Nice vid, but D. longispina has a tail spine greater, sometimes much greater, than half the carapace length (longispina = long spine). I agree with Pond WaterWorld that this is probably D. pulex, it is certainly not D. longispina. Be wary of Google Images - most images are wrong, and many can be misleading. Try 'The Genus Daphnia' by John A.H. Benzie - expensive, but worth it.
I like your video very much. However, this specimen appears to be Daphnia pulex. Daphnia longispina is longer in length and is less fat. Still, great video. But no thanks for "going to the toilet in slow mo".
Thanks Bucketbox. The song is one of the freebies you find in the Audioswap section of Youtube. Sorry, can't find it again; I just picked one that sounded nice at the time. It's in the instrumental category somewhere
Awesome video by the way what it moves so fast inside the daphnia are they legs because the hearts is very small and is located in the back of the animal
Excellent "in vivo' observation. Good music background. How did you determined the species name? No matter, the video is great. I hope many young kids watch it and learn. College Biology teachers should show this in class.
KAMI?!?!?!
forthashorteez 1 month ago
beautiful!!
Bumbaramara 3 months ago
Is it weird that I think they're really cute...?
DOPPELMOVEMENT 3 months ago
Nice vid, but D. longispina has a tail spine greater, sometimes much greater, than half the carapace length (longispina = long spine). I agree with Pond WaterWorld that this is probably D. pulex, it is certainly not D. longispina. Be wary of Google Images - most images are wrong, and many can be misleading. Try 'The Genus Daphnia' by John A.H. Benzie - expensive, but worth it.
xythm 3 months ago
I like your video very much. However, this specimen appears to be Daphnia pulex. Daphnia longispina is longer in length and is less fat. Still, great video. But no thanks for "going to the toilet in slow mo".
PondWaterWorld 5 months ago
wtf is taht giant shacking thing? the heart?
filipe687 6 months ago
Nice! I got a end-of-year science class where I must study the effect of various chemical substances on the Daphnias heartbeats...
sErgEantaEgis12 9 months ago
that was fucking awesome
reggiejax 9 months ago
Beautiful work!
traxion666 10 months ago
i just did a lab with daphina last week. my lab partner and i named it billy bob. lol
xbloodystarx 11 months ago
it did a little brown fish!
weefunker 1 year ago
dude that janker totally took a dump on live tv
FFXGuitar 1 year ago
"going to the toilet in slow motion" a sentence I never want to hear or see again.
Amazing video!
jabes88 1 year ago
An astonishing video, thank you. How do you manage keeping the daphnia in a fixed position?
Phi1Mond 1 year ago
we saw it in bio class today. did it just excrete some excrement?
felixthemaster1 1 year ago
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pampamproductions 1 year ago
Hi. It's just a Canon Powershot compact camera, balanced on the top of the microscope
Iainp1211 1 year ago
What kind of camera was it?
scottohscott 1 year ago
Thats an amazing picture. Is it at 100x?
MHDMBS 1 year ago
wow what a treat!
RobertPolisher 1 year ago
Thanks Bucketbox. The song is one of the freebies you find in the Audioswap section of Youtube. Sorry, can't find it again; I just picked one that sounded nice at the time. It's in the instrumental category somewhere
Iainp1211 1 year ago
mind telling me the name of this song? Nice video btw, reminded me that daphnias only have 1 eye.
BucketbotX 1 year ago
Excelente!!!!!!!!!! FELICITACIONES
mhavellanal 2 years ago
do we eat this or drink this? :S
juanster555 2 years ago
@juanster555 we eat and drink a lot of stuff...
TheFrozenLord 1 year ago
Awesome video by the way what it moves so fast inside the daphnia are they legs because the hearts is very small and is located in the back of the animal
cryptosporidiumparvu 2 years ago
Many thanks!
Re finding the species, I rely heavily on Google Images ;-)
Iainp1211 2 years ago
Congratulations!
Excellent "in vivo' observation. Good music background. How did you determined the species name? No matter, the video is great. I hope many young kids watch it and learn. College Biology teachers should show this in class.
acociles 2 years ago
great video =)
neoflyboy 2 years ago
Thanks. It a trinocular scope (SP100) and I just pressed it against the lens and tried not to shake too much. Very low tech ;-)
Iainp1211 2 years ago
It's so nice. How did you mount the camera on the scope?
2003ligh 2 years ago
Wow!! That's so cute!
thelma0724 2 years ago
Thanks. Re cyclops: will do!
Iainp1211 2 years ago
this is really awesome .. please make/find another one with cyclops and other live fish foods
mugenlords 2 years ago
Amazing!
bosb33r 2 years ago