Salps Together

Salps are sometimes alone. See a picture of a "solitary" salp here: www.divediscover.whoi.edu/expedition10/hottopics/salps-en1.html. (There is also a nice but kind of scarey movie of salps at night in the Video section of that site.) Salps also like to hang out in a group, like in a salp chain like the one in this little movie. The salps are the pink-and-clear guys, the other guy is the solid, dark guy in fins. He is "dave." Salps do not like to give their names, usually, although you can call me Jackie.

You can watch the salps and dave in the movie at http://www.baue.org/videos/dave_salp.html.

Sometimes, we like to have a salp cloud. Clouds are good. Don't know why, don't have a brain. At least, not always, only sometimes. That's why it's so hard to fit the url on the post page. But here is a picture of a salp cloud, anyway. http://www.underwater-photos.com/pw042.html

And then there is the time we like to have guests come and stay for awhile, although this can give you a headache. Look for the photo of a salp with an anthropod (a Phronema) living in it on this nice website with photos of critters like me. I don't know why they have to stay so long, but it's a salp's life anyway. Thanks for the family portrait, Russ. http://www.coml.org/medres/highlights2006/images_hopcroft.htm