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" killpedes" You meant "krillpedes"....probably.
This exists in quite a lot more habitats than its ancestor, including salt swamps. Is that due to being extremely adaptable from its enormous genome size?

Type 1: Temperate Coast
Type 2: Tropical Coast
Type 3: Ocean (Sunlight Zone)

Flavors:
Sunlight Zone flavors: Ocean (Sunlight Zone), Shallows, Coasts
Salt flavors: Salt Marsh
This has 3 types, and 4 flavors, though it could be argued the "flavors" rules was meant for kinds of flavors and not individual ones.

Is this a wildcard?

That is only 3 flavors (open ocean (sunlight zone), shallows, and wetlands). Salt is not a flavor, and coasts and shallows (and bay, though there are none this week) are the same flavor.

Now I want to make a predatory krillpede called a killpede.

When I made that post, and when I checked it now, "Salt" was listed as a habitat flavor under the Sagan 4 Project Rules in the Alpha timeline, as shown in the screenshot above. Wetlands was listed separately from Salt, the latter of which included Salt Swamps.

That sunlight zone thing is not how the biome system has been treated at all since the snowball event over a decade ago. The rules are filled with comically outdated things like that, they're really disorganized. (I had to go through them all for Beta)

"And fuse with those of other colonial bubblgeas"

I would specify they are fusing with other free floating buds, when I first read this I thought it was implying they fused with a bud still attached.

I'm also curious about this fusion process, especially prior to meiosis.

Are these buds fusing single cell, fusing multiple cells,?

I'm also wondering if these would heat the water directly around them enough to make it inhospitably warm to other organisms.

Disgustedorite, do you intend to add any more detail to these in response to Colddigger's feedback?

The laws of physics don't work like that. The water might be slightly warmer, but it wouldn't boil.

QUOTE (colddigger @ Dec 10 2021, 04:10 PM)

I'm also wondering if these would heat the water directly around them enough to make it inhospitably warm to other organisms.

As Disgustedorite said, it wouldn't boil. It could make the water warm enough in summer to be less than ideal for algae-like organisms with narrow temperature tolerances, but the effect would probably, at least most of the time, not be significant enough to notably change the ecology. If one species in a genus group doesn't do so well, one can assume a nigh-identical species can replace its function.

It's not about boiling.
I've watched fish die off in bays during heat waves over the summer just because the water they were in just got too hot and there was nowhere to go.
None of that was boiling.

Looking it up it sounds like it could be an oxygen thing.

I'm curious if this large swath of black objects warming air enough to cause significant thermal updrafts would also be warming the water they are surrounded by to a point of replicating a heat wave.
So, higher temperature, lower oxygen.

This post has been edited by colddigger: Jan 22 2022, 12:50 PM

That's a good point about the heat waves. Whether these substantially affect water temperatures could depend on the deepness of the water, among other things, and whether these substantially affect organisms would depend on tolerance to heat waves and low-oxygen conditions. I don't think these alone would be responsible for massive ecological changes: their heat-emitting properties are probably different from, say, black asphalt.

Black shade balls could be useful for back-of-the-envelope calculations of how they affect the environment.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: Y
Art clear?: Y
Gen number?: Y
All limbs shown?: Y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: Y
Realistic additions?: Y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: Y
Creator?: Y

Ancestor:
Listed?: Y
What changes?:

• External?:
• Internal?: Sexual reproduction
• Behavioral/Mental?: Colonial living

Are Changes Realistic?: Y
New Genus Needed?: Y (done)

Habitat:
Type?: 1/2
Flavor?: 2/3
Connected?: Y
Wildcard?: N

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Within range?: Y
Exception?: N/A

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: Y
Other?: N/A

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Transition Rule?: NA
Reasonable changes (if any)?: NA

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: Y
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: N
Does It Fit Habitat?: Y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: N/A
Other?: N/A

Description:
Length?: Good
Capitalized correctly?: Y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: Split
Other?: Replaces other bubblegea species

Opinion: Approved