You planning on changing these too, or keeping them as is?

I changed it to Zooplankton

Great! No issues here

Approved

Sure, if it makes sense.

Does this violate the Diet Transition rule? The minikruggs list their diets as (Herbivore, Rhizovore, Frugivore, Scavenger, Ovivore, Detritivore)

Done.

QUOTE (Nergali @ Apr 13 2020, 08:06 PM)

Glad these are getting some love, but as the newer rules state, the larvae's diet needs to be specified.

I don't see what the young eat that's different. Maybe zooplankton?

QUOTE (Nergali @ Apr 13 2020, 08:05 PM)

The diet should include what the larvae eat.

Done.

Changes implemented.

Is filter-feeding the correct term for the diet? should these be planktivores too?

QUOTE (WereCynognathus @ Apr 14 2020, 05:38 AM)

It wouldn't be able to use its coloration to hide in the shadows at night as proposéd by the creator of this Jvirus?

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Apr 14 2020, 04:42 AM)

"It will quickly dart away before the creature has the chance to attack them," Did you mean "they" (as in members of the species, collectively) or "it" (referring to a specific individual as representative of the whole species)? " Bloodfin Scylarian," The comma should not be there. "an unusual diet," The comma should be a colon. EDIT: Since this is Jvirus's submission, and I don't know if Jvirus will ever show up, should this be edited later in the compendium?

QUOTE (Nergali @ Apr 13 2020, 08:34 PM)

I'm fine with this, as the dark coloration would help it to blend in with the seafloor.

QUOTE (Nergali @ Apr 13 2020, 08:39 PM)

I suppose that this is plausible, though I am actually uncertain on how waterworms respirate.

QUOTE (Nergali @ Apr 13 2020, 08:32 PM)

I'm having a little trouble determining the relationship between this and its ancestor, given the near total change in diet and lifestyle.

I changed the diet. I put Planktivore, but couldn't figure out if it was zooplanktivore or phytoplanktivore.

We do need to figure out a way to address the whole "No Skeleton" issue.

Belumbias are a marine species, so cannot be in the diet.

I would like to see more description if possible.

This might be in violation of the Island Migration rule. I'll reach out to Hydro for clarification.

This violates the Type rule, as it's in a scrubland, grassland, woodland, and riparian.

These things would be fuzzy mounds of cancer.

I like it. We don't see too many examples on here of species that have unintentionally developed negative traits that can't be easily gotten rid of so must be coped with. Like those Icefish that lost their hemoglobin and had to evolve traits to compensate or humans developing genetic diseases like sickle cell that also help survival, sometime evolution just goes "eh, good enough".

I do think there should be a intermediate species before this happens. One idea I thought of is see if we could create a species that undergoes genome duplication like with paddlefish. This would, while not inherently causing death, would lead to drastically reduced genetic stability. This way, it wouldn’t necessarily be a one-in-a-billion event, but the result of thousands of instability occurrences, which limb, organ, and tissue duplicates being uncommon but not rare. Something like a 1-in-100 event where some duplication occurs, and due to a high birthrate there would be multiple individuals spawned among the population each year.

Don't worry about that too much, this was my first submission: