(Last one for today, unless we get a massive influx of votes within the next two hours lol)
Evolutions: Tentacles for movement-2 Photosynthesis -5
( No luck on movement yet )
Seafloorum tentalum's evolutionary descendant, Seafloorum algae, is virtually the same as the preceding creature. However, the tentacles have grown to become around 15 centimeters long, and a vivid green color. They absorb sunlight, and much of it too, since they are in shallow waters.
Around the environment a new blob species is emerging, a predatory kind, called Suprafloorum tentaclaw. It is similar to our Algae, but it is mobile, propelling itself through the water very slowly, usually hovering above the layers of blobs. Instead of tentacles it has pseudopods. Inside of its main body are a number of hooks or claws, and when a pseudopod brushes against a suitable food item a hook jettisons, spearing the prey and then retracts into the body for digestion. Tentaclaws are about 30 centimeters long.
They will eat our Algae if they happen to touch one, but lacking senses, do not actively seek them out.
GENERATION 3:
(Seafloorum) algae
A clear jelly blob. They absorb food through the skin, and is dissolved in the inner body fluids. It is around 15 centimeters in height and 5 centimeters long and wide.
SOCIAL: Completely socially awkward detached.
SENSES: Completely senseless.
REPRODUCTION: Budding. The buds detach after reaching about 3 millimeters in dimensions and then float to a short distance away before growing into their own blob. About three buds grow at a time, and the time for each bud to grow to the point of detachment is about one day.
MOVEMENT: Completely immobile, though the tentacles tend to wave around and could potentially snag things floating by.
EATING: It absorbs cells floating through the water. It will also prey upon the corpses of dead blobs. Its tentacles can create sugars from light with photosynthesis.
PREDATION: Tentaclaws can consume the Algae, but will not actively seek them out, so the blobs are somewhat safe.
SYMBIOSIS: No symbiotic relationships developed.
COMPETITION: Competition is lessened since cannabalism took hold, but still is strong since there are so many blobs. Also, to collect sunlight, the blobs can sometimes be overshadowed by the fronds resting on the reef.
INTELLIGENCE: No form of intelligence. At all.
ENVIRONMENT: A shallow sub-tropical sea. Layers upon layers of seafloor blobs have built massive networks of flexible reefs, but these reefs are rapidly shrinking. The fronds living on the reefs are decreased in number but still plentiful. 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, but now have to compete with the blobs which consume their dead relatives. Many greens surround the area between the blobs tentacles and the fronds which rest on the reefs.
Current environment: Shallow sub-tropical sea.
Nearby environments: Beach, deeper sub-tropical sea, river delta
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