Today on CHUNK! FUNK! GUNK! We rate
the MORAY EEL:
8/10 Chunk
10/10 Gunk
8/10 Funk
It’s been a long time coming, and anyone who’s been following this blog for any amount of time is well aware of my obsession with these funny wiggly boys.
Moray eels. My beloveds. Look at that girth, high chunk. The slime layer that makes it so that I cannot hug them without a proper wetsuit or fabric layer, absolute gunk. The big squishable cheeks, the weird sticky-out-y tube nostrils, the two mouths, incredibly funky.
Overall: 10/10
Everyone has a selfish dream of what they would do if they won the lottery. Mine is simple: buy a giant saltwater tank and fill it with 3 giant moray eels. (Preferably of different colors/patterns so I can tell them apart)
Everyone also has a dream of channeling their inner Disney Princess with a wild animal: I want to hug a moray eel.
It was my birthday on the 18th, so as a gift to myself, I rate my beloveds.
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🐠 Daily Fish Fact: 🐠
Adult Queen Angelfish are selective feeders and primarily eat sponges. Their social structure consists of harems which include one male and up to four females. They live within a territory where the females forage separately and are tended to by the male. Breeding in the species occurs near a full moon.
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Pufferfish study. God built these fish to smile cutely forever. As opposed to scorpion fish, that God built to frown grouchily forever.
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Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striatus)
West Indies, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico
Critically Endangered
Threats: overfishing, loss of coral reefs
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Some fish I enjoy. Accurate? No, not at all.
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Cabezon
The cabezon is a large species of sculpin native to the Pacific coast of North America. Although the genus name translates literally as "scorpion fish", true scorpionfish belong to the related family Scorpaenidae. The cabezon is the only known member of its genus. This Cabezon was caught off the rocks of the Santa Barbara Coast. It provided enough for the four of us that night over a fire on the beach. Flavor is close to lobster, especially fried in butter!
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Long ago, I promised you wonderful gunkers that I would share some of my silly moray eel memes, and finally,
That day has come.
I hope that you enjoy the fruits of my eel hyperfixation (=´∀`)
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🐠 Daily Fish Fact: 🐠
The Rainbow Parrotfish is among the largest members of its family, and the largest in the Atlantic, reaching 3.9 ft in length. This fish species is known to have a home cave to which it retires at night or when danger threatens; it makes use of the sun as an aid to locating the cave.
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Trying our hand at deep fishing! Willy would be proud
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