Squid Banquet

I’ve got similar nassarius snails in my reef tank. Clean up crew all stars.

Nature needs clean up crews. Would be far worse to just have slowly rotting corpses everywhere all the time.

Without clean up crews they would not be rotting in the first place. Show some respect to our microscopic crews ✊

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This just reminds me about the period of time in history when apparently trees has evolved lignin before fungi (which break it down) had evolved leading to massive piles of trees and other plant matter that just sat around and couldn’t be broken down and lead to massive fires that could burn for decades and cover millions of acres.

Also lead to a lot of oil being made from trees that never fully decomposed.

Shh… dont say that too loud or WW3 will end up being against fun guys.

iirc terrestrial plant life mostly leads to natural gas, oceanic/lake detritus is more conducive to creating oil.

That’s how you end up with a carboniferous period

I lovingly refer to them as my zombie snails, and I love to show them off to people when they see me feeding my tank. However, I did lose one after it had climbed up to the top and hitched a ride on my canopy, which I had removed to do some maintenance and I found the shell eventually. But that’s unusual because they usually can’t climb too high up, especially above the water line.

For a second I read that as “narcissus snails” and wondered what could make a person think a snail was vain.

Snail-o-rama

Before anyone freaks out, this is of course sped up

You should have said slowed down, just freak people out more

I wasn’t freaked out but ty

I am intrigued. Looked like the gravel just came to life

I have hermit crabs. It’s sped up, but not by much. When they smell food they really get to it.

Of course, and I definitely knew that. (¬_¬)

Don’t tell them that, instead tell them this is the reason you shouldn’t stand too long in the water.

Rhode Islanders when the calamari hits the table.

Zerg Burrow

I can still hear the sound of them unburrowing decades later

The ocean (without mans influence) is the most well balanced circle of life.

barring the 7 extinction events in the Earth’s history.

Sharks are older than trees. Try again sweetie

OK? Things can and have survived mass extinction events, hence every living thing we see around us.

Lol does bro think mass extinction event means literally everything dies?

Neat. Condescending *and* missing the point.

The point is that WE are in the circle of life, and even without our influence there has been plenty of imbalance. There is no need to elevate it above reality. This wreaks of wise native tropes.

Wow. I just thought the oceans eco system from sharks to plankton to little crab like things living under the sand eating a dead squid was pretty neat. But hey never miss an opportunity to flex a superiority complex on reddit.