The drop fish is a fish belonging to the fish of big heads. This species was adopted as a pet by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.
We can find this fish in the deep waters off the coasts of the mainland of Tasmania and Australia, they also inhabit the waters of New Zealand.
The fish blues lives in depths of 900 to 1200 meters, in which the pressure is tens of times much higher than the level of the surface. The flesh of these fish needs to float, and therefore it is mostly a gelatinous mass with a lower density than water, this allows it to float on the bottom without losing energy by swimming.
It is recognized as the "ugliest animal in the world", many claims that its appearance is disgusting and its gelatinous body is also. The drop fish is cream and has a length of 30 to 38cm.
They are not very active species, they do not hunt their prey, they only feed on what they find in their path
The feeding of the dropped fish is based on
- mollusks
- sea urchins
- crustaceans
The drop fish keeps its eggs until they hatch, this is a strange fact in its reproduction.This species is considered by the IUCN as "Vulnerable".
Often this fish is caught as bycatch in bottom trawls nets. Experts and scientists fear that the gopher will become an endangered species.
That is to say, friends of Steemit,if it is Real This strange fish, lives between the coasts of Australia and Tasmania, to depths of 900 and thousand 200 meters. Much of its body is made up of gelatinous mass due to the level of pressure it must support. His body has a slightly lower density than water, which allows him to swim on the bottom without spending energy.
It has rarely been photographed in its natural habitat due to the inaccessibility of the area.