HulloThere
PhD student at Southampton, studying mesopelagic fish ecology. Occasional writer and amateur baker. Tweets about fish in superlatives. Opinions my own.
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmej... Some really cool stuff in this video from @schmidtocean.bsky.social - incredibly jealous of that big beautiful Idiacanthus dragonfish, I gotta get myself on a cruise with a proper pelagic net someday 🥺
- You know, I'm a predator guy through and through (basically all we've got in the mesopelagic!) but filter feeders can look sooooo cool when they wanna
- Skeleton shrimp: superior snackers This amphipod in the family Caprellidae, has feather-like setae line several of their 18 appendages for collecting food — amphipod translates to “feet on all sides” in Greek. #argentiniandeepseeps ~1200 meters
- YESSSS look at THAT! Very reasonable candidate for weirdest fish alive
- Zanclus were a very hard species to reject from last year’s Fishmas list of monospecific families, but I think I made the right choice. Also: if you’ve never been to a reef habitat, I cannot overstate how *nuts* it feels to walk along the shore and see tropical fish vibing in the water next to you.
- Can't stop seeing that as someone scooping up a massive ciabatta out of a pizza ove
