Mermay Day 27 - Ribbon Eel!⁠
Also known as the Leaf-nosed Moray or Bernis eel, these sinuous and beautiful eels like to twist their brightly-coloured bodies through crevices of coral, popping out to smile at passing divers.⁠

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Ribbon eels are just so pretty ✨

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OK, all you exceptional eels & elvers, it's time for the revEEL. This week's featured creature is a sneaky imposter. Meet Braun's Pughead Pipefish (#Bulbonaricus_brauni), a species belonging to the family
https://t.co/h1wBbwhDie

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Day 12 of is the Shortfin eel! One of 3 freshwater eels found in NZ.

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So, we're back to this again, but with a question:

Do things like worms, eels, similar critters, etc. count as as a genre? Or would they be their own separate thing?

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EELS EMPTY I THOGUHGT HE WAS A CRASAUNT

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Let's end the week talking about congers in heraldry!

Like freshwater eels, congers showed up in English heraldry. And they still do sometimes! Here's the 1967 coat of arms for the town of Congleton, with 2 congers surrounding a floating tun.

Get it? Conger + tun = Congleton!

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The shell-shocked diver tried to what he'd seen. The consensus was that he'd hallucinated from oxygen loss, but he was adamant it had been real.

The mermaid's hair was made of eels, their skeletons lit up with electricity. He'd barely escaped with his life.

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Lily's mermaid form is eels~ Her wisps are sea bunnies! 🐇🧜🏽‍♀️

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So you've decided to pay your rent in medieval eels. But how do you count them?

Eels were counted in units called sticks, w/ 25 eels to a stick. The term "stick" likely comes from the number of eels you can smoke on a stick at one time.

10 sticks of eels was called a bind.1/2

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Reminds me of my hydra eel 9 eels sharing a tunnel with only their hungry heads sticking out. https://t.co/ufV2HC7tB3

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RIDDLE SQUOSHED BY EELS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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electric eels after you call yourself free thinker

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This is a small art and perspective test I did a little while ago.

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Sometimes the food goes bad before you use it. Then what?

Just don't be like Salamon Salamon! In 1390, the London fishmonger was charged w/ hiding his bad eels in someone else's cellar. This was his second offense: earlier he was caught slipping rotting eels into a local well!

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If you wonder why I love eels so much please read this blog where I talk about why I love eels so much.

https://t.co/aN9vfRJyJj

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River Lamprey grow up to 50cm. They are often mistaken for eels.

Tench grow up to 70cm. They are very meaty.

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