Hindenblob (
Figurus natatius)
A green-colored blob of jelly. Named after their airship-like form of movement, by the use of ammonia in their gas sacks, which are smaller than those of their ancestors. However, they're incredibly agile and can stretch and collapse themselves to great extents.
Reproduction: It lets out male cells in the current, and growths grow on other blobs when they land. These growths fall off and become another blob.
Movement: It creates ammonia from the nearby water and stores it in special sacks that allow it to ascend and descend and be picked up by the current. It can move on its own, and is very proficient at doing so. The young don't have their ammonia sacks fully developed and thus remain stationary in reefs, along with certain mature hindenblobs. Should the need arise, it can also rapidly release the stored ammonia to gain a speed boost to escape, but its negligible reaction time makes this ability rarely successful.
Eating: It absorbs cells and small blobs that are digested inside their guts. The waste is then released into the water the same way it went in.
Predation: It feeds on small blobs and cells, but otherwise is a peaceful species.
Competition: The chargeblobs continue to be the primary competitor of hindenblobs, and their new form - shockblobs is much more dangerous than its ancestor. It still uses the same form of propulsion to quickly catch its prey, but it also releases multiple mineral spines by the use of gases and then proceeds to absorb the victims.
Another notable species that competes with the hindenblob is the burstblob -it propels a fetus through a long proboscis into the flesh of a prey that later develops and grows inside the body of the host and ruptures its body when fully mature.
Environment: A shallow sub-tropical sea. Layers upon layers of seafloor blobs have built massive networks of reefs. Fronds grow above the rest, filtering food from the open water. They grow from their stalks so that they don't get covered by the bottom layer. Their underground sections form a complex root system that feeds off of the corpses of blobs that were buried.
(Hindenblobs shown in purple, shockblobs shown in orange. Burstblobs shown in turquoise. Other species shown in red.)
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