The swimmy little guy.
Tag Archives: Aquatic
Reggae Triops!
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 …
Triops longicaudatus–Discovery Day!
(Pronounced wrong in the video, I know!) While Brit and I were at work in the Globe District of the Tonto National Forest in Arizona, we discovered a cattle tank full of triops! Until this encounter, I had never even heard of triops. Now I’m a triops addict! If you’re interested in the whole story, I wrote a short post about it at deserthominid.blogspot.com Cheers, Ken
Modern Reliks Triops
This is the 1st video of my little Triops! I dont know if it’s a male or female so it’s called Franky Tracy triops Enjoy!
My first triops
This is a short clip of “Biggy”,my first triops.It was so wonderful to watch her growing up.Triops are really strange,bizarre and funny animals.To watch her was like to have a window back to the first time.