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Reeflings by Laughing Dove (critique requested)

Reeflings (critique requested)

Laughing Dove

One of my little original species, kitten-sized little fish-amphibian things that like to eat molluscs and arthropods and anything that doesn't dart away too quickly. They live on reefs and particularly like picking over parts exposed by low tide, when they can get morsels they usually can't reach. This is my pair, based on Royal Gramma fish, but I'll happily take customs of these if folks are interested and maybe will put up a bunch of recoloured ones for people to adopt at some point.

They are amphibious, but mostly aquatic. They tend to like to use their legs to hunt things exposed by the tide. Their skin texture is like a cross between a frog and a fish, it's very slimy and soft with some fleshy, small scale-like areas (which tend to catch the light! Think small reef-fish type thing). Their shoulder fins are very movable and totally collapsable, as are all their fins, they have the same flexibility as fish! They smell like frogs, but saltier because they're not freshwater animals. Different colours are representative of different 'schools'. While they tend to feed alone or in pairs, they tend to prefer their own type for mating, which keeps quite a few different groups, each tending to specialize on their own reef or coastal niche, that can still interbreed between groups (mostly). Different schools have different levels of individual differentiation.

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    these are super spiffy and i enjoyed the little description for them, love seeing well-thought out original species (as much as i like straight up designs im a nerd for biology so i like seeing some info behind things too haha). fish are super neglected as inspiration imo and i like how you conveyed the iridescence and the volume of their bodies with your shading-- just wanted to say! c: