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Sometimes I am sitting around minding my own business, and a QUESTION pops into my brain. I don't know why. Maybe my brain exists in a multi-dimensional space and in some universe it appears as a box labeled "stick inane things here", but not in English, of course. That would be most improbable.

Anyway, I am now stuck pondering the life cycle of deep sea critters. I popped onto IRC with these questions, but didn't get many answers.

If anyone knows answers, or knows someone who might know answers, please leave a comment. Otherwise I'll be up all night.

< ^-^guppie___> Folks around? I have a question.
< ^-^guppie___> You know those fish that live deep in the sea? Those ones with scary eyes and teeth. The ones that glow sometimes?
< squirreli> some are eels?
< shad0wcat> there are several like that
< ^-^guppie___> They eat littler fish, right?
< ^-^guppie___> What do the littler fish eat?
< squirreli> barnacles and smaller fish and seaweed and the babies of other fishes
< squirreli> and planktony
< katarin> evern littler fish and proably microscope stuff
< squirreli> and brine shrimp
< ^-^guppie___> squirreli: no seaweed or plankton down there. No light.
< squirreli> maybe other fish with scary teeth and eyes
< squirreli> filter through the silt and debris on the bottom for smaller stuff
< ^-^guppie___> Does the cycle depend on fishthings that swim up to the light, eat green stuff, and then swim into the dark to get eaten by scary glowy fish?
< katarin> dunno
< ^-^guppie___> Seems kinda dumb. Why would the food fish go into the dark to get eaten up?
< ^-^guppie___> squirreli: I suppose I could see it working if the bottom of the food chain is critters that eat decaying things that fall from the surface region.
< shad0wcat> dont they call those Lawyers?
* ^-^guppie___ 's brain turned on again. Sorry folks.
< ^-^guppie___> If I didn't get this sorted out, I'd never get to sleep tonight.
< squirreli> bottom-feeders
< squirreli> like turbots
< squirreli> or... yes... lawyers.
< ^-^guppie___> squirreli: ah, but you can't have bottom feeders in some areas. Too much pressure. Does that imply that there are no scary glowy fishes above the trenches?
* ^-^guppie___ needs to ask TeeCee this stuff.
< squirreli> dunno
< squirreli> some of those bottom feeders are made for high pressure
< Snickle> crabs can take pretty high pressure
< ^-^guppie___> squirreli: not bottom-of-the-trench pressures though.
< squirreli> I know that they have even found microscopic life in the water around small vents and volcanos in the ocean floor
< squirreli> dunno...
< ^-^guppie___> Maybe I'll post this conversation in LJ and see what folks have to say.