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Interesting thought. They really look like cochineal bugs, but I think there is no semi-aquatic cochineal variety.

Ahhhhh thanks mate ☺️😇

Thank you for naming the species - I already had the feeling that these little guys are springtails. Now you confirmed it ✅☺️

​@@naturalaquariums76 there's also other's. orange and silver ones can't float tho, so idk if they be found unless there was a lot of dry area on the surface/a palidarium setup

@ the duckweed forms a stable “island” on the surface. Here, the springtails should have a stable piece of land to live on🤩

Thanks for naming the species and even the Latin name, very precise 🙌✅ After searching for Podura aquatica on google i found that this species usually looks dark/black. The springtails in my tank look rather transparent. I wonder if it’s still this semi-aquatic species or just “normal” springtails that live on the surface?

@ their coloration depends on light intensity from what I have seen, the ones in my high tech tanks with strong lights have black coloration while the ones in the tanks with weaker lights have orange coloration, happy newyear btw m8!

@ happy 🆕 year to you too, mate ☺️😇🙌

@ Thanks! Really appreciated:D

Thaaaaaank you Talisa, i will post an update in the next days 😊🌱

That’s a nice idea mate! 🎉

You keep African dwarf frogs and raccoons? 😜 Or are the raccoons just living in the wild nearby?

@naturalaquariums76 haha precisely, the racoons won't leave my garbage alone! Today leftover plain asparagus is on the menu for the snails, shrimp, fish, and frogs - at least I can freeze that for a while!

You mean the guppy with the tail that looks like fire 🔥?🙂 This one made lots of offspring, many younger guppy males in the tank now (2weeks after recording this video) look similar to this guppy. 🙏

@naturalaquariums76 yeah that one, beauty 🤩

Sehr gerne! Es freut mich, dass es Dir gefallen hat 😊

Cheers Mate! "I think the white things might be Damselfly nymphs but I can't see them well in the video clip." 👉🏻 Yes i got that confirmed by many other viewers already. I won't put them into my community fish tank, i'm afraid they will eat my guppy fry. Love that your scuds are breeding already, i really hope my scuds will like their new environment as well. :)

Vielen Dank für den Tipp, ich hatte vor 2 Wochen bei Garnelio geschaut und leider nichts gefunden. Daher habe ich die etwas kältere und günstigere Variante vorgezogen :)

I agree - thanks for pointing it out, mate! 😊 👉🏻 I got that confirmed by many other viewers already, so i'm pretty sure they are damselfly nymphs at this point. Greetings from Southern Germany 🐟😊

Thanks for watching my video 😇 are coy also a fish keeper? Would be interesting to see some animals native to your region 😊

I watched a documentary about caddisfly larvae years ago. Very interesting creatures. I watched it a long time ago, so i actually forgot they even existed. It’s a great idea to get them into the tank. Will add them to my list ☺️ Greetings from Heilbronn - Germany 🇩🇪

That sounds absolutely horrible! I want to prevent that at any cost. These fish never faced any serious predator for at least 20 generations :D I will buy a very tiny net to only catch the scuds and put them to my community tank then. What kind of fish are you keeping?

Cheers mate, thanks for mentioning this. There is some duckweed in there at the moment and so far, it is the only plant that has survived. The newly added plants are also dying already and it has only been 4 days since i put them in there. I do daily water changes now. As a benefit, this will help acclimate the scuds to the tank water as a side effect, because i always add tank water. Greetings from Southern Germany :)

@@naturalaquariums76 I'm confused by the daily water changes. Isn't that wiping out or decreasing a lot of the microbial life in the jar?

Yes and no: It would decrease microorganism & bacteria load, if i just used clean tap water - however, i use water from my ecosystem tank, which contains lots of beneficial bacteria (but is quite clean and does not smell or rot). :)

Cheers mate! Never heard of mayfly larvae before, the insects look cool. I'm quite sure we do not have them over here in Germany though :)

What do you mean? Serpa Design is an amazing channel, I love his videos ☺️

Hey there, thanks for subscribing and thanks for the question about English / German, which is not offensive at all. 🙂 Yes, every kid in Germany has to learn English in school (most of the time starting in the 5th grade, sometimes earlier). Also, depending on the region, children have to learn French, Polish or Czech according to my knowledge. My English might have a Schwarzenegger-vibe because Arnold is originally from Austria and they also speak German in Austria, which might explain it 😅 Thank you for subscribing 😇

Die meisten Zuschauer dieses Kanals sind tatsächlich US-Amerikaner. Du bist aber nicht der einzige Deutsche, ca. 5% der Views meiner Videos stammen aus Deutschland 🇩🇪😉

Vielen Dank - ich lege großen Wert auf mein Denglish 🌱🙌😃

Which one are you referring to?🧐

Which ones? Scuds? 😂😂😂

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thanks for the feedback - i agree, father fish is amazing :)

awwwww thank you so much - I've been keeping fish way before i even heard about father fish, but he inspired me to go more natural and include microfauna and stuff from ponds :)

@@naturalaquariums76 same for me lol! started looking into microfauna more and i felt like my eyes had opened. it's all i think about now, i see a random puddle and have to fight the urge to go dig in it for more fauna to bring home!🤣

Haha 😂 I can relate 100%!

Haha - this is so true. Just came home and entered my fish room, this one jar is enough to make the whole room smell like a festival toilet :D :D

@naturalaquariums76 😂😂😂

:) :) :)

I'm so excited to add them, i hope they won't instantly end up as live food for the fish though :D

I think , if you don't have too many big fish or cichlids in your tank , they can last "forever" ! In my big tank (300 liter), where I have 7 denison barbs, 3 synodontis petricola , 1 male hemichromis exsul , 2 sae and 1 bristlenose pleco , at spring time , i added about 300 scuds every week ! They lasted about 3 to 4 days each time ! In my small tank i added them once , and they lived until summer , and then suddenly died of !!!! I couldn't even find them in the water where I collected them in spring anymore ! They had died of there too! Next year i will definitely try to culture them for constant live food ! I'm pretty sure they don't survive in high water temperature , and it's very hot here in Greece at summer !

This might be the reason for them dying quickly - hot water temperatures! My tanks are pretty warm as well, 24 degree celsius / 75 Fahrenheit. Do you think this will be too hot? My largest "predators" (from the scud perspective) are black molly and the corydoras paleatus fish. I think the guppys will not threaten them. You should also upload a video of your tank, it sounds very nice mate. Greetings from Germany :) 🇩🇪

Haha krass - schön, dass Du auf mein Video gestoßen bist. Bist du professioneller Züchter, oder auch "nur" Hobbyzüchter so wie ich? Können gerne mal Guppys oder Shrimps tauschen ;) Liebe Grüße aus Heilbronn Etienne

@@naturalaquariums76 Nur Hobbyzüchter, aber ich bin bei der Zucht schon sehr selektiv, gerade bei den Guppys. An Neocaridinas hab ich mittleweile den ganzen Regenbogen, und alle Farben sind auch in sehr hoher Qualität mit guten Genen. Dass wir uns ausgerechnet auf die gleichen Spezies spezialisieren, und ich dienen Kanal zufällig durch ein englisches Video gefunden hab ist schon ein krasser Zufall! Grüße aus Leingarten, Adrian

Thank you so much for the feedback on my tanks 🌱😊 I really highly appreciate it! Also, thanks for the suggestions. I was originally searching for scuds / freshwater isopods. Never kept either of them in a larger fish tank w/ tropical fish, so i'm curious to see how the scuds will do. Freshwater isopods are even cooler, because as you say they look and behave pretty much like normal isopods, just underwater. So very interesting to watch. I'll try to add more microfauna over the coming weeks & months. Also, thanks for mentioning Fishtory here, it's a great channel and i also think it's very valuable content.

Cheers mate! Thanks for subscribing to the channel and for clarifying the difference between damselfy nymphs and dragonfly nymphs. In German, both animals have the same name (at least in everyday language), so i assumed it would be the same in English. Greetings from Southern Germany to Texas :)

Cheers Mate! Thanks for taking the time to suggest these species and for providing precise, scientific names. I will add them to my Google Sheet species tracker. I also thought about adding otocinclus to this tank, great algae eaters and stay small. But imho they look a bit boring. I think farlowella & hatchetfish look amazing, but both species get quite large. Greetings from Southern Germany :)

Thanks for sharing your tip regarding dried leaves mate😊🌱 do you also keep scuds in your jars /tanks?

Cheers mate! I would love to see your tanks one day, maybe you could share a TH-cam video as well? Regarding the atzek scuds: I would be very curious to compare both side by side: There should be differences between those and the scuds we have over here in Central Europe /Germany, if they developed on different continents.🙂 Regarding the Egyptian Geese: They are definitely not Canadian geese, since we also have those here in Germany. We actually have quite a lot of American species that are invasive here in Europe: Cormorant, sunfish, Canadian Geese etc. Greetings from Southern Germany and thanks for watching my video :)

I think you are right, in German "damselfies" and "dragonflies" are the same word - "Libellen". So in everyday language we don't distinguish them. That's why i have never even heard the word damselfies before. Yeah i don't want to take that risk of adding them - even my smallest guppy fry should not suffer such a terrible death :O

It is a damselfly, but both damselflies and dragonflies belong to the group known as Odanata. Zygoptera (Damselfly)and Anisoptera (Dragonfly). Damselflies are more slender than the Dragonfly, almost indistinguishable from each other as adults, which is why I suppose the Germans give them the same name. In their larval stage damselfly are distinguishable by the three tail appendages (as shown in your video), on some dragonflies these are barely visible and on others not at all. They make an excellent live food, as do the red midge larvae, as shown and the detritus worms which will undoubtedly be in the resurrection jar as well. My fish go nuts on midge larvae and detritus worms. Midges are a non biting insect that looks similar to a mosquito but has no mouth parts as adults, both the midge and mosquito belong to the Diptera group.

Wow! Thank you for that detailed response! Are you a biologist?

​@@naturalaquariums76ain't the german word for damselfly 'wasserjungfer' or might also be called 'kleinlibelle'? I looked up the translation in google for the english word Damselfly and for the dutch word Waterjuffer. Found those 2 translations .

This is true haha 😂😃 imagine they were our size 😃

They are very diligent indeed! I want to take some shots of them with a magnifying glass 🔍 in future videos. I think if they are stressed a lot by potential predators, this drastically reduces their life span - at least in my experience (not scientifically proven or anything). Additionally, NEOCARIDINA shrimp have a short life span in general. That’s why I like to keep them with as much hiding / grazing space as possible 🌱😇

That makes sense…it’s not fun to be that far down the food chain, poor things. Seeing them magnified would be very interesting. And that kind if stress causes all sorts of health issues in other animals, including humans. I think the old wives tales about reptiles and fish, which made them into simple, unfeeling creatures haven’t helped. They feel, pain, fear, pleasure, etc., and I don’t believe any creature could survive evolution without at least those emotions. It’s 2 AM or nearly so here in Delaware and time for my old bones to sleep.

Thanks buddy, highly appreciate the feedback 😊🙌