Triops longicaudatus from Rodeo, New Mexico. These living fossils spend most of the year as dried-up eggs in the desert, and hatch when monsoon rains form large puddles. They grow quickly, eating fairy shrimp (also pictured in video), mosquito larvae, snails, and a variety of aquatic invertebrates. They attain a maximum size of about 4 centimeters before laying eggs as the puddles dry up. These animals have changed little in 70 million years. They swim with their many legs (up to 132 in …
Watch in hq. Vid from a while ago. Two of my triops were close to death (pretty old) so I filmed em getting eaten lol. Don't put pointless comments its not cruel…. …
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Another video of my triops longitacaudus eating worms. The footage is from quite a while ago but I just havn’t gotten round to editing it. More vids to come.
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It took a little longer to make the second video because that camera was broken(with the help of my dad). Now they are 25 days old and still happily swimming around in my little aquarium. I now feed them Glassworms which they like a lot.
Song: Jesper Kyd & Rom Di Prisco – Frozen Babylon
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this is my triops tutorial
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