Hagfishes are deep-sea dwelling animals known for their abilities to produce enormous amounts of slime as a defense mechanism against gill-breathing predators. A predatory bite on the skin of a hagfish causes slime exudate to be released from the slime glands, which when mixed with water, forms huge volumes of slime within 100-400 ms. This slimy and fibrous hydrogel primarily consists of two components, mucous vesicles and skeins. Skeins are silk-like thread bundles that unravel when exposed to seawater. During unraveling, these threads interact with mucin-like strands from ruptured mucous vesicles and expands to form a mesh-like slime network. The mechanism by which the silk threads and mucous strands entrain water within the slime remains unclear. My research attempts to uncover the mechanism by which skeins unravel and vesicles rupture to form mucous strands and how both fibers interacts that enables enormous amounts of water to be entrained within the slime.