Triops, The Best Pet Crustacean (That Comes In A Kool-Aid Packet)?
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2023
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Triops, often called tadpole shrimp, are absolutely prehistoric looking creatures that resemble horseshoe crabs, but in a much smaller package. Speaking of small packages, they come in a Kool-Aid packet. So how does this even work? Are Triops good pets? Is Triops the best pet crustacean, or at least the best pet crustacean that comes in a Kool-Aid packet, for you?
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Aren't birds their own genus entirely?
Did I inspire this video becuase I asked on 2 of your videos
Can you make another shirt that says, "Chuck around and find out" with a Chuckwalla doing the side eye, or with its mouth open?
Can you also make a shirt that says, "Iguana go home." with a big rhino iguana on it?
Oh a shirt with a rattle snake that says "Feeling rattled?"
This brings back some slightly traumatic childhood memories. I got Triops from the Mickey Mouse magazine here in Germany over twenty years ago. It was all chill and fun until they started eating each other, leaving body parts floating around the tank. The ones that survived got HUGE, making the cannibalistic episodes even more visible and gruesome. In the end there were two of them left, one killed the other but left the body mostly intact. Both of them tried to eat me too when I stuck my finger into the water. The last one got bigger and bigger until it died as well and I had to bury this huge alien looking murder machine in the garden. I didn't want any pets for several years after that lol. Good times. Would give them another chance as an adult, they were quite cool despite everything
That was a better story than Twilight. Thanks!
They got the taste for crabmeat.
@Jenisonc ,
Kind of a low bar, there. Even for a CZcams comment
Yes, cannibalistic little buggers
This is like my childhood experiences with hamsters. When I was a kid, people would recommend them in pairs despite them being very territorial and aggressive. And my parents kept buying me more despite numerous *incidents*.
My typical hamster experience was having 2 cute fluffy orbs and then one day there was one large fluffy orb and a pile of hair and bones.
My science teacher in high school kept triops in a tank in the back of the class. He bought the packet at Wall Drug in 1979. He's been raising the decedents of that packet for over 40 years. He didn't start keeping count until a couple years after starting his colony but estimated (in 2014 mind you) that he was on approximately the 300th generation.
I never considered Triops for an episode, but i'm glad it got made! Hoping to see you cover Velvet worms at some point!
Yes please. I've been looking into pet velvet worms for years now.
@@elirevzen418only issue with keeping velvet worms is you basically need a refrigerator depending on where you live. They need low temperatures.
I'd love to see one on velvet worms, I've only seen pics but they're so cute!
OOH! Yes, velvet worms please!!
How about a show about conodonts?
I had eggs laying around in my basement from a triops kit I had as a kid (14 or more years ago at this point) and I jokingly tried to hatch them because I heard they can lay dormant from years and still hatch AND THEY DID
Did they make it to maturity?
Yep, i had a kit i ordered from the Scholastic catalogue in 2009 or so and they still worked in 2013. For some reason i had to convince my mum they were actually animals, she didn’t believe a creature could exist in a dried up egg. Of course 1 was cannibalized later on.
I really hope we get an episode on hermit crabs soon, they're one of the few (kinda) bugs that can bond with their owner
i didn’t know they could do that! i know jumping spiders and praying mantises can learn to associate you with trust and safety but i didn’t know hermit crabs could too, that’s really cool
I second that!
Especially with how abused they are from misinformation about their care. They cant just live in a small plastic critter keeper with a sponge to suck on. They need at least a twenty gallon tank for one or two small ones and a LOT more care then a wet sponge.
Also to highlight NOT getting one from a beach tourist shop. They paint the shells with toxic paint and then glue them into those shells so they are more appealing. They also are all wild caught.
@@xBloodxFangxman the insane things you learn people do to animals. Yuck
@@Oscar-42My first praying mantis Avery loved being held and knew her name she was awesome but of course died way too soon. 😭 I've had four other praying Manti (❓)...mantis' who didn't thrive as well as Avery did (I got them from another source). They have all passed now and I'd love another someday. I have 2 jumpers now, my regal male is very friendly the female is much more shy. My favorite "pets" lately are the jumbo sized crickets from our Petco, they have a ten gallon tank and eat like kings they are fun to watch but also don't live long enough...😔
Saw those in the "wild" when i was small, in a drying rice paddy. Was instantly blown away by the strange looking things that looked like they belonged in the deep ocean or something, that somehow exists en masse in tiny puddles way too small for them, miles and miles from any sea. Witnessing the whole thing was just a bizarre experience, may as well have seen an alien invasion, a total mystery. It wasn't years later that i learnt of what they were. Still fascinating.
Same! I thought I had imagined the experience.
That moment when you miss a few Clint videos and then you're dropped with Mantis are crustaceans, snakes are lizards, and birds are reptiles 😂
I need coffee and time to process that sentence
I hope you learned your lesson. You should NEVER miss one of our videos! 😉
@@ClintsReptiles Lesson definitely learned 😂
Well, it's theorized that snakes are highly specialized legless lizards (which exist).
Except that snakes sometimes have legs, a thing I learned from this very channel!
@@IrinaGreenmanI love how this is just smthn snake ppl know and have been holding out on us.
This could be my favorite collaboration we’ve done! 😁
It's hard to pick a favorite. It's such a treat every time you come over.
@@ClintsReptiles Well, to be fair, I have an absolute blast every single time!
i love it when two of my fave youtubers flirt together xD
Hopefully next time you bring a toebiter to surprise Clint with
@@SonicBoone56 You never know what we might cover next! 😁
"its not rocket surgery" new favorite quote :D
I'm 50 and raised brine shrimp and Triops as a kid. They care they require information has not changed much. That seems to be the only animal I cared for and raised whose care requirements were not needed to be updated.
they need shots and sensitivity training these days, champ. what if they bite someone? everyone’s chakras will dis align.
:)
Great that you covered them! You can actually "handle" Triops by holding your (clean) hand into the aquarium and letting them swim/climb on it. It´s fun.
Wish I knew that as a kid when I had them...
Do they tickle?
@@maryeckel9682 a tiny bit
It will eat you it's ugly
@@meghanwhipp-xr1qf wth no.
You could probably base a whole community fishtank on ephemeral pool species like triops, fairy shrimp, and annual killifish
Tripod would decimate everything though. Aqua dragons are pretty chill as had better success with them than the sea monkeys brine shrimp. I’ve tried to get fairy shrimp online but they aren’t nearly as popular for hobby keepers or even as live food as brine shrimp
Triops are wonderfully prehistoric looking.
Yes, yes you are. I mean ya, they look old hey? I wonder if they'd go with small fish and cherry shrimp
The triops lifecycle is very very similar to that of annual killifish. They usually live a few months instead of a few weeks, but it's the same idea: they live in temporary pools, hatching after the rains, grow really fast, breed like mad, then die as the pool dries up. They leave the eggs in the peat at the bottom of the pond. Killifish hobbyists send eggs to each other through the mail, then hatch them out themselves.
I never considered keeping something like these as a pet, I had no idea something this cool could be this easy to keep!
i really want to include some triops as part of my plant/shrimp/snail tank. also eyeballing dragonfly larvae, which can be 3 inches long locally.
One of my favorite memories of hiking in Utah is discovering these little guys in a puddle, a couple days after a rainstorm. I had no idea what they were, and I don't think I had considered before that water-breathing animals could live in the middle of the desert. It was amazing to see!
If they are the *best* pet that comes in a Kool-aid packet, then they can't be the *only* pet that comes in a Kool-aid packet. There's the next video series for ya!
I thought they did sea monkies already.... also daphnia could be covered
Gotta love a nimal that lives like a drink.
Thank you so much for covering them! I have kept them since I was a small child and seeing them coverd by you is a joy.
Loved these as a kid. One of the most exciting days of my life was when I found wild triops in a big ditch puddle outside a Perkins in Mesa, AZ
This channel will achieve apotheosis when Clint denies the Eukaryote/Prokaryote split.
Count on it!
As an educator, I love this channel. Clint, you are the man.
I am retired now, and eventually went on to teach music, but my first teaching gig, the first classroom I ever sat in front of was as a 13-year-old teacher at a Boy Scout camp. It was the reptiles merit badge and I’ll never forget it. Watching your channel brings all those memories roaring back with a newfound appreciation for your pedagogy. Thank you Clint. Keep it up!
I'd love to see you do a phylogenetic video on another crustacean group: the clade of insects encompassing all of the cockroaches (including termites) and their sister species: the awesome praying mantises.
OH GOD PLEASE, I LOVE ROACHES
@@SonicBoone56 Especially considering that they're the closest living relatives of the awesome praying mantises!
Possibly my favorite of all the videos we’ve made together, Clint!
One of the cutest crustaceans ( not counting any hexapods of course), they look a bit like if somone tried to draw a horshoecrab from memory.
It's so rare to encounter anyone who even knows the absolute scale of temperature exists.
80’s baby and raised these a few times as a kid so used to be somewhat common or easy to find. Brought back memories! 😅
I have had a box of these my brother got me a year ago and have been trying to research more about them before trying to hatch them, and now I get to hear some advice from Clint! I always leave watching these videos learning something
I had a pet triop once, one triop because it ate all it's friends. He or she lived for a entire year in a circular tank and grew to the size of a small prawn. Lovely beastie.
Russ his voice is sooo soothing! He needs his own show on TV! ❤
Awww, thank you!
i wasnt expecting this comment to be so true lolololol, i feel like ppl throw this compliment around sometimes but this time it’s for real real
"The eggs have a built in conservation feature to not hatch if it rains too briefly". That's absolutely fascinating, wild, insane. Think about that, mother nature just wow.
This is especially cool! And timely since they just showed up in the Nevada desert after Burning Man got rained out.
I have a huge weakness for anything that looks like it came from the Mesozoic like sharks, horseshoe crabs, certain shrimp, crocodilians, tuatara and some lizards 💚
Bought Triop eggs about a month ago and this video is coming in handy!
i’ve gotten them twice. i just can’t make them grow. they do come alive. they last a little while. but maybe i have hard water. or high chlorine levels… idk. i’ll try again. :)
@@JavierFernandez01Try Aqua Dragons. They also seem to excrete less waste and keep the water clear longer
You should cover guinea pigs, I think they're the best small pets. They have such big personalities in a tiny package.
We will for sure!
Yes. As a fan of stinky, poopy, hungry mammals, I'm always feeling that they are being left out. Of course, the name of the channel is Clint's Reptiles, so I can only complain so much.
I'm still upset that Clint gave cats a higher score than dogs, even though the former should be considered an ecological cat-astrophe wherever they are allowed to roam.
I do agree with the rating on human children, though. Worst pet ever!
I've kept them for a few years. I enjoy doing them in my classroom & the BEST part is that if done correctly, you only buy them once!
Aquarimax Pets collabs are the best
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I've always wanted to keep these. I've always wondered of you could somehow selectively breed for size and a bit of longevity in captivity since they're such a hardy and long lived species.
Sure in theory, if you can eliminate the smaller ones from reproducing, provide proper nourishment and introduce simulated challenges which act as natural selection, you can get fine specimens over time but how long it takes depends i guess.
do it
Sounds like a cool thing for an elementary school science classroom
My preschool had one 20 years ago 😂 called it dinosaur shrimp
I love animals/plants that are technically capable of you keeping forever.
Triops and things like elephant ear plants can reproduce, spread, and even after the original population is long gone, if everythings right, theres still their babies or even grandbabies living there
Their little legs are so cute; I love how they move and dig.
I am so glad you are covering these!! My dad got me these as a kid and I loved watching them grow! I remember naming the biggest one Godzilla 😝
I used to always think of triops as kid stuff. Some flavor of sea monkeys. I never thought it could be like having some kind of aquatic phoenix for a pet.
4:45 To the men on the moon, we are but simple landfish, living in a dense oxygen/nitrogen sea
Oh heck yeah, I'm so happy you're doing this.
I've been keeping sea monkeys for a long time. They're just pleasant to look at & super easy to keep.
Been using them as practice, keeping up with temperature changes & so on. Help me to feel confident enough to get something a little more interesting like a snake or lizard.
Because I really don't want my negligence or stupidity killing the poor thing.
I've had triops as a kid, but they never did well. Have been tempted to try it again due to the sea monkey success.
I’ve done way better with brine shrimp than Triops and my Aqua Dragons as an adult were breeding like crazy and I think they got bigger than my Sea Monkeys as a kid
Lots of annual seeds germinate better if they’ve been dehydrated first too.
Clint is the most wholesome youtuber in the game. No doubt.
You seriously bamboozled me with that "praying mantis are crustaceans like snakes are lizards, and birds are reptiles" line
They are great for a tiny office fishtank. I use a local freshwater seaweed that is a food source and also oxygen. No bubbler needed.
Oh my god I actually have a triops packet that's a good decade old this is the perfect video for me!
A couple of the rice paties near me in california have a decent size population of endangered triops
They are the vernal pool tadpole shrimp
Yoursel and Ben G Thomas's videos, along with a few others, made me find and redo a Diploma in Biology and then a Diploma in Anthropology and I passed Biology again but feel more in tune with modern thinking because the last time was in the late 80s. I am just at the point of my final Anthropology assessment and just wanted to thank you for kick starting my obsession with learning. Its hugely enjoyable even at the age of 65! Aw cute faces on the triops.
I’d love to see you do a video on the duck-billed platypus!
Me too!
Maybe I just needed a laugh this morning, but this is definitely your funniest and most entertaining video for me to date. Then again, I'm a big nerd too.
So fun to see these little guys featured! I had some when I was a preteen, marketed as 'Instant Creatures', and I remember being so delighted by the fact that they did hatch and grow very fast. I don't remember what happened to them so I presume it was nothing too traumatic and they just died of natural causes, and I always looked back on the experience fondly and have thought about keeping some of them again. Maybe I will at some point! EDIT: I may have been even younger, since Instant Creatures were from Planet Dexter around 1996. Good times though!
how ironic, i just used my triops kit i bought like two years ago. i put the eggs in a week ago and i have exactly one triop and like 8 clam shrimp lol
Rus always has the coolest creatures.
Thank you 😁
I don’t know how,but this channel keeps getting more awesome.
Earlier videos were “second most”
So glad you did something with Russ! 👍👍👍
It is always loads of fun!
Triops are such cool creatures, it's a shame they don't live for very long.
I once got a pack of triops eggs when I was a kid. Best $5 I've ever spent!
Matchbox 20! I've seen them live twice. I love them and I love triops. This was a great episode for two reasons! :)
Saw them play in July and holy cow, they put on an awesome show!
This video was what taught me about these adorable little guys and now I have eggs being shipped tomorrow with a container prepared, super excited! Thanks for teaching, Clint!!!
Ah, yes, my first ever pet!
I was so fascinated by them.
“Must get big, no time for weapons” is the best kind of animal Imo lol
Wow I have never even heard of these guys! And a small biology lesson to boot! Thanks for all you do! Have you ever considered covering zebra skinks in the future?
I have a colony of them!
This is neat how about sea monkies now? Maybe even a head to head?
gotta love that Russ gives temp in all measuring units in existence
"Wasn't there yesterday and will be gone in a few weeks...as will you"
wait, wut 😂
The puddle in which you live. You're a Triops.
Imagining Clint singing his heart out to match box 20 is just the most wholesome thing I didn't know I needed today
Lmfao
I love triops! I had these once as a teen and they helped me on my journey of getting over my fear of 'creepy-crawlies'. Ever since then I've always wanted to do a big setup with them when I have the space and the funds!
Always remembered these guys from a silly They Might Be giants song. Anyway, since everyone's listing suggestions, I gotta say my own favourite; pangolins! Can't believe there hasn't been a pangolin episode yet
Well, considering these videos are generally about the pet hobby and pangolins are endangered, that's probably not going to happen unless we get Clint to visit them in their natural habitat.
@jameswoodard4304 Of course, but that's the case with a lot of animals in these videos and he does a great job explaining why and how they're protected and why people shouldn't have them as pets. But you're right in that it'd probably have to wait for the SE Asia trip that's been mentioned a few times
Yes! More crustaceans! I hope we get to see amano shrimp as the best pet crustacean soon to!
True or just group dwarf shrimp like neocardina and caridina species maybe amano on their own and bamboo and vampire shrimp are fairly unique freshwater wise.
@@Slawsers absolutely the bamboo and vampire shrimp deserve a video to!!
I am irrationally hyped for a big channel to cover triops. I love them so much and I hope lots more people get into keeping them because of this video!!!
I lived on the desert for many years and never saw these amazing little guys. Fascinating to know I could actually grow some! Thank you for the excellent episode!
You did it too me again Clint. 🙄Looks like I'm ordering some Triops. 😀👍
it's like a sliverfish had bebehs with a horseshoe crab.
It seems like a fascinating species for longterm experimentations.
im sitting here thinking wait they only live for like 2 months every 2--20 years so thats like 1%--10% of the time active so if they are 200 million years old then really they only have 200 thousand--2 million years worth of "active" evolution ....
They are adorable
6:06 "When it comes to care, it's not rocket surgery."
Hurray! That's a mixed idiom. It's a combination of, "it's not rocket science" and "it's not brain surgery", both of which mean, "it's not difficult".
I had some of these as a kid! I remember mine kept me awake at night because I could hear it digging around in its rocks lol... Was just thinking about giving these another go.
Professor Neil Shubin, one of my favorite authors and a (fish) paleontologists, has always said we are just fish at heart. And fish at lungs, brain, and limbs. He's the guy who found tiktaalik.
15:54 "That is not dead, which can eternal lie and in strange eons even death may die."
Rockets don't generally require medical intervention. They do require science quite often.
I love your content! These things are so strange. Thank you for talking about them!
That's one of the most informative guests I've seen on your channel. What a nice feature! You are the best at producing entertaining content about things I've never heard about, Clint.
"This is just the worst channel on CZcams." 🤣 This guy is hilarious. So many gems in just the first 2 minutes alone.
OMG I JUST LEARNED WHAT DESICCATION MEANT IN A ANIMAL BOOK EARLIER LIKE 2 DAYS AGO AND NOW ITS IN A CLINTS REPTILE VIDEO!!! I love this channel.
Considering they live in a pond in the desert I’d say they are great pets off that. Any animal you can take from the wild and give a better life in captivity is a good pet in my opinion.
Where would you rather live, in a random desert pool or in a fish tank in Clint’s house, getting the tank cleaned, fresh water, fed on a regular basis and no baking hot sun
You do not know how long I've been waiting for this, I loved this one!
I saw the thumbnail and was like "tf is that thing?" And knew I had to click. Fascinating. Thank you.
I just love how recently I’ve been looking into triops and couldn’t find any sufficient video I was looking for then this just so happened to upload a day later, thank you so much
Absolutely adoring these few crustacean videos, right in time for my own personal fixation.
A SPONGE filter operated by an air pump is the IDEAL filter you should use for these.
omg they're so cute!! :3 They remind me of my sea monkeys! They too have eggs that can last for years before hatching. :3
Ever since i was a kid and ordered these from a schoolastic book in elementary school I've loved them ever since. Such cute little creatures
1:37 "THEY DIE!" jeez Clint
So proud of myself for understanding all of that first minute lol
Love triops! For so many years, there was not much info on long term, multi generational care. (Cause packet instructions didn't cover that for some reason.🙄 ) That's one thing that is awesome about the internet. People figured it out, and shared the info!😃
Can you do a video on clam shrimp next? They are like larger fairy shrimps that develop and live in a clam shaped shell!
When I first saw this I wondered if this was the end of the channel. After watching it I went to the links and ordered me triops. Thank you so much Clint.