A blog by a college student that loves creating vivariums, but can't afford to do so. Pictures are not mine (even if I wish they were) unless stated; that being said, the header photo with the horrifically dirty glass is mine!
sometimes I think about how red is the first color in the visible light spectrum to be absorbed in ocean water
and how many deep-sea creatures evolved to be red as a stealth adaptation, making them near invisible when there’s little to no light present
and it makes me think. If there’s never any visible light present in these animals’ lifetimes, if no ROV shines a little flashlight in depths that would otherwise not have light, would these animals ever get the opportunity to actually be red? that might be a stupid question.
imagine being a little deep sea creature and having no idea you’re red until something comes along and shines a light on you except you still wouldn’t be able to tell because you’re probably colorblind. anyway. I don’t know where I was going with this post
“We also got a question wanting to know whether James has discovered something that’s not just new to him, but new to science. And it turns out he has! He found this ciliate a few months ago and couldn’t identify it, so he contacted some scientists working on this group of organisms. There are reports of similar species from the 1930s, but so far no description matches what he’s found. So James is working on trying to culture them and maybe do some genomic analysis, and hopefully he’ll get to write a paper and name the organism. If he gets to do that, we might even ask you all tho pitch some ideas!“
Journey to the Microcosmos- Why Did We Start This Channel? (And Other Questions You’ve Been Asking)
The Chihiros WRGB II makes such an intense light in RL, but I need to adjust it a bit. It is is still a bit too red especially on pictures, even if the red swimming plant is too blame, too.
Also because I have hardly any green plants in this tank left.
The old RGB for comparison. A steady 3600K always looks nice. Will lean towards this more natural colours again, I thinkm