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Developer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Southern Oregon
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Bubble-head fish
Here's an article about a bizarre fish with a clear dome for a forehead:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ure/index.html (Don't ask for one of these in the Aquarium - people wouldn't believe it!)
Jim Sachs
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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wow... some survival evolution...
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: North Carolina
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that was one wierd looking fish but kind of neat at the same time I like seeing animals that have never been seen before or at least hardly never seen
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#4 |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Hiko, CommieFagnia
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Very bizarre Jim. Made me think about the poor spiny
eels I use to have that got white spots and died. lol |
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Smilie Dragon
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Lebanon, PA
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hahahahaha That was cool. Thanks for the share.
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Victoria, BC.Canada
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That is some survival technic.
What a fasinating story. What is under the surface always amazes me...... Thanks for the links Jim, a great story. (and No , I do not want it in my aquarium ![]() |
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#7 |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: New York
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Thanks for posting this Jim! I am someone who greatly appreciates the obscure absurdities of life forms in general, and fish in particular
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#8 |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MIssouri
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awww...c'mon...if they can have a crystal that does everything but play Pacman, can't I have a crystal-headed fish?? *wink wink
that was awesome video..thanks for sharing |
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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They showed that clip on MSNBC (I think that was the channel) last night
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#10 |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: New York
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I second iMark's suggestion...
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#11 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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It looks fake.
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#13 |
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Victoria, BC.Canada
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How about a Psychedelic bouncing fish to go along with the Bubble Head.
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Smilie Dragon
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Lebanon, PA
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That was cool.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MIssouri
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hey...if we can't have a crystalhead fish...how about one of these new "Psychedelica" fish?
"A kind of frogfish overlooked for years and then rediscovered in the wild in 2008 has now been officially named as a new species. Its broad, flat face with forward-looking eyes, among other body features, and its DNA distinguish it from other Histiophryne frogfish, researchers report in the journal Copeia. It behaves unusually too, for example squirting out little jets of water that propel it along in irregular, arcing hops. What earned the fish the species epithet psychedelica are the swirling stripes. Sports divers spotted it as a novelty off Indonesia’s Ambon Island in 2008 and sent pictures to Ted Pietsch of the University of Washington in Seattle. The images jogged his memory of two faded, damaged frogfish specimens from Bali he had been storing since 1992. Reexamining their almost white bodies, Pietsch could detect traces of once-glorious stripes like those of fish at Ambon documented by photographer David Hall." — Susan Milius sound fun? |
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#17 |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MIssouri
Posts: 105
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another pic or two...
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#18 |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MIssouri
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oops....sorry...I totally missed chippy's post
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