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Fish

Photography, Artwork, and Writing by:
Nathan Malinoski and Ronel Trias


 

Like a unicycle, this spotted boxfish is consistently shifting to keep its rectangular body upright. It also has a set of puckered lips, ready to kiss its food goodbye. This colorful fish emits a poison through its skin killing everything around it, including itself. It does this to escape predators and only dies if the poison gets too concentrated.

-Nathan Malinoski


This zebra moray can be found in Hawaii. Unlike other eels this zebra moray has crushing molars instead of razor sharp teeth. Their molars are used to crush crustaceans' hard shells. They are just regular animals searching for food. If they couldn’t eat they would die out. If they die out, there would be a lot of crustaceans and as the population would grow, the fish would get eaten and die out. Crazy as it seems, this eel is very important to our environment

-Ronel Trias


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