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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Salmon pink (media.kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (19 children)

yfw that color actually comes from crustaceans they eat: 🤯

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Carotenoids are produced by algae, plants and certain fungi.

Feeding fish higher-level animals in the food web (like crustaceans or fish that predate on crustaceans) concentrates the carotenoids and brings out more and more color in the fish, specifically red.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And mercury right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mercury is more highly concentrated in higher-level organisms in a similar fashion, yes.

But mercury itself has nothing to do with coloring.

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