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This was sitting unfinished for a long time but I finally got to it! Just a lil guy to celebrate the summer.

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plaguedocboi

Stage 4 Loblings!!!

plaguedocboi

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

#loblings!

birdsareblooming

sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

birdsareblooming

holy shit is that kate bush

amazoogle

the enemy drank water today. did you?

ewoly5

i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win

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tsalala

“My very first sighting of the most popular Tigress Riddhi, marking her territory between zone 2-3 and walking gracefully near the iconic Choti Chathri in Ranthambore. Blending the raw beauty of the wild with the timeless charm of history.”

Taken in Ranthambhore National Park, India Photographed by Sunil Naik

sandelion

To break up the pattern of taking the same pictures of the same snakes over and over, I've started taking two out at a time

i-m-snek

Cole in the sun VS in the shade!

firagasoap

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

ma-gpie

herpsandbirds

Curl Snake (Suta suta), family Elapidae, QLD, Australia

Venomous.

photograph by Rob Valentic

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hurtstohope

i have big plans to try and sew a little felt mouse and it might go badly and that’s okay

hurtstohope

he exists bc i made him

#he's so cute

sandelion

tabaquis-creatures

post-shed pretty boy

ashmcgivern

Me creatures, Lil Mans and Pesto, doing their daily activities.

Bonus round you get a normal colored Lined Day Gecko because my son is aytpically dull in color lol.

desolationlesbian

I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

the-long-dog

I've spent so long learning 3d modeling and sometimes I think about selling some of my stuff at an art market but I don't know if it would be welcome. Because it is plastic and 3d printed but also I spent hours upon hours sculpting it and no one else owns the design.

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c3rvida3

I put a collar on him since you can wag his tail. :)

(made with an antique celluloid fawn toy and an articulated fishing lure)

ducissatenebrarum

Tiny creature writing things, Switzerland, 16th century

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