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Here's my "lazy" foliage tutorial! 🍀

(I say "lazy" in quotes as I consider this method a shortcut, but still requires some effort for the drawing to look nice)

Gif version of the process:

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Building a home for a toadlet

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What a colorful world ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Diving into a world of vibrant hues and underwater wonders at the Aquarium! 🌈🐠✨

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Holy mola! It’s feeding time!

Check out how we train our mola to come to the surface of the Open Sea exhibit to chow down on some delicious food!

Fun fact: Inside a mola's tiny mouth are two pairs of hard teeth plates shaped with a slightly curved ridge, resembling a bird's beak. Here’s the twist: The mola doesn’t chew its food! 😳

Instead, it sucks the food in and out (especially in the case of jellies) until it’s reduced to gelatinous chunks. Here at the Aquarium, we make a special gelatin-formula that allows our mola to munch on food just the way it would in the wild.

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🐚New shell, new me! ✨

Hermit crabs are temporary tenants of their mobile homes—just like we need new clothes as we grow, hermit crabs too must search for a new shell as they outgrow their old one. But shellecting their new digs can be tricky business—it can’t be too big or too small, too heavy or too damaged, and of course, it can’t be already occupied by another hermit crab, or worse, its original gastropod designer! 

After a quick inspection, move-in is a snap. (After all, a naked hermit crab is a hermit crab snack to potential predators…) They’ll line their shells up, wiggle out of the old, and settle into the new in seconds, leaving the old shell behind for the next hermit crab looking for an upgrade.  

If you’re looking for these couture crustaceans along the shore, remember to practice tidepool etiquette—no shellfish behavior allowed! Please leave those empty shells undisturbed for potential hermit homes. 🌊🐚

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Gorgonocephalidae

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❄️🔮A snow globe jelly sea-renade 🪼💙

In twilight's hush, a jelly gleams, Delicate beauty in silent dreams. Jewel-like gut, a red disguise, Camouflaged where darkness lies.

In the deep sea's vast expanse, A drifter floats in a subtle dance. Where red light falters, can't dare to breach, No danger near, as shadows teach.

A ballet of hues, in twilight's embrace, The jelly floats, a marvel of grace. Camouflaged gem in the deep sea's cover, Safe from the light, a stealthy rover.

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PDJSDM2301 - Female

Pattern notes: Really cool pattern on her, nice dark saddles and lots of contrast

Personality notes: Confident! Not bitey or hissy, rattles some but in general is p calm

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🌊🐠 Get ready for a fintastic showdown, as our social media crew dives into the deep end with the brand new plastic-free Monterey Bay Aquarium Monopoly! 🎮🎩

Join us LIVE on Twitch and YouTube this Thursday (12/14) at 3 p.m. PT, where we'll be navigating the underwater world of Monterey Bay, making waves, and striving to be the ultimate Monopoly tycoons! 🌊💸

🎲 Who will ride the tide to triumph? Cast your vote and catch all the searious fun on Twitch and YouTubel! 🌊👾 Don't be shellfish—invite your friends, and let's make this stream a reel splash! 🦑✨

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hey. don't cry. squished nubby sleeping under his ziggurat, ok?

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hey bubby

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How do you train a fish??

Join us on a journey from wee fry to terrific titans and learn how our aquarists train our giant sea bass 🐟💪😍

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Snug as a Nub in an Ikea Rug

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sandwhiched

absolutely flattened

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Juvenile Fish Explore the Enchanted Kelp Forest | The Critter Corner

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Having a.. not so great day so I cleaned and rearranged Tiger's tank some