#stonefish

[respect-the-locals]

🐠 Daily Fish Fact: 🐠

Stonefish are the most venomous fish known; stings can be fatal to humans. Most stonefish stings occur as a result of stepping on the creature which forces venom into the foot, while it is less common for the fish to sting when it is picked up. Stonefish stings can occur on the beach, not just in the water, since stonefish can survive out of the water for up to 24 hours. They are not easily seen as they look similar to rocks or coral.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Stones can move quite quickly...when they’re fish. Stonefish are generally sedentary beings, spending their time camouflaged on the ocean floor waiting for prey-- usually small fish and crustaceans-- to swim past. When an opportunity presents itself, they strike with incredible speed! The fastest recorded attack was clocked at only 0.015 seconds.

(Image: A reef stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa) hiding among the coral by Erik Schlögl)

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[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa)

(Photo from Australian Museum)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Indo-Pacific Ocean

Size (Weight/Length)- 40 cm

Diet- Fish; Crustaceans

Cool Facts- Reef stonefish are the singular reason I’m terrified of going past my knees into a tidepool. Stonefish are ambush predators, blending in with their surroundings and waiting for an unsuspecting fish to dart overhead. Striking and swallowing their prey whole in less than 0.015 seconds, these fish have massive appetites. Reef stonefish are the most venomous fish in the world. The spines along their dorsal fin are sharp enough to pierce the bottom of a shoe and the venom is fatal in even the smallest doses. Luckily to humans, the venom is slow acting and can often be treated with limited nerve damage. Thankfully, reef stonefish are solitary outside of the breeding season and are more likely to move than be stepped on.

Rating- 12/10 (One of my largest irrational fears despite not living anywhere near the ocean.)

[jamesnelsonart]

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Sea Creatures Mosaic, originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, is a stunning artwork displayed at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples

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“Creatives have reputations for floating in unreality. It’s true that what they espouse hints of magic and mystery, having little to do with what the larger world calls real. People like [this] are labeled ‘hermit,’ ‘madman,’ 'eccentric.’ Because they don’t live as others live, or accept the routine that makes the world go round, they are blamed, ridiculed, barely accepted as members of society. They are driven […] to greater extremes and further isolation, and rarely helped to do what they are born to do. Some do it anyway, and anyone who doubts the groundedness necessary for such a life should try it. To face each day supported, not by the dictates of a reliable outer framework, but by a chosen obedience to an inner necessity, one has to have one’s feet on the ground.” — Leif Anderson, from “Grounded,” Dancing with My Father (University Press of Mississippi, 2005)

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POETRY / MAGGIE SMITH :: Stonefish ::

There are fish in the black trenches of the sea that look like rocks. Their poison shouldn’t trouble me. They are so deep, we’ll never touch. But I think of them. If it is paranoid to believe there is a trench in me the doctors haven’t dragged, a cave no one’s plumbed with light, then fine, I’m paranoid. But whatever plaques and tangles, whatever cells wait deadly with their terrible hunger must be disguised. You should know the most venomous fish lives in the shallows. It also looks like a rock.

[pheonixdrop]

MERMAY - day 8

Zenix the Stonefish!

[gennsoup]

Now, here is wherever you find me, and nowhere is where I'll be.

Keri Hulme, Floating Words

[emperor-kazuki]

my friend {Left}, and I {Right}, 『 as our Pokésona 』 about to enjoy an exotic dish : P

[hasellia]

I'm trying to go with a Malay / Singapore inspiration for this fakémon line. Its evolution is Marsinga, the merlion fakémon. If any Singaporean or Malay peeps have any input they'd like to add, I'd be more than happy to listen!

Geodempu

the Stone Scorpion Pokémon.

Poison / Rock

Ability: Water absorb | HA: Poison Point

x̄ Length: 45 cm | Weight: 6.3 kg

"Many travellers mistake Geodempu for Geodude. Aside from inhabiting coastal environments, Geodumpu can be differentiated by the fast acting Poison injected upon contact."

[mataglap]

I felt bad for scaring y'all with nitrogen narcosis, so here's one of my underwater photos, featuring an extremely venomous stonefish :)

[general-gh0st]

[jakobos]

Mermay - The Siren Isle Day 5

Stonefish

[crypticofthedeep]

The lionfish exhibit is so cool, but the black lionfish stole the show. They also had a stonefish buddy.

[mushiver]

Woah that's a cool looking rock, almost looks like a highly toxic stonefish yeeeEEEOOOOOOOUCH

[thegreateyeofsauron]

hank hill wouldn’t of let toadfish push him around like homer/omaryn simpson did. if toadfish tried to move in and take over his house he would’ve shown that mulleted fuck why it’s called proPAIN. and then when stonefish travels through his phone to kick his ass for not liking toadfish hank would give him a one way ticket to clean burning hell.