The Rare GIANT Lamington Spiny Crayfish!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Murky Sebs Wild Underwater Adventures Episode 7
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This has been our biggest and wildest adventure so far!
Having spent a weekend searching for a very large and very rare species of crayfish only found in this area we were exhausted. Will we be lucky enough to track down this crayfish?
We also find some other amazing species along the way and check out a replica of a plane that crashed on the mountain in the 1930s and the brave and amazing story of wilderness exploration that goes along with it by Bernard Oreilly.
We have to brave many hazardous paths deep into the wilderness to discover these incredible wild creatures of this mountain forest in South East Queensland.
So come get murky with us on this wild adventure!
#Underwater #NationalPark #GoproHero9 #Adventure #4k #Mountain
Music by TheEagleJunction
excellent footage and narration 👍
Thanks very much :)
Wonderful quality. Thanks for the videos.
bellydancingstoat thank you!
Why don’t fisheries breed and farm a heap of these to be released back into the national park
They certainly should be but the best thing to do would be to ensure the wild ones are safe and are reproducing. It's probably due to lack of people caring about these amazing creatures, I'm hoping enough people will see how special these creatures are and force the government to make more of an effort to look after them
@@murkyseb I hope you have some luck with it, try getting in touch with your local university and see if you can get some help from them with studying and preserving the breed If you are serious about trying to do something for them contact fisheries aswell to and see if you can get a permit to catch a breedable pair of them to be studied and farmed. If you’re ever able to get them into the aquaculture and aquarium trades you will make a fortune aswell
@@frankielove31I would be very interested and support anyone doing this. Seb you are correct that many locals on the Gold Coast don’t know they exist. Especially these days since the town is rapidly growing and we have lost much of our forested areas do to urban development.
I know there are ecologists concerned about these crayfish even though they seem to be breeding fine. You’d think if some kind of captive breeding program was possible they’d be into it but I’m unsure about that. It’s known that people have been poaching them for a while now for eating and aquariums. The fine if caught is a pathetic $522 so that isn’t a deterrent to anyone who knows how easy it can be done.
Well done fella, video very well put together, not to mention great content. Your voiceover is very professional done. Looking forward to seeing more of your work Buddy.
brucesbit thank you very much that means a lot :)
Agree!! Very well presented!
Thank you for sharing brother this absolutely stunning country and this amazingly mind blowing species of the freshwater cray , what a blessed experience with such great results !!! 🔥❤️🔥🔥😎👌🏼👍🏼
Thank you very much :) they are such amazing creatures, I was very lucky to have seen them
I’m here watching this fully in love with these Crays after I saw a red morph on the forest floor so I’m seeking more knowledge about about them and appreciate your work and passion for this species (and others) 🦞🙏
Thank you, I'm really glad to hear you are enjoying watching the Spiny crayfish! They are such unique creatures.
Where did you see a red one? That's very cool
How cold is the water in those parts of Australia?
This was right on the border between Qld and NSW on the Qld side and the water in this mountain range is cold all year round. It's significantly colder than the surrounding lowlands. I haven't recorded the temperature of the water but I'd say it's around 5 to 10c cooler than the rest of South east Qld which varies but in summer some of the lowland creeks average 27c. Today some of the lowland creeks are 21c.
Wow! Great footage! So good to see so many of the crayfish about these days!
I used to camp there frequently in the 80's and remember when the national parks people first started aknowleging them as a specific attraction. Before that only the locals (and QLD biologists) really knew of their existence and O'reilly's was 'that place you can hand feed the rosellas' lol.
Ithink, Iam¿? Thanks very much! That’s really cool to know thanks for sharing that information !
@@murkyseb looks like it was pretty dry when you were there... I think I have swum at some of those waterfalls along that creek, but the water was flowing much faster and higher!
Hope S.E. QLD gets a good season of rain this time around!
@@murkyseb It really did used to be , buy seed and get swarmed by rosellas! 🤣 Nice to see King parrots in the mix now and (looks like) more of a 'they land on you if they want, not because it's the only way to get seed from humans' type attitude/setup. (It used to be usual to have 5 or more rosellas on every person!)
Ithink, Iam¿? Wow that’s really cool. They certainly didnt mind landing on me ! haha
How do you know how old they are? The information that I can find on this species is that they only grow to about 10-13cm and can reach this size in a couple years. (from QLD museam) However you mention they can live over 10 years (up to 30?) at which point do they get larger? How were you able to estimate the one in this video was about 10years or the large female was fully grown, I assume you meant close to 30? what size/length was she about?
I happened to hike around there this year and saw one that i estimated to be about 25cm in length, and a fully blue/white one about 12cm long. What ages would you imagine them to be?
Im suprised they list that on the museum website as thats incorrect.
The lamington spiny crayfish live to be over 40 and are very slow growing, when theyre young theyre brownish in colour becoming bluer and whiter with age they get to around 30cm sometimes bigger or smaller. This large female is roughly 30cm long which would suggest shes quite old along with her blue and white pattern possibly around mid 30s. I got my information from various obscure publications online about spiny crays which were not easy to find and also from a crayfish researcher at a university who confirmed most of this information saying they grew about 1cm per year slowing down as they got older. Theres very little information on them which is why i made this video.
If theyre 25cm they could be between 20 -30ish depending on if theyre male or female. 12cm possibly around 10 to 15 years old but its very hard to say theres a lot that effects their growth and very little information i could find on them.
@@murkyseb thanks mate, you're a legend. I'll take your word on their growth vs age ratio as it makes sense.
I've read too many ill informed sources to count since first encountering them. So far I think your information is most accurate. I reckon you should make another more indepth documentary and mention the size. Or at least annotate your current one to show size as it seemed slightly ambiguous at the time of viewing
@@tristanf8 no worries :)
Thank you ill try that
@@murkyseb 멋진 영상을 올려줘서 고맙습니다.
Euastacus Sulcatus가 어미에게서 독립한 후 2년 정도가 지나면 성별에 관계없이 12cm이상 자라납니다. 10살이 되면 20cm까지 자라며 크기가 커질수록 탈피주기가 길어집니다.
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@@엣헴-k9m thank you very much for explaining that! Im glad you enjoyed the video.
How do you know that information about these crayfish?
Hi there, I see them cruising around the bush when it’s raining, along the trails, years ago I seen them up at Springbrook mountain, but lately I haven’t seen any there. I was just up at tooloona creek and haven’t seen any there either. I think it depends allot on the weather, they seem to come out in warmer weather when it’s raining
Thats true they do like to move about when its wet!
Thats awesome you've seen them in the wild! Arent they awesome creatures
@@murkyseb yeah it’s amazing when you come across them on land, just on the trail.
A lovely video thanks. I've been watching quite a few of yours lately after discovering you a couple of weeks ago. I think crustaceans are very undervalued for their beauty. I think people eat the endangered ones mostly out of ignorance but occasionally willful stupidity. I grew up feeding crimson rosellas and king parrots down on the NSW South coast on my holidays (I'm from Canberra), but it's banned there now, it was causing some serious population imbalances. But they were good memories nonetheless. I've had many a king on my head!
Thank you so much :) that’s really great to hear! Especially that you like crustaceans, I also think they are amazing. And what an awesome area to have holidays in, very lucky to have had a king parrot on your head!