Brine Diaminet

The brine diaminet split from its ancestor the cave diaminet and left the Barlowe Water Table and spread to the Ovi waterways. There it encountered a super salty brine which it had to adapt to. In the salt lake and salt marsh there were plenty of prey but in the salt river it was very spare. Thus it had to adapt to more than one method to get energy. When prey is is sparse it depends upon more on photosynthesis, which it has now regained from its distant ancestor the diamiboard. Like the diamiboard it floats on the water surface. However it still stays connected to it parents and siblings. When it catches prey in it's sticky red fungi-like roots it will first paralyse it with its numbing toxin and then dissolve its strong enzymes. Next it will distribute its nutrients among all the brine diaminet thus ensuring that all will stay fed no matter where they sit within the web. Each can have up to 4 connections and each web can grow to up to 30 individuals. Since they are hermaphroditic they can fertilize each other even when they are still connected. Thus creating genetic diversity even within a single colony. Due to the high salt content of the Ovi water ways their roots will eventually become encrusted by salt crystals. While they can dissolve some off all members are doomed to sink from its weight. Once this happens they are disconnected from the colony and sink to the bottom to die.