Monday, April 21, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Friday, January 24, 2014
Octopus Babies
Octopodes string their soft, translucent eggs up on overhangs of rock or coral. The females lay hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time and will stay to guard them against hungry predators until they hatch. This often takes so long that she begins to starve and some octopuses will eat their own arms to survive. Once her thousands of tiny offspring are hatched, they feed on microscopic organisms like plankton until they grow large enough to live on the sea floor as adults. The mother, often disabled, will generally be eaten by a predator once she leaves her lair because she has grown too weak to defend herself.
Mermaid's Purse
Most sharks and skates lay strangely shaped eggs sometimes called a ‘mermaid’s purse.’ These consist of an egg case in a thin capsule made of collagen. They often are square or rectangular with stringy or pointy corner horns, but can come in a variety of odd shapes. A few sharks, such as the Port Jackson shark, have helical egg cases which are secured into the sand like drill bits. Shark eggs can wash up on the beach and are often hand-sized, although the largest recorded was over 2m long. Female sharks lay fertilized eggs onto the sea floor where they stay until they hatch, not needing any more attention from their mother. Some shark eggs contain several baby sharks which cannibalize each other before hatching to ensure that only the strongest baby survives.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Dreams Matter
I want to visit
the seashore by 18 so
why are we waiting
so log to wait for a dream
I want to go now, do you?
Poetry by Elizabeth
@ about age 13
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Copperband Butterflyfish
Also commonly known as the beaked coral fish, are usually found on coral reefs or rocky shorelines, and also in estuaries and silty inner reefs.
Copper band butterfly fish can grow to 8 inches (20 cm) but in a home aquarium are usually half that size.They do well at a normal reef temperature range of 75 to 84 °F (24 to 29 °C), with a tank size of at least 75 gallons and plenty of live rock to graze on. This species can be considered reef safe.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Small Cute & Deadly
The blue-ringed octopus is 5 to 8 in, but its venom is powerful enough to kill humans. No blue-ringed octopus anti venom is available yet making it one of the deadliest reef inhabitants in the ocean.
The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine.The major neurotoxin component of the blue-ringed octopus is a venom that was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin also found in puffer fish and some poison dart frogs that is 10,000 times more toxic than cyanide.
The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine.The major neurotoxin component of the blue-ringed octopus is a venom that was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin also found in puffer fish and some poison dart frogs that is 10,000 times more toxic than cyanide.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Awsome monofins I want to get
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