r/ocean

As the title cites, I am tired of people bullying the blob fish. Evertime I google top 10 ugliest fishes, it always shows up at the top of the ranking. It's face has become a meme all over the internet and it's name is horrible it dosent even look like a blob in it's natural enviroment. It was taken from the deep sea, where it physiology has adapted, photographed while looking it's worse and now is being bullied.

It just wants to mind it's buiness and eat organic debris and small fishes or crabs.

The blob fish (I think it looks cute)

Brain corals beneath small underwater shades regained color during a punishing Florida Keys summer, while nearby unshaded colonies continued paling. The structures did not cool the sea. Instead, they reduced incoming light, easing a stress that can make heat-related bleaching worse.

The field experiment, led by Karen Neely of Nova Southeastern University, tested two vulnerable Caribbean coral species. Published in Frontiers in Marine Science, it offers evidence for temporary protection of individual colonies. It does not establish a method for protecting entire reefs or preventing deaths during more severe heatwaves.

Both shaded and unshaded corals survived the bleaching stress during the trial. That limits what the results demonstrate, but the color differences were clear. They were greatest during the most thermally stressful periods.