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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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 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
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.
@@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...😔
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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!
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
"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.
If in this case by mother nature you mean, "Wow, what an incredibly advantageous mutation." Nobody designed that, it just happened one day and those descendants had a huge advantage over the ones that didn't.
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 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.
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.
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!
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 💚
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!!!
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!
I found and subscribed to your channel a couple of months ago. Since then, I've started at your first video, working my way to the most current. Liking each video as I go. I love the comment, but also, a small part of me wants a pet. Something that's not a lifestyle and won't break my bank. I can't do the "Fluffy needs a life-saving medical procedure that costs $5000." choice thing. I had reptiles when I was younger, so those are always in my peripheral, but your channel has taught me that even though I thought I was doing right by them, I wasn't. I've watched this video 4 times in a row now and will likely watch it a few more. I'm having these delivered to my door as you said. I've bought those twice before. The first time with some success. The second time, well while I was at work, someone took it upon themselves to start the kit I had been holding onto and used tap water. That person isn't part of my life anymore. Draw whatever conclusions you need to. Lol I'm still working my way forward but wanted to say thank you for all your help and hard work. Also, have you considered doing a video (if you haven't already and I've not gotten to it yet) about fresh water shrimp like red cherry shrimp? I had an aquarium with only those once and I've considered (still am) doing those again. Please keep up the great work. Thank you
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.
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!
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!
I received a little box of T. longicaudatus eggs for Yule. These will make an interesting aquatic neighbor for my isopod colonies. I rely very heavily on Rus's advice for those, and I'll be following it for my triops as well.
0:08 I know this is an extremely petty complaint but I think given how bizarrely specific this video is, Clint probably wouldn’t mind. These guys are Branchiopods, not Brachiopods. Brachiopods are a phylum within the clade Sprialia, whereas Branchiopods are the class of Ecdysozoans including water fleas and triops.
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.
Clint, you're the best!😂 I love that I can have a blast learning reliable trivia about stuff I never even thought I'd ever hear about. Thank you for everything, and especially for being you. Have an amazing new year, full of awesome unbelievable stuff to teach us! (Once I am no longer an indebted student, I plan on joining your Patreon, and spend a few days off the surface of the earth binging all the extra videos on there😅)❤
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
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!😃
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.
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.
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.
When I was a kid we would find these in a man made ground stock tank. It had an adobe bottom not sand. we called them tadpole shrimp. We also found fairy shrimp in the same tank every year after the start of the rainy season..
Very fun video :) Triops are such interesting creatures, and it's cool that you can keep them as pets. "Colony" type pets are a totally different style of pet and it makes them pretty interesting! I also love that they have "three eyes." Well, not really, but two compound eyes and 1 special organ for light sensing.. so unique!! I still really want a video on pigeons someday, your coverage of them would be so cool to see. They're probably better pets than any sort of parrot, and come in so many unique breeds, I bet you could have a very fun time talking about one of the most underrated domestic dinosaurs :>
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 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
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
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?
They make great pets! I had a 1 gallon setup with them and it was so fun watching them dig and play all the time. Not to mention when they found prey (or food pellets) they would strike dramatically like the predator they are.
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. :)
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.
There was a remote farmer's field when I was a kid, and if we had heavy rains that left puddles they would be filled with fairy shrimp. I thought I was seeing things the first time I found them.
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".
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.
I just want you to know that I LOST MY ENTIRE MIND when I saw the thumbnail for this. I have been fascinated with these since I learned of their existence and this episode was a pure delight.
I had a triop as a kid. I don’t remember how we got the packet, but only one seemed to appear in the tank. It didn’t get very big and it didn’t live very long. I think we also had a singular brine shrimp at some point. Yah, we didn’t have much luck with tiny crustaceans.
I love to breed Daphnia. They are very tiny though, so not much to look at (except under a microscoop maybe). They are very cool critters too. Useful for cleaning a tank full of algae, but also as fish food. I feed them to almost all my fish (except the corydoras, they like blackworms better (which are also cool to breed)). The more you harvest, the bigger the colony gets. Only problem is to grow algae. Somehow I can't get my pots to grow enough algae. So each spring I have to buy new Daphnia. But if you are able to grow algae, they are so cool!
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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?"
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.
Do you remember how big the tank was?
@@Ahahashir I do not, I remember tho he did have a few tanks he moved them between
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 RUclips 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.
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?
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.
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...😔
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.
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.
:)
@@JavierFernandez01what the hell is a chakra
@@Martyr1968 nothing. whats a chakra with you? :D
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
@@SockyNoob You never know what we might cover next! 😁
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.
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!
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.
"its not rocket surgery" new favorite quote :D
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.
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.
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!
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
Possibly my favorite of all the videos we’ve made together, Clint!
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
15:54 "That is not dead, which can eternal lie and in strange eons even death may die."
"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.
If in this case by mother nature you mean, "Wow, what an incredibly advantageous mutation." Nobody designed that, it just happened one day and those descendants had a huge advantage over the ones that didn't.
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
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
This channel will achieve apotheosis when Clint denies the Eukaryote/Prokaryote split.
Count on it!
Clint is the most wholesome youtuber in the game. No doubt.
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 don’t know how,but this channel keeps getting more awesome.
Earlier videos were “second most”
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 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.
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
Their little legs are so cute; I love how they move and dig.
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.
“Must get big, no time for weapons” is the best kind of animal Imo lol
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
@@SockyNoob Especially considering that they're the closest living relatives of the awesome praying mantises!
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!
4:45 To the men on the moon, we are but simple landfish, living in a dense oxygen/nitrogen sea
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 💚
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!!!
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!
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!
it's like a sliverfish had bebehs with a horseshoe crab.
I found and subscribed to your channel a couple of months ago. Since then, I've started at your first video, working my way to the most current. Liking each video as I go. I love the comment, but also, a small part of me wants a pet. Something that's not a lifestyle and won't break my bank. I can't do the "Fluffy needs a life-saving medical procedure that costs $5000." choice thing. I had reptiles when I was younger, so those are always in my peripheral, but your channel has taught me that even though I thought I was doing right by them, I wasn't. I've watched this video 4 times in a row now and will likely watch it a few more. I'm having these delivered to my door as you said. I've bought those twice before. The first time with some success. The second time, well while I was at work, someone took it upon themselves to start the kit I had been holding onto and used tap water. That person isn't part of my life anymore. Draw whatever conclusions you need to. Lol I'm still working my way forward but wanted to say thank you for all your help and hard work. Also, have you considered doing a video (if you haven't already and I've not gotten to it yet) about fresh water shrimp like red cherry shrimp? I had an aquarium with only those once and I've considered (still am) doing those again. Please keep up the great work. Thank you
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 😝
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.
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.
@@AmazingRebel23 I remember having a nightmare that I drank seamonkeys by accident as a little kid
Can you do a video on clam shrimp next? They are like larger fairy shrimps that develop and live in a clam shaped shell!
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!
I received a little box of T. longicaudatus eggs for Yule. These will make an interesting aquatic neighbor for my isopod colonies. I rely very heavily on Rus's advice for those, and I'll be following it for my triops as well.
0:08 I know this is an extremely petty complaint but I think given how bizarrely specific this video is, Clint probably wouldn’t mind. These guys are Branchiopods, not Brachiopods. Brachiopods are a phylum within the clade Sprialia, whereas Branchiopods are the class of Ecdysozoans including water fleas and triops.
You seriously bamboozled me with that "praying mantis are crustaceans like snakes are lizards, and birds are reptiles" line
I love doggos and doges but they seriously changed the meaning of that word.
Oh my god I actually have a triops packet that's a good decade old this is the perfect video for me!
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.
Clint, you're the best!😂
I love that I can have a blast learning reliable trivia about stuff I never even thought I'd ever hear about. Thank you for everything, and especially for being you. Have an amazing new year, full of awesome unbelievable stuff to teach us!
(Once I am no longer an indebted student, I plan on joining your Patreon, and spend a few days off the surface of the earth binging all the extra videos on there😅)❤
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 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
Imagining Clint singing his heart out to match box 20 is just the most wholesome thing I didn't know I needed today
Lmfao
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
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!😃
Aquarimax Pets collabs are the best
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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.
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.
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
When I was a kid we would find these in a man made ground stock tank. It had an adobe bottom not sand. we called them tadpole shrimp. We also found fairy shrimp in the same tank every year after the start of the rainy season..
Very fun video :)
Triops are such interesting creatures, and it's cool that you can keep them as pets. "Colony" type pets are a totally different style of pet and it makes them pretty interesting! I also love that they have "three eyes." Well, not really, but two compound eyes and 1 special organ for light sensing.. so unique!!
I still really want a video on pigeons someday, your coverage of them would be so cool to see. They're probably better pets than any sort of parrot, and come in so many unique breeds, I bet you could have a very fun time talking about one of the most underrated domestic dinosaurs :>
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!
So glad you did something with Russ! 👍👍👍
It is always loads of fun!
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
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
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!
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!
They make great pets! I had a 1 gallon setup with them and it was so fun watching them dig and play all the time. Not to mention when they found prey (or food pellets) they would strike dramatically like the predator they are.
I love your content! These things are so strange. Thank you for talking about them!
You do not know how long I've been waiting for this, I loved this one!
I appreciate the fact that the kelvin measurements were provided. I (unironically and fully seriously) use kelvin exclusively.
This is one of my favorite channels. Always learning something 😁
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.
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
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.
They are adorable
There was a remote farmer's field when I was a kid, and if we had heavy rains that left puddles they would be filled with fairy shrimp. I thought I was seeing things the first time I found them.
At 1:28 I really thought that he was gonna say "yes" and I was about to lose it
Lots of annual seeds germinate better if they’ve been dehydrated first too.
Russ and Clint in a video together, always means it's gonna be a good day 👍 cool Video.
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’d love to see you do a video on the duck-billed platypus!
Me too!
Sounds like a cool thing for an elementary school science classroom
My preschool had one 20 years ago 😂 called it dinosaur shrimp
Hey
Just want to say that these cute fossils are the inspiration and main subject of my PhD.
So happy that you covered them.
It seems like a fascinating species for longterm experimentations.
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.
I just want you to know that I LOST MY ENTIRE MIND when I saw the thumbnail for this. I have been fascinated with these since I learned of their existence and this episode was a pure delight.
I had a triop as a kid. I don’t remember how we got the packet, but only one seemed to appear in the tank. It didn’t get very big and it didn’t live very long. I think we also had a singular brine shrimp at some point. Yah, we didn’t have much luck with tiny crustaceans.
Russ got a great t-shirt, super cool ❤❤❤
I remember growing triops. Only one survived then it disappeared one day. I liked him
Absolutely adoring these few crustacean videos, right in time for my own personal fixation.
I love to breed Daphnia. They are very tiny though, so not much to look at (except under a microscoop maybe).
They are very cool critters too. Useful for cleaning a tank full of algae, but also as fish food. I feed them to almost all my fish (except the corydoras, they like blackworms better (which are also cool to breed)).
The more you harvest, the bigger the colony gets.
Only problem is to grow algae. Somehow I can't get my pots to grow enough algae. So each spring I have to buy new Daphnia. But if you are able to grow algae, they are so cool!
My triop (only one hatched) was so cool, he was very active and I was so sad when he died! I may get another set, it was great fun to have him. ❤
gotta love that Russ gives temp in all measuring units in existence