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At first, I figured these were descended from the Bonyfee. Nope, but they sure like making colorful lumps and dots on a hard substrate.

I wonder if the explosion of tiny genus groups will have great top-down effects on "algae" populations. That is, what if bigger organisms go extinct specifically because tinier genus groups eat up most of the "algae" supply? The fact there are so many domains means it's difficult to make a fairly-plausible "disease genus" or "parasite genus" that regulates multiple genus groups. It's like something that infects both Archaea and seaweed.

This post has been edited by Coolsteph: Nov 27 2020, 09:05 AM

Well I think the solution would be instead of one"disease or parasite genera", one does multiple, one per each genera (or very closely related ones, like a pathogen that affects minifee, polyfee, and bonyfee)