☀️ the ocean sunfish · sunbathing on Solana 🐟

MOLA

Meet the mola mola, the ocean sunfish: a giant, round, goofy fish that swims up to the surface and flops over on its side to soak up the sun. The ocean's biggest sunbather.

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Meet the mola

A fish that's all head.

The mola looks like a giant swimming head. It has a tall fin on top, a tall fin below, a tiny mouth and no real tail, just a frilly rudder called a clavus.

Why "sunfish"?

Born to sunbathe.

Molas dive deep into cold water to hunt. Then they swim back up and lie flat on their side at the surface to warm up in the sun.

Favourite food

Jelly lover.

Molas eat lots of jellyfish. Jellies aren't very filling, so a big mola has to slurp a whole lot of them.

The spa treatment

Bird spa day.

Molas can carry lots of tiny parasites. While they sunbathe, seagulls hop on and little cleaner fish swim up to pick them off.

From tiny to giant

A very big glow-up.

A mola mom can release up to about 300 million eggs. The babies are tiny and spiky like little stars, and some grow up to weigh more than a car.

up to about 3 m tall, fin to fin

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Deep dive, warm up

Up to the sun.

Scroll to bring the mola up from the cold deep, where it hunts jellies, all the way to the sunny surface to warm up.

300metres deep

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Down in the deep, hunting jellies. Brrr.

Try it yourself

Be the sun.

Drag the sun across the sea. Any mola in the sunshine flops flat to sunbathe and slowly turns golden. Then the seagulls hop on for a snack.

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Mola facts

Big fish, big facts.

A heavyweight

The mola is one of the heaviest bony fish in the world. Big ones can weigh as much as a car.

Millions of eggs

One mola mom can release up to about 300 million eggs. That's more than almost any other animal with a backbone.

No real tail

Instead of a tail, a mola has a frilly rudder called a clavus. It swims by flapping its tall top and bottom fins.

Named for the sun

It's called a sunfish because it loves to bask at the surface. In Latin, mola means millstone, for its round shape.

Mini game · 30 seconds

Jelly snack.

Steer the mola to slurp up the jellyfish. Gold ones are worth 3. But watch out: plastic bags look like jellies too. Don't eat them!

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Friends of the sunbather

The sun club.

the star

Mola mola

The ocean sunfish. Giant, round, goofy and always up for a sunbath.

spa staff

Seagull

Hops onto sunbathing molas and pecks off the little parasites. Snack for the gull, spa day for the mola.

spa staff

Cleaner fish

Small fish that tidy up a mola's skin from below the surface.

lunch

Moon jelly

A see-through jellyfish with four rings. A favourite on the mola's menu.

tiny start

Baby mola

Smaller than a grain of rice when it hatches, and spiky like a little star.

still swimming up

You

Name your mola at the end of the page.

Big, round and in no hurry at all. Swim up, flop flat and soak up the sun. That's the whole plan. That's $MOLA.

The live sunbathing meter

More sun with every block.

Name your mola and let it flop flat in the sunshine. With every new Solana block a little more sunshine pours in and your mola gets a little more golden. At 100% that's a full sunbath, and the meter starts again.

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