LORE: 1. Spine Eel: An apex predator. It is an ambush predator, a fact evident in its lack of large fins for quick chases, and instead the presence of a lot more spikes and armor on its body. Its head is a web of exposed muscles and veins, which provide enough power to its mineral-reinforced beak to break apart a material rated 9 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, such as rubies. Its prey is hard-shelled herbivores, creatures that no other predator could hope to consume. Its head also contains three long eyes on each side, much longer than they are wide, with abyssal pupils. Its brain is about the size of a toaster, making it potentially smarter than humans, although completely unable to do anything due to the lack of manipulating appendages like hands. It has an extremely long body, which goes way off screen here, but its body looks a lot like some kind of thorny plant vine. At the end of its long body is a highly venomous spine/barb, which it uses not to hunt, but to defend itself from other spine eels or other large predators. It also uses it against humans. 2. Claw Angler: an intermediate predator which is highly immobile due to its strange body configuration. It usually just floats around in the deep abyss, using its lights to guide primitive soft-bodied prey to its mouth. It also has a claw on the other side of its body, which it uses to attack or grab onto prey, giving this predator a 360 degree field of attack. The predator also uses this claw for self defense, and for extremely weak propulsion underwater by consecutively opening and closing the claw. Poses no real threat to humans unless you get too close, where it can cause severe ripping injuries. 3. Spine Stabber: Not related to the Spine Eel in really any way despite the usage of the word "spine" in both. It is the size of an alligator gar on Earth. This is a very fast hunter, with a shrimp-like body and strange, colorful filaments growing off of its thorax. These filaments do not serve any purpose and are most likely a result of sexual selection amongst the species. This fish has an eye stalk, granting it a wide field of view. It has a very large bony extension out of its body, which resembles a jaw with no bottom jaw. The creature, in hunting or fighting, will violently impale the target with its larger fang, or bludgeon the unfortunate creature with its more blunt "molar" teeth. It seems the fang serves to hunt shelled creatures, and the blunt teeth to stun or kill softer creatures. It has mandibles similar to a crab to eat the dead prey. 4. Hairstring Cyclops Fish: a curious symbiotic organism. Most of these fish begin as larvae, but during their life, they will try to consume a special type of anemone. Their body will not digest this anemone, but rather, it will let the anemone fuse into its body. This causes a peculiar symbiotic relationship, where the anemone stings any would-be threats, and the cyclops fish provides food and mobile shelter. These two organisms, once fully fused, are now essentially one organism (the Hair string Cyclops Fish) and trying to remove one at that point will result in the guaranteed death of the other, especially considering that, in mature specimens, the anemone becomes fused to the fish's digestive system. Its eyeball is 51% of its total body mass, and the anemone 20%. The bioluminescent bulb is either used for mating, or is a vestigial body structure, as it isn't a predator (in the traditional sense. The anemone could potentially kill and digest other animals, making this creature somewhat of an omnivore). 5. Spore Algae: a type of algae that more closely resembles kelp, but it really isn't. It is similar to algae on Earth, but it will bloom a weird cotton-candy-like mass out of its rubbery body at some point. This mass is actually a massive collection of algae seeds, and the matter that connects the mass will be dissolved over time by the water itself. It uses holdfasts and often is found attached to rough terrain, like the surface of large rocks, that no other plant would grow on. 6. Sea Dragon: a large herbivore found in the deeper "seagrass field." It likes to consume sea grass, and it gains the required protein from eating algaes like spore algae. While it is a gentle giant, provoking it by trying to attack it will result in your getting chomped into pieces due to the fact that its jaw is highly evolved to consume tough plant matter, and it won't hesitate to use that strength for a more violent reason if it feels in danger. Otherwise, it is safe as long as you keep your distance. It will form "herds" of up to 20 individuals, with the oldest member being the leader. They often rotate from pasture to pasture across time, Whilst rare (because they often respect each other's borders) if another sea dragon family gets particularly violent and tries to expand into territory that doesn't belong to it, a "war" between the sea dragons will begin. The defending side usually always wins.
I made the music and art. The music sounds lazy because it was created 3 months ago and I never really used it until now
