about 15 years... A bloodred parrot cichlid named Sir Rupert Finklebottom III, Esq. (We learned she was female when she was about 9 years old)

These fish are man made abominations and I do not recommend owning them. They have horrible health issues and they have nasty personalities. We had two of them. Rupert and Regina. Because they're crossbreeds they're essentially infertile. Rupert and Regina both laid thousands of unfertilized eggs when they were roughly 9 years old. They only did this once. They ate all of their eggs within a week.

People say they're good community tank fish. They are not. They're aggressive little assholes. Ours had to live in their own tank and they'd try to bite you if you put your fingers in their tank (it didn't hurt because they can't close their mouths and have no teeth.)

They have malformed swim bladders and are just generally awful fish. But boy do I miss my Rupert and Regina.

And finally

NUMBER 5: All manner of eels. For the purposes of this I'm going to say Rock Gunnels.

These slippery little dudes are sharp as hell. When I did a practicum at an oyster farm these dudes kept getting pulled up in the oyster beds and I ran around scooping them up and tossing them back into the sea. They come in a variety of vibrant colours too!

BONUS FISH:

This abomination. It's a lamprey of some sort. And if I gotta look at this thing so does everyone else.

[larabar]

well now we gotta come full circle hbjsdfhbj top 3 marine animals >:]

AA YAYYYY MY GUYS !!!!!!!!!!!

ok ummmm ill try my best to not make them all cetaceans

3. oceanic white tip shark they are round!!! and have fish friends!!!! 10/10 best shark everyone except bamboo sharks go home

2. any sturgeon literally any of them. roping arapaimas in there too i love big freshwater fish :]

1. ORCAS RRAAAAA theyre my everything i cannot express. how much i adore them. specifically pack ice large type b's theyve got big ol eye(patch)s

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