These are also adapted to live in the salt water but they do it differently. Black mangroves actually take in the salt with the water and excrete it onto the leaves. Salt crystals can be seen and tasted on the leaves. The mangrove forest looks pretty dead but some organisms still make their homes here. There are many termite nests for instance.
Termites eat wood and use their feces to build nests.
Small land crabs live in holes in the earth. The brackish pond was also a very interesting place to explore. There is no oxygen in this environment so anything that lives in the pond must adapt accordingly. Bloodworms are one type of organism that live in the pond. They have a substance similar to hemoglobin in their systems, which allows them to live in this anoxic environment.