Tripod fish live in the deep sea of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. tripod fish were discovered in 1886 by Geode and Bean.

When tripod fish are first born, there are small fish with beautiful flowing fins that swim near the ocean surface. At this stage, tripod fish are in danger all the time because of their small size, mainly from big predators looking for an easy meal. Tripod fishes’ only defence is fanning out their fins and looking like a jelly fish so they wouldn’t be eaten.

Soon, if not already, isopods would start living on the tripod fish, eating and feasting off skin and blood. The isopods would live on the tripods back and tail, living off the tripod fish growing bigger over time.

As the tripod fish grows more their fins start to lengthen and through an extremely painful process. Once the process is over the fish can no longer swim and as the tripod fish descends into the deep darkness of the water, their eyes start to close up and as the time the tripod fish gets to the bottom of the ocean their eyes are closed up with huge bumps.

After this, the tripod lives at the bottom of the sea only getting a small food source of small plankton and organisms. Soon parasites would start infecting the Tripod fish, and living on the fish’s back. The parasites slowly grow and eat most of the tripod’s fish blood. Soon the parasite would grow enough that it would drag the tripod fish.

If the tripod fish finds a partner in time before they die, the parasite could change the gender of the tripod fish making a huge mess of fertilized and not fertilized eggs with the other partner. The tripod just used weeks of energy stored up to make eggs that probably wouldn’t fertilize.

The tripod starts slowly dying, even the parasites on the tripod fish’s back are dying since the tripod fish isn’t producing enough blood to keep the parasites alive. The tripod soon gives out, and it doesn’t die in a dramatic way, the fish just sadly gives up and dies.