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Bacteria break down the trapped sediment and other organic material, helping create tons and tons of sticky mud, a whole new home for wild life.
細菌分解掉這些沉積物和其他有機物質，最后一起變成成噸的淤泥，淤泥成就了又一個全新的棲息地。
In a perfect world mud should be thick and glutinous and as rich as dark chocolate, and it should also stink to high heaven, but this is extremely important stuff to the great barrier reef, one teaspoon full of this mud contains 10 million bacteria.
在正常情況下，這些淤泥極為粘稠，粘稠得就像黑巧克力一樣，味道也臭得熏天。正是這些淤泥對大堡礁起著極其重要的作用。每茶勺的淤泥里都含有千萬計的細菌。
All those bacteria are potential food, and although they are many species that eat mud directly, those that do operating in large numbers, legions of creatures perform the unglamorous but crucial task of breaking down the globe, mud welks and fiddler crabs both eat the mud, and their waste is the vital product and spoons an entire food chain.
而這些細菌正是一種潛在的食物。雖然地球上以泥為食的生物不是很多，而那些以泥為食的都以龐大的群體數量現身。這個生物軍團的任務單調乏味，但卻是分解粘土的關鍵步驟。泥螺和招潮蟹都是吃泥高手，它們的排泄物是形成整個食品鏈的重要產品。
Once it's in the water, clouds of shrimp devour it, the nutrients that start in the mud are now swimming around in small easy to catch parcels.
漲潮后，水中的糞便就成為蝦群的食物。原本淤泥中的養分，現在變成四處游動的小且好抓的蝦形養料包。
