I grew up raising these! I always called them triops! I won a couple science fairs with them too!! Did an experiment where I fed different groups of triops different colors of food and it changed the population's colors! Green food to one group made them lighter and brown food to another group made for darker triops!
I've never heard of these before. I love how they look. Much like horseshoe crabs and giant isopods, these guys fascinate me immediately, and remind me creatures of the Cambrian period. Thanks for bringing these to my attention!
if you wanna get real crazy, they are very cheap and easy to keep as pets. So if you ever want some firsthand experience with them, their eggs can dehydrate and store for years as well as not needing much for their aquariums.
Yay, Dinosaur Srimp/Tadpole shrimp fit into the multiple animal naming convention! Another animal of the week to add to that list, two in a row - we're back on a streak!
@@PersonOfRandomnesss you are correct , I always thought they were the creatures , sexual dimorphism or just age I figured was the difference . when I was a kid we would Catch both of these creatures in vernal pools in the Texas panhandle . there are big black with yellow spots salamanders in those same pools that like to eat them.
As a kid I was fascinated with fish keeping, however my mom would never ever allow me to have my own small aquarium. After begging and begging, she met me half way at "sea-monkeys" as she had them years ago and knew the process and knew how small they were. So i got these "Triops" instead and didn't tell her... You can have fun imagining my growing joy and her growing horror as my little buddies grew into these absolute monsters! They were really ugly, like something from Alien but i loved them and got a few generations out of them by studying their life cycle. Should have just let me get the cute goldfish lol
To be fair, goldfish require too big of an aquarium, while some crustaceans are much more suitable to small aquariums Idk what size of aquarium you had, but since your mom didn't want them and she thought you bought sea monkeys, my guess it was at most 10 gallons / 40 liters?
@@arthurheine5631 No tank at the time, I fully knew the tank size required and I was at least honest with her about that lol, probably why she said no! Got a small 5 gal for the old Triops! These days i have a few tanks including a couple of fancy goldfish in a 30 gal but Triops were a great learning experience after all and glad I got to have them :)
@@completetechheads yeah, a 5 gal is perfect for them! Congrats, you're a good fish/crustacean keeper! I only keep nano fish because I still don't have the space I desire for my fish tanks, so it's 10 gals all around the house 🤣 My favorite are fancy guppies and ember tetras, with some 7.5g cubes for my bettas
@@arthurheine5631 That sounds perfect as a small setup! I think you can keep fancier goldfish in slightly smaller tanks IF you do daily clean water changes and parameter checks, but then they WILL actually grow instead of being stunted and need an "upgrade" in terms of space, it's aaall about that water quality! My 2 fancies started in a 15 gal for the first year before they got too big! They were very happy with weekly vegetables and all that other good stuff. Ok now i have the urge to keep Triops again haha would recommend! They can get huuuge but only live for just over a month or so. Funny little creatures though! And from above, very cute :P
I currently have 6 triops longicaudatus in my aquarium. They're lovely critters, and quite acrobatic too. They like zooming around (sometimes upside down) and let themselves sink too the bottom while snacking on a piece of carrot. They lay eggs a lot and grow really fast. Their larvae grow from 1mm to over 1.5 cm in just two weeks. So yeah, they make for a fun conversation piece whenever I have friends over.
When I was a kid in the 1970's we went into the desert near El Paso, Texas dove hunting. There had been heavy rains and the temporary ponds were teeming with these strange creatures. We collected some and took them to the university where a biologist identified them as "tadpole shrimp". Fascinating creatures, and I was intrigued that they had been in the area for millions of years from the time there was a prehistoric sea. Sadly, the area where I found them was developed and I never saw them in the wild again. Good to know they're not endangered.
I remember I had one of these and went on holiday for a week, so I poured a ton of food into his tank. When I returned home, the madlad was still alive, and went on to live for another four weeks
Triops are the freaking best!!! I always had a little tank for them growing up! I would dry it out for extended amounts of time and set it in my window sill. Then a few months later I would rehydrate them and the eggs would hatch into a new generation! its partly what made me go into the field of biology!!
Gosh, they look like a transitional evolutionary phase for early fishes like Osteostracan and heterostracan. I never them sea-monkeys that were sold in comic books!!! Wonderful program BGT!
If you haven't already, could you cover Schizomida? They're small arachnids that aren't very studied at the moment, which makes them quite fascinating! I didn't even know about them until recently, and would be curious to see what you'd have to say about them.
I found them in temporary pools all over the Kaw River Valley decades ago. Some refereed to them as tadpole shrimp as they were about the color, size and shape of half grown bullfrog tadpoles. they spent much more time swimming upside down, eyes down, than eyes up, skimming the suface of the water for food. I reconded they avoided a lot of predation this way as the sediment of those temporary ponds had a lot of temporary predators. I haven't seen any for a long time.
As a kid i saw these guys in a pond in the middle of nowhere at a farm land of a friends of my dads, no one believed me that they were there and i had never know what they were until now
....oh heck nah bruh, I wish it was some kinda way that they would somehow stumble across them out there where you told them they were, and they think back, saying, "Remember when whatchu callem tried to tell us about these things and we didn't believe him?".... That would be awesome af...👍
I hatch brine shrimp nearly everyday to feed my fish. Used to see triops a lot when I lived in El Paso. Ok, so, maybe not a lot, but once a year they had a monsoon season and these would fill the ponds that would form out in the desert.
these guys hatch in seasonal ponds in the Texas panhandle , it'll be dry for months then it'll rain 10 inches in a day or two and soon as the sun comes out these guys pop up !
Finally, a comprehensive, biologically-interested video on Triops species! I tried to do a study on these friends awhile back, but comprehensive information on them was scarce and typically vague at best. The fact that they're so often children's starter pets has really biased the sources on them.
Triops is a genus but there is also closely related genus called Lepidurus. It made an appearance at 2:08. Most Lepidurus are endangered and much rarer than their Triops relatives.
Had some of these guys when i was little... ran out of food for them and i couldnt get any addult to run to the store and buy more food for them so they just ate eachother... this was the first time i realised that nobody cares what i need or want unless it keeps up an illusion of care. I starred into that tank so long after the last one starved to death- the only thing going through my head is how this horrible end could have been prevented if somebody cared enough to listen and take action... I had other pets after this that suffered similar fates. A bearded dragon who i couldnt get a new UVb bulb or heat lamp for and who i couldnt get any bugs for as treats. She only lived as long as she did because i could feed her salads and let her hang out in the sun outside sometimes. After that i didnt want pets anymore... i hated watching them die from neglect while i was powerless to provide basic care.
Don't forget that these are ancient animals. One species exists since the triassic, meaning it is the oldest living species of the planet weve found (so far) 😎
Sorry, but a taxon that has existed in a similar LOOKING form for that long HAS evolved. Just not in visibly obvious ways. This is why biologists hate that "living fossil" phrase. No such thing really.
I found some of them in a puddle in national park here in Austria and I was really confused as I only knew them from the small tanks I raised them in when I was little. Went by park management on my way home and told them about it, which led to me having to guide a park ranger to the puddle because they wanted to better study the population of these little fellas
I had some of these as a kid, bought them from a scholastic fundraiser at school. I loved them and they lasted quite a long time and grew a decent size. So much more gratifying than the "Sea Monkeys" brine shrimp that are also more commonly known about. I always thought they were so much better than sea monkeys because they grew to such a larger size than brine shrimp.
I read a newspaper article about the British species a few years ago. Apparently they are dependent for food on "cow pats" dropped in the water, but are threatened by cattle worming compounds.
When I was a kid I often found them in rice fields every spring, I was fascinated by these little creatures and didn't know the name of it, such good memories, thank you
I bought a kid’s science kit with some dehydrated eggs years ago, and two eggs hatched several days ahead of the others. They did indeed eat all of their siblings as they hatched, not even bothering with the food I gave them. But the two cannibal champions never mated, so the experiment ended after one generation lol. 1/10 Survival
I had these growing up. Unfortunately I never got them to fill age since the water I used had chlorine in it. Probably a good thing because they get big and I would not be able to keep them.
Oh, that's no problem, they'll eat each other until only the biggest is left, it will have enough space to grow to full size. Highlander shrimps, if you want. Also nice Season's Greason's pfp.
I hatched these Triops as a kid and was given a big fish tank to see what they did. They lasted a few months but then died out. With my parents help we still could not figure out how to keep conditions for them good long term in a single tank, even though it was big. Fun and educational! And pretty cheap too!
I hope these boyos continue to live till the Earth can no longer support life, they deserve it with this many adaptations to survive and a streak of a few hundreds of millions of years survival as a species
I remember having three of these as pets in kindergarten. Unfortunately they all died a while later which was a grief that it happened. The troops even got a burial in the woods wrapped in a napkin as a casket.
Interestingly, due to the odd way scientific names are assigned sometimes, not all "triops" are in the genus Triops. Triopsidae contains TWO families. Lepidurus & Triops. So it's _slightly_ more correct to call, say, Lepidurus apus: a "tadpole shrimp", than to call it a "triops".
They are both in the same Order (Notostraca) and are both in the same family (Triopsidae) 'three-eyes kin,' but are in different genus of (triops) 'three- eyes' and (Lepidurus) 'scale-ox' (I'm assuming ox meaning hardy?) So with both genus being in the family (Triopsidae,) triops is acceptable for both genus, in common name i call them shield shrimp.
I used to own a triop. His name was Tripe and I loved him so much. I cried so much when he sadly passed away when I got back home to find him no longer breathing even though he was fine in the morning and I gave him a good amount of food.
I got a triops kit once as a kid! Unfortunately only 2 of the eggs managed to hatch, and like you mentioned of the 2 hatchlings one ended up eating the other but that lone survivor was such a fun pet to have! I think he ended up living close to 60 days which seems to be average but it was so fun watching him doing flips and whatnot in the tiny little dish the kit came with (in hindsight, it was far too small for any amount of adult triops greater than 1 and lack of any possible form of filtration kinda made it useless long term. Kind of impressed in hindsight that such an inadequate habitat was included for them as a permanent residence in that kit! I'm sure my little guy had a happy lifetime despite all that, he certainly never seemed in any sort of distress!
They have that horse shoe crap look to them. No wonder they are called dinosaur shrimp as they would most likely be quite an ancient design in nature but still lives on because they have no need for change. Nature is amazing
Who would have thought it, a translucent horseshoe crab with 3 eyes and a whippy tail. Sounds like a great B movie monster, but even though you didn't say so, they appear to be quite small. It seems to be looking up at you with a quizzical look as if to say, what the heck are you, no tail, no shell, please don't eat me.
These fellas are super cool tho, they look so alien and I love them. It's like one of the creatures you find as fossils, and that's just absolutely cool
I would’ve liked a little bit more about their anatomy. Just an opinion that I think would help. As I haven’t heard of these before this, I would’ve liked to have known a little more about how they are built and how they use it.
Lived in Scotland for more than 40 years & never knew a thing about them.. Thanks for posting.. Subbed too, & looking forward to more great content, & also going through your back catalogue..👍
People used to get called 'daft apus', when being silly, when I was a child. You only just made me remember the word for the fairy shrimp. I think the 'daft' version, is derived from 'halfpennyworth', now I think of it!
Just a little correction, at 8 seconds in it should say aquatic, not marine animal, as Triops don't live in the ocean.
This things are epic! I had them when I was younger.
@@bonefetcherbrimley7740 I have them in multiple aquariums at different stages. 🤩
😅😊😊😢😢😢🎉🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
I grew up raising these! I always called them triops! I won a couple science fairs with them too!! Did an experiment where I fed different groups of triops different colors of food and it changed the population's colors! Green food to one group made them lighter and brown food to another group made for darker triops!
Cool
If you had had other colored food in brighter colors I wonder what other variations could have happened?
What did you feed them?
Mine ate each other and turned triops colored
@@CharlieApples Incredible
I've never heard of these before. I love how they look. Much like horseshoe crabs and giant isopods, these guys fascinate me immediately, and remind me creatures of the Cambrian period. Thanks for bringing these to my attention!
Yeah, horseshoe crab was the first thing that came to my mind as well! Fascinating little critters!
@@nikolademitri731 | I'd love to hold a (living) giant horseshoe crab, and then let it go.
I don't know how I've never heard about them before, considering how widespread they are.
They're like monster sea monkeys
@@JohnSmith-mk1rj | Same here.
if you wanna get real crazy, they are very cheap and easy to keep as pets. So if you ever want some firsthand experience with them, their eggs can dehydrate and store for years as well as not needing much for their aquariums.
Yay, Dinosaur Srimp/Tadpole shrimp fit into the multiple animal naming convention! Another animal of the week to add to that list, two in a row - we're back on a streak!
fairy shrimp
@@thehairywoodsman5644 Fairy Shrimp are different than this animal.
@@PersonOfRandomnesss you are correct , I always thought they were the creatures , sexual dimorphism or just age I figured was the difference .
when I was a kid we would Catch both of these creatures in vernal pools in the Texas panhandle .
there are big black with yellow spots salamanders in those same pools that like to eat them.
@@PersonOfRandomnesss mantis shrimp.
Imagine being so badass you got 2 different animals as your name
@@youtubestudiosucks978 Look through this series and you'll find its an on&off trend
As a kid I was fascinated with fish keeping, however my mom would never ever allow me to have my own small aquarium. After begging and begging, she met me half way at "sea-monkeys" as she had them years ago and knew the process and knew how small they were. So i got these "Triops" instead and didn't tell her... You can have fun imagining my growing joy and her growing horror as my little buddies grew into these absolute monsters! They were really ugly, like something from Alien but i loved them and got a few generations out of them by studying their life cycle. Should have just let me get the cute goldfish lol
You did well.
To be fair, goldfish require too big of an aquarium, while some crustaceans are much more suitable to small aquariums
Idk what size of aquarium you had, but since your mom didn't want them and she thought you bought sea monkeys, my guess it was at most 10 gallons / 40 liters?
@@arthurheine5631 No tank at the time, I fully knew the tank size required and I was at least honest with her about that lol, probably why she said no! Got a small 5 gal for the old Triops! These days i have a few tanks including a couple of fancy goldfish in a 30 gal but Triops were a great learning experience after all and glad I got to have them :)
@@completetechheads yeah, a 5 gal is perfect for them! Congrats, you're a good fish/crustacean keeper!
I only keep nano fish because I still don't have the space I desire for my fish tanks, so it's 10 gals all around the house 🤣
My favorite are fancy guppies and ember tetras, with some 7.5g cubes for my bettas
@@arthurheine5631 That sounds perfect as a small setup! I think you can keep fancier goldfish in slightly smaller tanks IF you do daily clean water changes and parameter checks, but then they WILL actually grow instead of being stunted and need an "upgrade" in terms of space, it's aaall about that water quality! My 2 fancies started in a 15 gal for the first year before they got too big! They were very happy with weekly vegetables and all that other good stuff. Ok now i have the urge to keep Triops again haha would recommend! They can get huuuge but only live for just over a month or so. Funny little creatures though! And from above, very cute :P
In Australia we call them Shield Shrimp. Their eggs are like dust and can survive 20 years dry.
Climate change? It's habitat destruction.
"Once again I'm trying to stay away from deep-sea because they're just too easy to make clickbait from"
DeepseaOddities: ☹
Tbf, Deepsea oddities is a deep sea specialized channel so...
Oi, I grew these as a kid! They're insanely funny, until they start eating each other. Kinda like hamsters.
Battling Gladiators even cooler
@@k.l.manring2083 you mean the sea monters things?
If you have hamsters that eat each other, then they are not hamsters. 😉
@@Andreas_42 no hamsters will DEFINITELY eat each other lmao
@@Andreas_42 our Russian dwarf didn't get the name "Genghis Khan" for nothing.
This video scared me cause I literally just bought triops after 10 YEARS and NOW you make a video of 'em, crazy stuff
they are watching you! haha
I currently have 6 triops longicaudatus in my aquarium. They're lovely critters, and quite acrobatic too. They like zooming around (sometimes upside down) and let themselves sink too the bottom while snacking on a piece of carrot. They lay eggs a lot and grow really fast. Their larvae grow from 1mm to over 1.5 cm in just two weeks. So yeah, they make for a fun conversation piece whenever I have friends over.
When I was a kid in the 1970's we went into the desert near El Paso, Texas dove hunting. There had been heavy rains and the temporary ponds were teeming with these strange creatures. We collected some and took them to the university where a biologist identified them as "tadpole shrimp". Fascinating creatures, and I was intrigued that they had been in the area for millions of years from the time there was a prehistoric sea. Sadly, the area where I found them was developed and I never saw them in the wild again. Good to know they're not endangered.
My cylindrical vase that was once home to me dearly departed triops, is currently home to 7 young stick insects.
I was expecting a 10 meter long shrimp or a 3 cm dinosaur. But this is excellent too. Thanks as always.
I remember I had one of these and went on holiday for a week, so I poured a ton of food into his tank. When I returned home, the madlad was still alive, and went on to live for another four weeks
I'm jealous lol, when I had triops the biggest one ate the other 2 one day and then died the next day. He was fine the day before 😭
Triops are the freaking best!!! I always had a little tank for them growing up! I would dry it out for extended amounts of time and set it in my window sill. Then a few months later I would rehydrate them and the eggs would hatch into a new generation! its partly what made me go into the field of biology!!
I had one of these as a pet. When I was 9 or 10.
"they are found in all continents": **exists**
Antarctica: *_i have no such weakness_*
Gosh, they look like a transitional evolutionary phase for early fishes like Osteostracan and heterostracan. I never them sea-monkeys that were sold in comic books!!! Wonderful program BGT!
If you haven't already, could you cover Schizomida? They're small arachnids that aren't very studied at the moment, which makes them quite fascinating! I didn't even know about them until recently, and would be curious to see what you'd have to say about them.
Are those the micro whipscorpions? Been a minute since I read up on arachnids....
@@gildedvulture7965 | They do look somewhat like tiny whipscorpions, or even tiny solifugae.
@@DrakoWulf I was thinking about the Palpigrades, a related arachnid species commonly called micro whipscorpions My bad....😒
I found them in temporary pools all over the Kaw River Valley decades ago. Some refereed to them as tadpole shrimp as they were about the color, size and shape of half grown bullfrog tadpoles. they spent much more time swimming upside down, eyes down, than eyes up, skimming the suface of the water for food. I reconded they avoided a lot of predation this way as the sediment of those temporary ponds had a lot of temporary predators. I haven't seen any for a long time.
They look like a cousin to the horse shoe crab!
As a kid i saw these guys in a pond in the middle of nowhere at a farm land of a friends of my dads, no one believed me that they were there and i had never know what they were until now
....oh heck nah bruh, I wish it was some kinda way that they would somehow stumble across them out there where you told them they were, and they think back, saying, "Remember when whatchu callem tried to tell us about these things and we didn't believe him?".... That would be awesome af...👍
I hatch brine shrimp nearly everyday to feed my fish.
Used to see triops a lot when I lived in El Paso. Ok, so, maybe not a lot, but once a year they had a monsoon season and these would fill the ponds that would form out in the desert.
In 1979 I picked up a Shield Shrimp, as we call them in Australia, from a rainwater puddle on top of Uluru (Ayers Rock).
these guys hatch in seasonal ponds in the Texas panhandle , it'll be dry for months then it'll rain 10 inches in a day or two and soon as the sun comes out these guys pop up !
How is it I've never seen so much as an image of these little guys til now? They're so cool looking with their helmets and three eyes.
Finally, a comprehensive, biologically-interested video on Triops species! I tried to do a study on these friends awhile back, but comprehensive information on them was scarce and typically vague at best. The fact that they're so often children's starter pets has really biased the sources on them.
My ex and I had a lovely colony of these bad boys. It was amazing to watch them grow, and as they grew they displayed their own personalities.
Did your ex get jealous?
Same actually, they were a pet projected I started back in high school, we even named 2 of them.
Your name isn't Stephanie or is it XD?
I love Triops! I raised some last year and they are such derpy apex predators. :D
Here in Germany they are marketed as Triops
Triops is a genus but there is also closely related genus called Lepidurus. It made an appearance at 2:08. Most Lepidurus are endangered and much rarer than their Triops relatives.
I found these little guys in New Mexico in small ponds and puddles when it would rain very cool little critters!
This video on the Tadpole Shrimp was pretty good,and I enjoyed it.
Had some of these guys when i was little... ran out of food for them and i couldnt get any addult to run to the store and buy more food for them so they just ate eachother... this was the first time i realised that nobody cares what i need or want unless it keeps up an illusion of care. I starred into that tank so long after the last one starved to death- the only thing going through my head is how this horrible end could have been prevented if somebody cared enough to listen and take action...
I had other pets after this that suffered similar fates. A bearded dragon who i couldnt get a new UVb bulb or heat lamp for and who i couldnt get any bugs for as treats. She only lived as long as she did because i could feed her salads and let her hang out in the sun outside sometimes.
After that i didnt want pets anymore... i hated watching them die from neglect while i was powerless to provide basic care.
Don't forget that these are ancient animals. One species exists since the triassic, meaning it is the oldest living species of the planet weve found (so far) 😎
Are you saying they are the first animal to exist
@@glarbo3965 No, they're saying the Triops* is the oldest species still found alive today.
Sorry, but a taxon that has existed in a similar LOOKING form for that long HAS evolved. Just not in visibly obvious ways. This is why biologists hate that "living fossil" phrase. No such thing really.
I used to have these as pets!
i had them when i was a kid, and yes, they are just like shrimp but smaller and more active, also, the way they reproduce is quite interesting
Three eyes, just like Kali. Cool!
That’s another name for them! Kalifish
They come out during our monsoon season here in Phoenix Arizona.
Nice presentation dude. Thanks.
These pop up in desert in Australia when it floods. Tried to keep them in an aquarium when I was 10 and didn't go well
I found some of them in a puddle in national park here in Austria and I was really confused as I only knew them from the small tanks I raised them in when I was little.
Went by park management on my way home and told them about it, which led to me having to guide a park ranger to the puddle because they wanted to better study the population of these little fellas
I had some of these as a kid, bought them from a scholastic fundraiser at school. I loved them and they lasted quite a long time and grew a decent size. So much more gratifying than the "Sea Monkeys" brine shrimp that are also more commonly known about. I always thought they were so much better than sea monkeys because they grew to such a larger size than brine shrimp.
I had a kit as a kid.
They are fascinating little creatures.
57 years old and never heard of them! Thank you! I can totally visualize what trilobites might have looked like now!
I read a newspaper article about the British species a few years ago. Apparently they are dependent for food on "cow pats" dropped in the water, but are threatened by cattle worming compounds.
Looks like a cross between a tadpole and a Horseshoe crab. I think I watched a deep look video about this species the other day too. Bonus!
I had these as a kid and one of them ATE all the others. He was worthy of survival for he was strongest.
When I was a kid I often found them in rice fields every spring, I was fascinated by these little creatures and didn't know the name of it, such good memories, thank you
I had one as a pet I kept in the bathroom from a kids set! Thing grew HUUUUUUUGE! 😂
I actually breed these a lot. It is super easy because they lay eggs so fast lol.
I bought a kid’s science kit with some dehydrated eggs years ago, and two eggs hatched several days ahead of the others. They did indeed eat all of their siblings as they hatched, not even bothering with the food I gave them. But the two cannibal champions never mated, so the experiment ended after one generation lol. 1/10 Survival
I have super fond childhood memories of these little guys! They cark it pretty quick though
I had these growing up. Unfortunately I never got them to fill age since the water I used had chlorine in it. Probably a good thing because they get big and I would not be able to keep them.
Oh, that's no problem, they'll eat each other until only the biggest is left, it will have enough space to grow to full size. Highlander shrimps, if you want.
Also nice Season's Greason's pfp.
I think triops is a great name. What's more interesting than having three eyes?
Tuatara also somewhat have three eyes, but are reptiles, which makes it much more strange to folks!
I hatched these Triops as a kid and was given a big fish tank to see what they did. They lasted a few months but then died out. With my parents help we still could not figure out how to keep conditions for them good long term in a single tank, even though it was big.
Fun and educational! And pretty cheap too!
The most exotic animal that you can order off Amazon.
I hope these boyos continue to live till the Earth can no longer support life, they deserve it with this many adaptations to survive and a streak of a few hundreds of millions of years survival as a species
I had one of these as a kid called Tiny Tim from a TriopWorld kit
The trioptics of this video are something to keep an eye on.
When I was smaller back where I lived in Mexico I found one of this animal but after it died I had never seen another one again
About to start growing a new batch of Cancriformis eggs, had em for years and it's about time I used them.
I remember having three of these as pets in kindergarten. Unfortunately they all died a while later which was a grief that it happened. The troops even got a burial in the woods wrapped in a napkin as a casket.
Thank you have never seen this creature before fascinating
This series is one of my favorite things on UA-cam. Keep up the good work!
Awesome! Used to keep these as pets
My cousins and I had these growing up in South Africa. We did also have sea monkeys but the triops are still cooler
Well, Now I need these in a tank, NOW! They look very weird yet cute in a way
I found some last summer, in a puddle on top of a forested hill. I live in Romania.
Triops ate the GOAT bruh i need to buy some more now that I actually know what im doing lol
Under resilience, I could almost compare these guys to Tardigrades.
Interestingly, due to the odd way scientific names are assigned sometimes, not all "triops" are in the genus Triops. Triopsidae contains TWO families. Lepidurus & Triops. So it's _slightly_ more correct to call, say, Lepidurus apus: a "tadpole shrimp", than to call it a "triops".
They are both in the same Order (Notostraca) and are both in the same family (Triopsidae) 'three-eyes kin,' but are in different genus of (triops) 'three- eyes' and (Lepidurus) 'scale-ox' (I'm assuming ox meaning hardy?) So with both genus being in the family (Triopsidae,) triops is acceptable for both genus, in common name i call them shield shrimp.
I used to own a triop. His name was Tripe and I loved him so much. I cried so much when he sadly passed away when I got back home to find him no longer breathing even though he was fine in the morning and I gave him a good amount of food.
I got a triops kit once as a kid! Unfortunately only 2 of the eggs managed to hatch, and like you mentioned of the 2 hatchlings one ended up eating the other but that lone survivor was such a fun pet to have! I think he ended up living close to 60 days which seems to be average but it was so fun watching him doing flips and whatnot in the tiny little dish the kit came with (in hindsight, it was far too small for any amount of adult triops greater than 1 and lack of any possible form of filtration kinda made it useless long term. Kind of impressed in hindsight that such an inadequate habitat was included for them as a permanent residence in that kit! I'm sure my little guy had a happy lifetime despite all that, he certainly never seemed in any sort of distress!
So much better than sea monkeys, and the tank can simply be siphoned off to let the sand dry. Afterwards, just add water!
I had one of the kits as a kid, all that grew was an algae mat under the surface of the water in the tank
Years ago, my brother had a tank full of these things. They Got HUGE! ( 1.5 inch) I thought he was raising baby horseshoe crabs.
Aw sweet a crustacean episode~ these little guys are pretty neat, I might try my hand at a self sustaining aquarium for these little guys
I used to have those as pets, anyone who ones had those as a pet knows how it usually ends🤧😅
your alcoholic dad puking into them and beating you for it?
@@TheSemajshadow did that happend to you?😂
Because for me, my triops just died for different, don’t know why, many other people had the same thing
@@thelittleal1212 my dad was a ass and I wasn't alowed any pets after that for 5 years.
@@TheSemajshadow well sad, well it’s just a small living thing, it’s way different from most other pets, like their lifespan is way lower
@@thelittleal1212 thank you alot. they used to make fun of me alot for years after it all happend.
Wonder if the eggs could survive space for a little bit.
I use to keep Triops, they are so fun to watch, they do cartwheels in the water. Sadly the adults don't live very long.
Hey theeae guys popped up in my neck of the woods for the first time in decaded, thanks to a very wet July...
They have that horse shoe crap look to them. No wonder they are called dinosaur shrimp as they would most likely be quite an ancient design in nature but still lives on because they have no need for change. Nature is amazing
Triops! I actually have a couple red longicaudatus eggs somewhere, maybe I'll start hatching them..
I’ve seen the kits in those young science catalogs. Always wanted to get some.
I think I have seen them in sandstone pools in the Utah redrock canyons.
Who would have thought it, a translucent horseshoe crab with 3 eyes and a whippy tail. Sounds like a great B movie monster, but even though you didn't say so, they appear to be quite small. It seems to be looking up at you with a quizzical look as if to say, what the heck are you, no tail, no shell, please don't eat me.
These fellas are super cool tho, they look so alien and I love them. It's like one of the creatures you find as fossils, and that's just absolutely cool
I found some of these in a waterhole while elk hunting in Arizona! It was so strange to come across them when I never have seen them in my life.
How sad to kill animals for sports.
I would’ve liked a little bit more about their anatomy. Just an opinion that I think would help. As I haven’t heard of these before this, I would’ve liked to have known a little more about how they are built and how they use it.
Cool creature
Dinosaur shrimp sounds like a Jurassic Park skit
PLZ , I would like to know more about small critters. Aquatic, or BUGGY. Especially the little... talked about. PLZ💗💋✌
Lived in Scotland for more than 40 years & never knew a thing about them.. Thanks for posting.. Subbed too, & looking forward to more great content, & also going through your back catalogue..👍
they are that successful because they are so adaptable to changes.
Their eggs are incredibly durable as the enter diapause.
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Damn maybe i should get some of these for my pond
When I was little, had multiple eggs of these things. Only one of them hatched and it died shortly after
I remember studying about them in school. Good times
Awesomeness..... I've never even heard about them before. I try to learn something new everyday.
People used to get called 'daft apus', when being silly, when I was a child. You only just made me remember the word for the fairy shrimp. I think the 'daft' version, is derived from 'halfpennyworth', now I think of it!