...at what we are calling the "razorback event site" on
Northwest EIfuku we collected some rocks that had a whole bunch
of little tiny egg cases from a limpet A lot of them have
hatched, So I have a bunch of cultures of larve, from a little
limpet called Shinkailepas. I'm hoping that I can get them to
live until they become limpets until they settle in
metamorphosis. That is hard to do with hydrothermal vent organisms
To get them to live through they're whole larval life. Oh my
gosh, it's crawling on the surface tension. He's going like
this guy, he's wants to swim on the surface. look at that! I
don't know what it is about snails? They're trying to escape.
They do! gettin outta here. They are essentially snails. They are
not actually true limpets. They are false limpets. But these are
actually just snails, With kind of a modified shell and their
underside is more open Then other snails. Wow, I can see it's giles
sticking out, sorry. eww, don't look.