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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Four Blackbar Soldierfish Under a Giant Sea FanNEWER POST:Giant Barrel Sponge and DiverMay 18, 09 Comments Off
 touch-me-not-sponge-worms Good evening readers of the Curacao blog, how was your day today? Remember a few days ago when I sent you the picture of the new fish we found, the little spotlight goby? Well I mentioned that the little white marks on the sponge were all tiny worms and since then have received countless e-mails about the worms. So I went out today and took a close-up of these worms just to prove that I am not crazy and not making this stuff up. One person asked how can these sponges survive with all those worms? Good question. There are a number of animals that live in association with this toxic sponge. The list includes, Touch-Me-Not Fanworms, Sponge Brittle Stars, Florida Tubeworm Snails, the Yellow Goby and the Shortstripe Goby, all need this sponge to survive. The worms you see here are actually tiny polychaete Sponge Worms and feed by inserting their proboscis into individual cells never harming the sponge itself. This was a super hard picture to take today! The worms are down along the inside walls and the sponge it’s self is very toxic! I am sure I took 50 pictures and only had a few come out but was bound and determined to get something. So divers the next time you swim over a Touch-Me-Not sponge stop and really look, all those white specks you see on the inside are all worms, it’s just so cool!
Here’s something fun and different for you all this evening, have you ever tried to say the word “Toy Boat” 10 times real fast?? It’s close to impossible! Well we were playing this at work the other day and the locals I work with said “oh yeah, we have one of those here too” try saying “Baka Brabu Rabu Largu” 10 times real fast! It means Angry Cow, Long Tail! The locals here enjoy this tongue twister as much as we love ours and there’s even one I learned in Dutch, it goes “de kat krabt de kruller van de trap”. Say What? This one is translated as “the cat scratches off the curls on the stairs”. The way I understood this was that if you have stairs with carpeting and own a cat, the cat will scratch or claw at the carpet creating little curls of carpeting with it’s claws, I love it!
That’s it, more tomorrow. Barry
05-18-2009
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