BLOB FISH PROJECT (for school)

BLOB FISH

 Waters around Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand are all places where you will find blob fish. This fish was crowned the Ugliest Animal in the World. The fish actually nests more than 9000 eggs, which is strange for an animal near extinction. The fish rarely seen by humans, blob fish are in the family of Psychrolutidae. 

Blob fish are typically shorter than 30 cm. They live at depths

 between 600 and 1,200 m (2,000 and 3,900 ft) where  the

pressure is 60 to 120 times as great as at sea level, which would

 likely make gas bladders inefficient for maintaining buoyancy.

WHAT THEY EAT:

The blob fish eats invertebrates like crabs, sea pens and mollusks.

Blob fish have no muscles! The materials that they are made out of are things that are just a bit lighter than water, which makes these rare creatures float a small distance above the seafloor. Known as bottom dwellers, blob fish do not travel much higher than just above the seafloor. They can live at depths up to 2,700 feet below the surface of the water.

       Blob fish will  remain still almost their entire lives. 

They only want to move if there is or might be food nearby. Some of these amazing creatures could actually starve to death because food might be too little in the area where they are. Unlike other fish, blob fish do not have swim bladders to help them float in the water at various levels.

Despite that they are fat, blob fish actually feast on very small, even microscopic animals. They eat by sucking in the food when any food floats close to them. 

IN MY OPINION THEY ARE ADORABLE AND CUTE!

   IN MY OPINION THEY ARE CUTE!

Thank you this was

  by

EMILY HOYER