Imagine a new planet is found that is one huge ocean. There is no life at all in this enormous empty ocean world.
How would you stock it? In what order? Would you build an ocean of fish? Cephalopods? Crustaceans? Mammas?
How would you do it? What would your ecosystem consist of?
Slime molds
Only Plankton, preferably the smallest ones, eventually we should see giant ones emerging
You do know plankton also means the microscopic larvae of giant fish, octopi and many other large-bodied marine organisms right?
Yes, but plankton doesn't mean all kinds of plankton, and the ones that turn into not so small things as adults obviously don't classify as the "smallest ones"
I wouldn't bother. With no useable land, it's worthless.
>hock a loogie into the lifeless ocean
>see what kind of monstrosities eventually evolve from it
Probably none, to be honest. That sample will dilute and thus all of the food/useful bits that the microorganisms within it could eat will dilute with it. The conditions of the ocean they're in are also likely to be deadly to things that survive in your mouth, due to salinity differences and such.
>How would you stock it?
with a lot of chicken leftovers, imagine a planet covered in chiken broth
plankton in first, including algae and all the other microscopic bullshit
then marine plants that live under the surface, macroalgae like kelp, and corals
then worms
next crustaceans and arthropods, minus barnacles, whale lice, and other parasites
echinoderms and non coral cnidarians in
then marine molluscs
all bony fish and elasmobranchs that only live in the ocean are up next
manatees and dugongs can come on in
all fully aquatic sea snakes are welcome
next I fuck it all up by introducing red mangroves to particularly shallow areas
if they somehow are able to settle down, sprout, thrive, and catch enough sand/soil to start building islands, I give em a few decades then add coconuts, black mangroves, white mangroves, then various other dune plants such as sea oats, beach apples, sea grapes, etc.
once islands start to really take off I can go back and add sea turtles, seabirds, and maybe both extant marine crocodiles
Cetaceans are bullshit, marine iguanas probably couldn't hack it vs. manatees and dugongs, and I also would like to see how terrestrial life develops without four footed animals running things; the sea snakes and birds will have to figure things out. Otters, pinnipeds, mangrove monitors, and polar bears are too straightforward. The crocs maybe get a chance because I'm hoping they go in the other direction and become fully marine, but if they start getting too comfy in terrestrial niches then they're out. I worry a bit about the sea turtles potentially returning to land, if they start fucking with weirdo bird snake world then I'll have to remove them too.
If you allow us access to space age tech, I'd like to genetically engineer a serpent that's longer than a blue whale. Put some real horrors onto that planet.
I like your idea of mangroves. However, I'd add in giant squids and some whales too.
>sharks and jellyfish
🙂
>ocean world
how deep ocean is?
is it salt or fresh water?
Nothing but ocean, and the salinity will depend on depth and be in shells.
>Nothing but ocean
how deep it is you moron
15 times the volume of all of the earth's oceans.
>he asks for depth
>give him a volume
holy fuck I love you
VERY DEEP
The smartest breed of octopus and their main food sources.
the ocean is the organism
A single massive colony of hamsters in a giant underwater dome.
Toxic waste.
We have to dump it somewhere and business will pay handsomly for me to take it off their hands.
best and most based answer
also, if its drinkable water you might wanna sell some of it to earth before dumping shit in it
My sperm.
move all sperm whales from earth into that new planet
If the water is anoxic you can't stock it with anything.
Also, chances are the salt content doesn't match earth's ocean anyway.
That’s why you add phytoplankton first dumb dumb
>one huge ocean
Put in a single goldfish and give it an unlimited amount of food. Keep this up until we find out how big a goldfish can get.
thats a carp
Goldfish ARE carp.
Sediment and water from the Great Salt Lake.
Mammals in artificial habitats which shouldn't be a problem because it's a space colony
I don't care about aquatic "life"
Only invertebrates. I wanna see what kind of weird fucked up bug fish take to the water column this time
jellyfish, plankton and worms. it would be really interesting to see what kind of life could evolve in an enviroment kinda similar to precambrian earth. like, would vertebrates evolve? would we get arthropods? would jellyfish dominate and just take over?
Be prepared to get fish anyway.
If we get these things to be the size of tuna ill still consider that a succesful fucked up bug fish acquisition
Many fishes, many fishes...
>venus girdle
i love it immediately
Dolphins. Lots of dolphins.
Fuck I love dolphins.
a betta fish
if you aren't keeping your betta fish in a tank with at least 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers of water you are neglecting it