Fascinating. Thank-you. Ive never heard of fairy shrimp before. These fairy shrimp made me think trilobite from the cambrian period. Or some kind of horseshoe crab....thanks.
@@ChromatophoneNature Yes- absolutely. What happens is the females carry a clutch of eggs as they swim around, usually dropping as many as a few hundred in her short life span. They sink and collect in the detritus, on the leaves, in the mud. Ordinarily they require at least a full dry out cycle then rehaydration to hatch the next generation of shrimp. Not sure the conditions of the pool the past few seasons but until conditions are again correct, sometimes the eggs lie dormant for decades even. If you ever wish to try and get a colony off the ground by collecting up some material from the pool, give a holler should you need a hand.
@@ChromatophoneNature Yes, not only that but they will mate and lay eggs in captivity too. Then when you finish with the experiment, you can dry out the materials in your tank, hydrate those again and make further generations. Or, you can also return the dried detritus to the vernal pool and replace the eggs you initially "borrowed". It's a nice little cycle. As for tips, you're going to want to go when the pool dries out. Take a small hand shovel if you have one. You don't need to go deep at all. Just an inch or two of the dirt and dried mud from the bottom, dried sticks and leaves are good too. You should only need a scoop. Bring that home, dump it into a tank, jar, bowl and fill it up with spring or distilled water. Sit back and watch and within a week you should see life bopping around in your tank. Fairy shrimp like these hatch, grow and die fairly quickly. A little over a month for the whole cycle.
Red spotted newt efts are no longer ‘efts’ if they are already back in water. The efts are still sexually immature and are terrestrial(so they live on land). After being tadpoles the red efts mature enough to leave the water for a couple years, then usually return to the water source they came from to become sexually mature fully aquatic adults. Kinda cool lifecycle for a newt.
Great stuff.
Fascinating. Thank-you. Ive never heard of fairy shrimp before. These fairy shrimp made me think trilobite from the cambrian period. Or some kind of horseshoe crab....thanks.
You’re welcome 🙂
D Hardy They remind me of anomalocarus
Search Triops. They Really look like horseshoe crabs..
Gorgeous fairy shrimp. I wouldn't mind a single dried leaf from that vernal pool!
Why? Could it have shrimp eggs on it? I haven’t seen a single fairy shrimp in this pool so far this year or last year.
@@ChromatophoneNature Yes- absolutely. What happens is the females carry a clutch of eggs as they swim around, usually dropping as many as a few hundred in her short life span. They sink and collect in the detritus, on the leaves, in the mud. Ordinarily they require at least a full dry out cycle then rehaydration to hatch the next generation of shrimp. Not sure the conditions of the pool the past few seasons but until conditions are again correct, sometimes the eggs lie dormant for decades even. If you ever wish to try and get a colony off the ground by collecting up some material from the pool, give a holler should you need a hand.
You know what, I should do that because I could probably get some great video in a captive environment. Can you give me more tips?
@@ChromatophoneNature Yes, not only that but they will mate and lay eggs in captivity too. Then when you finish with the experiment, you can dry out the materials in your tank, hydrate those again and make further generations. Or, you can also return the dried detritus to the vernal pool and replace the eggs you initially "borrowed". It's a nice little cycle.
As for tips, you're going to want to go when the pool dries out. Take a small hand shovel if you have one. You don't need to go deep at all. Just an inch or two of the dirt and dried mud from the bottom, dried sticks and leaves are good too. You should only need a scoop. Bring that home, dump it into a tank, jar, bowl and fill it up with spring or distilled water. Sit back and watch and within a week you should see life bopping around in your tank. Fairy shrimp like these hatch, grow and die fairly quickly. A little over a month for the whole cycle.
@@davistalhone9482 Thank you so much! Awesome. I may go to the pool tonight and see what I find to film.
Red spotted newt efts are no longer ‘efts’ if they are already back in water. The efts are still sexually immature and are terrestrial(so they live on land). After being tadpoles the red efts mature enough to leave the water for a couple years, then usually return to the water source they came from to become sexually mature fully aquatic adults. Kinda cool lifecycle for a newt.
Thanks for the clarification.
Wonderful video! I too, had never heard of Fairy Shrimps. Such interesting pond life! Thank you!
If anyone knows what the little floating blue orbs seen intermittently might be please let me know!
I'd love to know this too... they look like jelly fish..... wild!
drblack66 water flea?
Chromatophone Productions It could be a new species of hydrozoa since I’ve never seen anything like this
The heads of Eubranchipus are soo cool.
Is there a chance of getting a sample of dirt from that habitat?
One day I hope to,
15:41 The unidentified spheres look like they could be jellyfish... If they exist up there. Maybe examine in a glass. 🤓
Great video for Winter! 😁
Love it..
Anyone know where I can buy eggs for this species of fairy shrimp?
EBay or Arizona Fairy Shrimp. They also sell Triops.
Oh. Their Winter Fairy shrimp are similar and large.
На Авито есть в продаже яйца стрептоцефала.