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 FACTORS AND THREATS

Abiotic Factor

Non-living things that influences and effect an ecosystem

Abiotic Factors

One of the five abiotic factors that affects the blobfish are:

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  • Water Pollution - Because they live in the waters, having too much waste being left out there will kill them. They don't move so it is troublesome for them.

  • Bad Location - Blobfishes living in a bad location would have harmful results. The reason could be possibly a location generally terrible or there isn't the right food for them.

  • Hydrostatic Pressure - The depth range is approximately 200 m to 11, 000 m. If that is the case, then the pressure would be from 20 to 1, 000 or above.  Fortunately, the blobfish is capable of resisting the pressure due to its big mass.

  • Temperature - The range is from -1°C to +4°C. In the deep sea, water never freezes. They are able to resist the deep cold down there.

  • Food - Just like other deep sea creatures, the blobfish is capable of going without food for months. Its metabolism is small, so it can live pretty longeven with little oxygen.

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Biotic Factors

One of the three biotic factors that affects the blobfish are:

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  • Lack of shellfish and mollusks - These are one of the important organisms for the blobfishes to survive. Because they can't move, they have to rely on them coming closer. This relationship can be commensalism since it technically doesn't harm the blobfish, whatsoever, but they still need them to survive.

  • Humans - We are parasites to the blobfish. We just love to make fun of them so hard it hurts so much. We even killed a lot of them as well since blobfishes can only survive in water.

  • Krills - Not only shellfish and mollusks are blobfishes major food, krills are just as important, but not the main target than the two. Even if blobfishes don't have any shellfishes or mollusks to nom nom on, krills are their best back-up.

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Threats

  • Extinction - Yes, they will soon be extinct. Or will they? Anyways, they are currently an endangered species, with about 500 blobfishes alive. Technically, it is a natural process just like other species that have been extinct.

  • They are being fragmented - When something is built, animals have to move to different locations. But for the blobfishes, they can't move at all, and that is definitely one of the reasons they die pretty quickly.

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But the worst threat of all...

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HUMANS!!!

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 Be very surprised, cause we are actually very threatening people. Hur! Hur! Huur!

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We picked on these poor living creatures as "ugly". How dare we even do that. Not to mention that we are the main reason blobfishes are being threatened. Usually, when fishermen pickes them up, they die quickly. The reason being is that they are acid-like. Also some no-so-smart fishermen eats them. That is no good.

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