#ocean fish

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Being a fish with hands is certainly useful when getting into a stoush with those nasty invasive starfish.

Spotted Handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus)

Derwent River estuary, Tasmania, Australia

Status: Critically Endangered

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🐠 Daily Fish Fact: 🐠

Pinnate Batfish adults are normally solitary but will gather in large schools to move over open substrates. The juveniles are mimics of a toxic species of flatworm by colour and shape. They feed on algae as well as jellyfish and other gelatinous zooplankton. This species has been observed to significantly reduce algal growths on coral in studies simulating the effects of overfishing on the Great Barrier Reef.

[chunkfunkgunk-offishal]

Today on CHUNK! FUNK! GUNK! We rate

the MORAY EEL:

8/10 Chunk

10/10 Gunk

8/10 Funk

It’s been a long time coming, and anyone who’s been following this blog for any amount of time is well aware of my obsession with these funny wiggly boys.

Moray eels. My beloveds. Look at that girth, high chunk. The slime layer that makes it so that I cannot hug them without a proper wetsuit or fabric layer, absolute gunk. The big squishable cheeks, the weird sticky-out-y tube nostrils, the two mouths, incredibly funky.

Overall: 10/10

Everyone has a selfish dream of what they would do if they won the lottery. Mine is simple: buy a giant saltwater tank and fill it with 3 giant moray eels. (Preferably of different colors/patterns so I can tell them apart)

Everyone also has a dream of channeling their inner Disney Princess with a wild animal: I want to hug a moray eel.

It was my birthday on the 18th, so as a gift to myself, I rate my beloveds.

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Clown frogfish (Antennarius marculatus) by Gary Bell

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Alcohol Marker fishys

A couple of alcohol marker fish I drew while away on vacation. Trying to decide if i should start offering my marker art on etsy, I know its not very light-fast so I worry about selling the originals.

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Katsushika Taito II

Carp

ca. 1830-1854

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Photo credit by me @agoraphobicwasteland

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Fish ! 🐟🐠🐡

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[lizardsaredinosaurs]

How feared was Cap'n Quillback in his day? He had poisonous quills embedded in his back—imagine that character pulling up to your schooner and you'd drop your gold, too.

Quillback Rockfish (Sebastes maliger)

North Pacific Ocean

Status: Threatened in Canada

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🐠 Daily Fish Fact: 🐠

Adult Queen Angelfish are selective feeders and primarily eat sponges. Their social structure consists of harems which include one male and up to four females. They live within a territory where the females forage separately and are tended to by the male. Breeding in the species occurs near a full moon.

[chunkfunkgunk-offishal]

Long ago, I promised you wonderful gunkers that I would share some of my silly moray eel memes, and finally,

That day has come.

I hope that you enjoy the fruits of my eel hyperfixation (=´∀｀)

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Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus)

Photos by Pete Oxford