Tag: daphnia

Shrimp! Daphnia and fairy shrimp, mostly. Hopefully a mix of beavertail and fairy shrimp, but I can’t tell yet because they’re too young. 

Captions:

*video shows a number of small invertebrates swimming at the surface of an aquarium. Some are round and move in jerking motions, some are long, thin, and swimming upside-down by means of a large number of tiny legs that move in rippling motions. The round ones vastly outnumber the slender ones, at least a 4:1 ratio, but are smaller. The water around them is visibly cloudy, and all the round invertebrates are crowded near the surface, where a light is visible. Narrator is not visible.*

“This is actually a really good view. Here’s my assorted shrimp. Those are probably daphina at the surface, li’l poppy guys, and then the long ones with the li’l wiggly legs are fairy shrimp. And I just fed them, which is why the water’s kinda cloudy, they’re eating yeast. And they’re attracted to the light, which is why there’s all that popcorn [referring to the popping motions of the round invertebrates clustered at the surface] up there. Little fairy shrimp just kinda wiggling around. Those smaller ones that look kinda like short fairy shrimp are newer-hatched ones, a whole bunch of them hatched when I added new water ‘cos they thought it rained.”