Glowsnapper - Gen 144

[MNIDJM]

Glowsnapper (Chambersaurus subdarwinus)

Creator: MNIDJM
Ancestor: Tablesnapper
Habitat: Darwin Water Table, Badger Limestone Caverns, Ferret Limestone Caverns, Neo Limestone Caverns, Rabid Sandstone Caverns
Size: 25 cm Long
Diet: Omnivore (Ghost Crystal, Cave Korystal, Cave Prickworm, Ylbershpelle Bubblehorn, Obscurpede, White Obscurpede)
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Frog-like Eggs Laid in Water

 The glowsnapper replaced their ancestors. After being cut off from sunlight for millions of years it lost its pigment, appearing pinkish in color due to its red blood. They have developed a hypersensitive sense of touch and smell to navigate the caverns. Their ancestors eyes have lost their function, but when the flashstrings arrived, their eyes regained some function. They are unable to detect shapes and colors, but can detect the bioluminescent glow of the flashstrings. This allows them to find one another during mating seasons.

 The males will eat the flashstrings when they are ready to mate, cultivating them in skin patches to attract female glowsnappers. The flashstrings survive on their blood, and are then expelled through their waste, spreading them to areas they could not go on their own. The males soon die from blood poisoning, and are fed on by the flashstrings. The females dig a small hole underneath ghost crystal or cave korystal and lay their eggs. The female then abandons the young. The young feed on obscurpedes and scavenge off of any scraps until adulthood.

[Building Blocks]

The side eye doesn't match and seems looted.
There is nothing for ether side to gain.
It is impossible to not see in shade.

[MNIDJM]

Original:
Snappers: ability to find mates. Strings: Cultivation and distribution
Shape, not shade.

[Building Blocks]

Besides the fact that a mating season here is impossible for severaldozenreasons, it is filled with fatal flaws.

If it can't see shape it can't find anything.
The tunnels it wanders makes light useless practically to the range of touch.
It couldn't really navigate said tunnels.
Nothing says "I am good health" like an often lethal infection from one's own incompetents.
How do they dig though stone?
Those normally unreachable spots are dry and/or bodyless.
That much light from so little blood waste is in contrast to the first law of thermodynamics.

[Hydromancerx]

Also if your glowing then you would always have poor night vision since you would be always close to the light. And since the flowing is now that bright it would be hard to see where you were going. This would be easy prey too since its glowing.

Not to mention the flashstrings if put on the body like that soon would die and use up their flash quickly. In short it would only get one shot before the cell died using up all that ATP to flash.

[MNIDJM]

They don't glow to see where they are going, males glow to attract females, then die due to the strain on them. The more they glow, they tougher they are due to tolerating the stress of all the flashstrings.

[Building Blocks]

An incomeless cave can not afford suicide.

[MNIDJM]

They have income from the lakes.

Suicide does not matter if they survive long enough to pass on their genes.

[Hydromancerx]

Questions ...
- What keeps them from infecting the females when mating.
- Also how do other males acquire it? I doubt they are handing around dead things.
- How do they swim?
- How do they breathe in the water table?
- Why is it all mover the body in patches? If it was in the blood wouldn't it make the veins glow? Not some random patches.

[MNIDJM]

- Has to be ingested
- By eating them from the rock or dead things
- I guess in a cross between a pterosaurs and a turtles, like it's ancestors.
- By going to the caves. I'll add that since I seem to have forgotten.
- The patches were developed sort of like incubators.

[Hydromancerx]

- By eating them from the rock or dead things

They eat rocks and dead things? I thought they were ...

Diet: Omnivore (Ghost Crystal, Cave Korystal, Cave Prickworm, Ylbershpelle Bubblehorn, Obscurpede, White Obscurpede)

I suggest you have it infect one of its foods too so it can be ingested.

- The patches were developed sort of like incubators.

Wait how do you mean? Like how would it become random patches in the body? Don't it be glowing in the areas of the body that have the most blood?

[MNIDJM]

They do.

Think of them like acne. You can't control where they appear.

[Building Blocks]

That's a terrible comparison.

[Hydromancerx]

Wait so why did one pair of eyes get huge while the other 2 pairs went away?

[MNIDJM]

It had originally lost all sight, but regained some after the flashstrings arrived.