Cutie Mark Crusaders Freshwater Ecologists Yay!

So this happened.
Kinda playing around with ripples and hatching and things that aren't just outlines of ponies. It succeeds as practice at least. A learning experience, shall we say. I actually started this back in the beginning of summer to play with my new felt-tipped pens, but didn't get very far before shelving it for a season or so. Got tired of it sitting around gathering literal dust, so I started finishing it off in between bouts of Sudoku and interwebbing.
That poorly rendered fish represents a real animal, btw. Fathead minnows, also known as Rosy Red when they're orange mutants, are native to North America and are widely sold as bait or feeder fish. They're also very common model organisms in laboratory testing and toxicology studies. Unlike most minnows that just scatter their eggs and swim off, male fatheads guard their eggs on the underside of a log, rock, or other kind of shelter. They fan the eggs to oxygenate them, and rub a fungicidal substance from their skin onto the eggs. Parent care pretty much ends once they hatch, when the fry are left to fend for themselves (if they can avoid being eaten).

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