The frost fish

The frost fish is a fish that is around the size of a carp.  It’s part of the Canic Group which is related to the first vertebrates to come to land, meaning it has six fins.  It feeds of plankton and the norbis bulb.  They are quite common and they have a quite interesting life cycle.  They start off as an egg, after a few days they hatch into a finless tadpole like form.  This is a very unique trait among the Canic Group.  After a few weeks it starts developing fins and it has grown to the length of three centimetres.  At this stage only 50% of them make it out alive.  Others get eaten by predators or die of malnutrition.  After a few days the back fin starts developing and they grow exponentially and this is the time when they go to sleep for a few days, this development leads to a few months of growth and continuous development until they are almost fully developed.  They are smaller and their fins are a bit see through.  This is the time where winter comes.  Because of the frost their cell adapt, deactivating all biological processes and create a chemical called aspirin.  When winter ends the chemical restarts the biological processes and the frost fish is revived and quickly enters it’s adulthood and start ejecting sperm, or if it is a female, eggs.  The eggs are fertilised and this freezing and breeding process lasts around 80 years and they in dies.