How "cool" are these little guys? Balloon Lumpfish (Eumicrotremus pacificus)

[revhtree]

How "cool" are these little guys?

Balloon Lumpfish (Eumicrotremus pacificus) attach themselves to balloons at the Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium on July 9, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The deep-sea fish have ventral sucker disks which help them to cling to rocks in the water.

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[revhtree]

Cold Water Marine Aquatics says this about them:

Eumicrotremus spp have been bred by public aquariums succesfully since the mid 90's. The ones pictured here have a reported max size of 7 inches. Temps would be ideal in the 55-60 range. They will eat most small crustaceans, so frozen mysid shrimp would be ideal

 

[uall8up]

AHHHH I want them in my tank!!! They are ADORABLE!!!

 

[FateX8]

haha it took me a while but i finally got what you did there with "cool"

 

[wysiwyg]

wow they are so adorable my wife would love them

 

[feh]

Making me want a cold water tank...

 

[impur]

So cool i thought they were fake too!

 

[strange33w]

Those are pretty cool

 

[gordonj1]

Adorable Fish!

I want a couple of these guys! They are so cute!:nerd:

 

[Paranoidobseshun]

Very cool looking fish. Neat how they latch onto stuff.

 

[revhtree]

Very cool looking fish. Neat how they latch onto stuff.

Awesome photo!

 

[revhtree]

Here are a few more pics from the same source.

 

[revsgirl]

Love! Love! Love! This fish!! I see a cold water nano in my future!! :angel:

 

[dhnguyen]

They are lumpsuckers and are native to the PNW and Puget Sound area.
They only come out during the winter however.

New years eve LUMPSUCKER dive! - YouTube

[video=youtube;pZucaiIFcso]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZucaiIFcso[/video]

 

[KSzegi]

Definitely would make a cold water tank worth it ..... very neat fish!!

 

[NanaReefer]

Wonderful video! Sweet lil fish

 

[Pkunk35]

Here are a few more pics from the same source.

Totally cool. They look like angler fish crossed with puffer fish. That sucker is one of the weirdest fish adaptions I've seen...how the heck did it get on the fish's belly like that?

 

[FantasyCorals]

These are sooooo cute! But, did you see what they look like as adults??? Not so much.

 

[Giancarlo]

I thought those were fake too

 

[AsphaltPays]

Great pics and video cool little fish


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