Art:Muck-Eating Minnow

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Muck-Eating Minnow

Scientific Name: Pimephales Gilliganus

The Muck-Eating Minnow is a small fish, generally two inches in length, which normally lives on the bottom of the sea. Feeding on the soft gooey remains of larger creatures, the male minnow lives a sedentary life on the seabed, only moving to mate or to escape predators Sometimes, if a better source of food is sensed nearby, the male will swim over and oce again resume his sedentary life. The female minnow, on the other hand, lives an active and almost symbiotic existance with the Deformed Eel, sucking nutrients vital for egg-production from the Eel's purple ooze and providing the Eel with a constant, convenient snack.

The Muck-Eating Minnow can also found living between the toes of the Underwater Sea Sloth and amongst the silvery eggs of the Great White Clam.

Muck-Eating Minnows are highly sought after by apothecarists for their ability to clean out the thick viscous residues in pots and cauldrons. As the male minnow lives only on the seabed, the female minnow must be plucked from the skin of the Deformed Eel when it is drawn to the surface. On ocassion, female minnows can be found attached to lumber after an attack by the Eel. All attempts to breed the minnow in captivity have proven fruitless, primarily because nobody has ever captured a male minnow.

This creature originally created by Orsino^[1].