Growing GIANT Beavertail Fairy Shrimp!

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A human sized sea monkey called a "sea ape" will forever haunt my nightmares.

I used to love growing these as a kid! I kept my last set alive for 3 months when I was 9. BUT, I stopped growing them because my older sister knocked that tank over, I was so proud of the work I put in to get them so big! so I cried while my sister told me to suck it up and that it wasn't that serious. She left to go play video games. To this day she says she never knocked them over. But I remember the trauma of seeing them on my mom's red rug and having to clean them up alone while I cried. I'm 27 and I live with my significant other now, so I think it's time I buy a new one to try again for nostalgia's sake.

It's so cool seeing you raising things other than sea monkeys!

“I’m sure you guys can relate” 💀😂

I think the reason you might have had so few by the end is the fact that the instructions recommend a 10 gallon (38 L) tank if you want to end up with ~15 adults.

12:00 "I'm sure you guys can relate" OOOOH, THE BURN! Nice one!

This channel is starting to resemble a proper biology/aquarium science channel more and more with each passing video. Good job man, I hope you can keep branching out. I love the microscope and macro lens shots. You seem to enjoy it and take a lot of pride in it yourself, which is something I can strongly relate to. After all, after youthful vigor comes middle age refinement LOL. Enjoy your spring/summer in NZ!

I love the fact that all these small shrimp species look just like an Anomalocaris

Its kinda predictable that there would be bacterial issues, the instructions recommended a 10 gallon tank for a reason.

As someone who is so afraid of bugs. I found this video very calming and sometimes traumatising

I believe the bacterial bloom could be a consenquence of the lack of water change. I change my triop's water once every couple of days to prevent such things for occuring. Great video as always! :)

Thanks John, I love seeing the alternative shrimp speciies. I saw someone who built a habitat, where he added water to hatch the shrimp and let it drie up in cycles.

10:42 I agree, 2 inches is absolutely enormous

Happy to see the other bacterial bloom comments... The beavertails are considered an Advanced hobbyist species. I bought a kit six months ago.. after killing the eggs without the detritus. Killed after hatching.. Lasted less than a week. Glad I watched this, before hatching the kit.. Overfeeding is the biggest problem, especially in a small tank. The water does not need to look foggy at all for there to be enough to eat. An added note: I added Seachem Stability... for the beneficial nitrifying bacteria, when raising brine shrimp. I think it was helpful!

I love that company. It's so cool to see them getting a shout out on YouTube. I had a tank of red tail fairy shrimp, triops, and a few other critters going for ten years from their stock.

I love the freshwaters too, "thamnocephalus mexicanus" looks like a cartoon shrimp lol

"for 30 seconds or so, im sure you guys can relate" i had no idea i came to this video to get roasted today.

The way they swim is so delightful!!!!

I’d be immensely interested in seeing you cultivate freshwater species too! They are such fascinating animals.