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Back to with a literal take on the theme "Fish Battle Royale" - the battle between native lake trout + invasive sea lamprey in the is one time when it's accurate to refer to your opponent as a "bloodsucker" (lampreys are cool in their native range!)

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2022-02-06

of the aquarium for German Blue Ram Cichlid (Mikrogeophagus Ramirezi) vs. the “Bengal” Tiger Barb (Puntigrus pentazona). Love the challenging prompt to sketch 2 fish species I’d like to see battle in the 2022

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2022-02-06

I get to swim with broadnose sevengill sharks in the open ocean tank as a dive volunteer at . Super chill, they mostly hang out in the upper area of the tank and ignore me. Sevengills are the only shark on the west coast with seven gill slits.

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2022-01-31

A repost of a nurse shark for I had fun with trying a new technique. Nurse sharks are ovoviviparous: they gestate embryos inside eggs for six months before birthing around 20 pups.

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2022-01-31

Today's is a bit off topic, though I would like to see this fish. It is a success story in sustainability: the Acadian redfish. It is found in the Northwestern Atlantic. It is a fish that had been low in numbers back in the 1990s,

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2022-01-17


Fish comic illustration for a popular-scientific presentation.
Heavily anthropomorphized this time to set the desired mood effectively. 3/3

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2022-01-17

hello i made these pixels quite some time ago - by now they are an integral part of my social media presence. the pair shows a daylight and a dark, bioluminescent version! i still love them dearly and will always be fascinated by this species.

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2022-01-17

My is of a spotted archerfish (Toxotes chatareus), which has the ability to shoot water a distance of almost 5 ft out of the water, and can target its prey items just as far away! They can also recognize human faces, and this one is happy to see you :)

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2022-01-10

Been too busy to paint recently, but here are some paintings I did in between flights and rapid tests.

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2022-01-04

in progress. It's an endangered fish, can you tell which one?

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2022-01-03

For nothing says more holiday than a full festivity.
Here directly from my homeland the Mesonauta festivum, acará bandeira or cichlid festivus.

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2021-12-27

My that includes some featured fish and a Christmas tree worm. Happy holidays everyone!

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2021-12-26

I recently recycled a sketch… I really lile the as Rudolph 🥳🤩☃️🦈

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2021-12-26

Hello friends and followers, I didn't forget about it's combined with I've gotten requests for shark drawings so why not share them finally!

California has a wide variety of shark species, but these three are the ones relevant to my research.

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2021-12-20

Thanks again to and the whole crew for another great year of guessing and sketching fish! All of this year's mystery species were (unintentionally) very colorful - the bluegill, white sucker, and yellow perch!

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2021-12-20