Hippo Day 2025 is on Saturday, February 15, 2025: How many hours a day do hippos spend in the water?

Saturday, February 15, 2025 is Hippo Day 2025. Popular items for hippo card on Etsy Card "Have a Hippo Day" An

Wager you didn’t know that Hippo loosely means River Equine in ancient greek language. Hippo Day, then, remembers the 3rd biggest mammal on the planet. A good a while to waddle inside a dirt bath, get angry with a few vacationers, and yawn a great deal although opening the mouth area really-really broadly?

Hippos mainly spend daylight hours in water. They usually spend about 16 hours in water & around 5-6 hours grazing at night.

hippo behavioural adaptations?

Hippos are definitely adapted for life in the water and are found living in slow-moving rivers and lakes in Africa. With their eyes, ears, and nostrils on the top of the head, hippos can hear, see, and breathe while most of their body is underwater. Hippos also have a set of built-in goggles: a clear membrane covers their eyes for protection while still allowing them to see when underwater. Their nostrils close and they can hold their breath for five minutes or longer when submerged. Yet despite all these adaptations for life in the water, hippos can't swim! They can't even float! Their bodies are far too dense to float, so they move around by pushing off from the bottom of the river or simply walking along the riverbed in a slow-motion gallop, lightly touching the bottom with their toes like aquatic ballet dancers

Other adaptation includes:

• Hippos can store two days' worth of grass in their stomachs and can go up to three weeks without eating, if needed.

• If pressed, an adult hippo might be able to hold its breath underwater for up to 30 minutes.

Blue hippo tang question?

1. you should learn how to acclimate properly, and leave lights off the first day.

2. you should always know what to feed the fish, not just the lame info you get from a care sheet at petco/petsmart, these care sheets are often wrong.

3. most saltwater fish die in the first week due to shock and malnutrition from the transportation etc.

4. you should expect to use live brineshrimp with new fish (if you have access to it) to encourage them to eat.

5. use frozen brine and other frozen foods for most saltwater fish (Formula I and II, Angel formula, mysis shrimp and other foods)

6. tangs and angels benefit from Algae sheets, Nori(seaweed) sheets, and Romaine Lettuce/Spinach.

7. Reef Muchies makes an excellent food for saltwater fish

try to get it here--he'll mail it to you.

note: good nutrition, especially for tangs and angels is essential to avoid a disfiguring disease that's nutrition related called HLLE/HITH, (head and lateral line disease, or hole in the head disease)