Great Churner

On the shallows of the bays, the area tends to be quite murky for a brackish sea. However it’s thanks to one large organisms, an ecosystem engineer is hard at work.

The Great Churner is large descendant of the Common Plecostumus, evolving to large sizes to fend from predators. With massive head spikes and thick scales, nothing can hurt them as an adult. However juveniles are preyed upon by dolphins and sharks, as their scales haven’t hardened hard yet. Which is why juveniles tend to migrate to shallows or rivers for safety.

Once grown enough they return back. Grazing on the various algae and aquatic flora, eating them up and disturbing nutrients around the water. These nutrients flow out of the bays and into the open oceans, where both phyto and zooplankton consume. These plankton support the entire pelagic ecosystem, and their nutrients are thanks to large organisms on