Copepods: The Diatom-Devouring King of Plankton
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Scientists have observed some copepods eating over 300,000 diatoms in a single day!
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I'm disappointed that there is no mention of Sheldon J. Plankton, the beloved antagonist in Spongebob Squarepants who happens to be a copepod.
Oh...OHHHH! Now that I rewatch the video with that in mind, I can totally see his design elements in the long antennae one in it
sheldon is also the king of copium :)
All hail Plankton! ALL HAIL PLANKTON
@@melskunk
And the one single red eye.
@@DinnerForkTongue and the tiny paired front limbs, like his little arms!
Can't wait to see the seethepods and the maldpods
Lol
Best joke ever
What about the Dilatepods
i hate and love this comment at the same time
... i don't get it
Some tiny copepods even live in trees in jungles, they move between water pockets (like the pools in bromeliads) by moving through the film of water on plants when they're wet after it rains. (they'd probably end up drying out partway through trips if jungle rainfall wasn't so absurd)
How do they end up higher up in trees?
@@sdmitch16 They're small enough to swim up the films of water on the bark when its wet, and/or can hide away in cracks where water tends to stick a little. No real idea how they move from tree to tree though.
(maybe they hitchike on other critters for a bit, but haven't heard anything about that)
This species has been incredibly helpful in countless research areas, from studying the genetics of mitochondrial DNA to studying the effects of oxygen levels on sizes of organisms. Great video, as always! 👍💕
Omg like halfway through I realized this dude is what Plankton from spongebob was based on and I feel like an idiot for not realizing it earlier
Being a human is so stressful that sometimes I wish to be just a single celled organism. I always emerse myself in your videos, pretending I am in the microcosmos. This is the closest I can get to freedom from the stresses of reality. Thanks 👍
Your'e assuming they don't feel stress.......and they are not single celled organisms, they are tiny, tiny but multi'cellular.
@@1414141x ok 👍
technically, you can just walk away from a stressful life. If you give up on having expectations and wants, you can just walk away from everything and become homeless but low stress. Some young people in china are doing something called "laying flat", where they subsist on an income of $31 dollars a month, and just, not do anything and try to be stress free. I wouldn't be able to do something like that though...
So what you are saying is that these videos help you cope?
I would rather spectate as myself of a whole team of amazing cells and a ecosystem of creatures than be a copepod or anything else frantically running or running towards food with a lifespan of a few months at most..
So quite glad to be who(s) I am. But yes watching the microcosmos and wanting to immerse myself it in it is extremely relaxing.. from "afar"
A whole video on Copepods and not one Spongebob reference or joke. I'm impressed! My Spongebob-obsessed son, not so much :P
Indeed
Ah yes, the Copepod. The main ingredient for manufacturing Copium. Where would the Cope industry be without this little guy?
Seethe dilate
They couldn't cope with that
We'd only have Podium, so we'd just be able to showcase it
when the copepods got into the larger water drop it felt like YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I was rootin' them on...
This channel is so immersive and therapeutic almost. It's really one of a kind. Thank you for the free Skillshare trial as well!
I am outright addicted to this channels uploads!
Dammit the soothing calming voice the extremely interesting facts and UberHD view!
He's trying to steal the crabby patty formula!
Of course he's the king of plankton, He went to collage.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR SO LONG! In my own microscopy samples I have a TON of copepods, and though I’ve studied them a lot on my own, I am so glad you guys have discussed my favorite extremely common microorganism
So weird how copepods, multicellulars animals comprised of hundreds or more cells, are not all that much bigger than some of the protists shown on this channel.
Plank tong out here tryna steal the crabby patty
Copepod lookin' like it about to steal the secret Krabby Patty formula
Yes, because Shaldon J. Plankton is actually a copepod, look it up.
20,000 species of Copepods. Amazing. This micro imagery is really beautiful and the narration is always very informative.
I keep copopods in my aquarium full of pond-creatures, and they're fun to watch at the naked-eye level as well. I think of them as Flying Dots, flying through the water at crazy-high speeds for their size. I'm a huge fan of these guys!
Watch out for those copepods. They'll try to steal your recipe for your crabby patty.
🤯 Literally Plankton
So that's what they're called. I got a sample of one that grew very big. Like 2-5mm large
I thought copepods only lived in Mystery Flesh Pit National Park :D
If you lean your ear closer, you can faintly hear at least one of the copepods shouting "I WENT TO COLLEGE!!"
I had a microscope in high school. Seeing these videos makes me interested in getting one agan.
Question: Most non-microscopic animals make sounds. Do any of these tiny creatures have that ability?
Essentially no. They might incidentally make tiny sounds by moving around and such, but they don't have an organelle or any other structure dedicated to making noise, especially not in the way us at our scale do.
That is unless you consider the movements in the water sounds, which you arguably could. In which case almost all of them do make sounds, and a good many of them can detect and react to them.
Reminds me of plankton off of spongebob 😂
The copepod larva!! I had a bunch of those about a month ago and could not figure out what they were! yay, i love learning!!
Only James can make a copepod tail flip look so dreamy and magical as a Disney mermaid’s 😆
These little guys are so critical to everything, that we even need them in reef tanks to keep the system in check. Without them all sorts of gnarly things can happen and your tank then crashes. Some people even go so far as to set up a refugium in their sump to remove waste and grow pods, especially with the use of macro algaes.
4:06 I was so afraid you guys were gonna cut away before we got closure on this struggle
Great video! They all are, of course, but I'm more familiar with the parasitic varieties (especially that one that attaches itself to the eyes of Greenland sharks... yeah, it's as unsettling as it sounds) so getting a look at more kinds was very illuminating! I had no idea there were so many species. I always learn such cool things on this channel.
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diatomivore :)
delicious crunchy diatoms
I'll have a plate of the semi-icosahedral ones please, and a couple of cubes for afterwards.
Wow Spongebob wasn't so far of with its cartoony representation of plankton
Finally... Copepods!! These animals, especially the Harpacticoids copepods, live also between leafs, mosses, soil.
*tune '2 sparrows in a hurricane'
Like two copepods in a vast body of water
in response to the tinder joke, they still find each other! awww
I love copepods and diatoms. Culturing them is free, low-effort and feeds a lot of the critters in my aquariums.
All Hail Plankton
Thank you for this amazing video!
I have many copepods living in my fish aquarium and ciliate(loxophyllum I think) that congregate on the glass walls. It’s fascinating!
what is that adorable green ball that shows up at 3:18 and can I learn more about it please?
it's Volvox, green algae that lives in fresh water, maybe rare to catch.. I always wanted to catch it :D
I love how copepods look like transparent aquatic silverfish with comical antennae.
How does a copepod digest the glass shell of a diatom? It seems like that would be hard to digest.
I'm always amazed to see microbes STUFFED full of diatoms, looking like the glass just has to poke right out of them...and yet amazingly doesn't. How does that work? I mean...those things are sharp, as anyone who has used them for pest control knows! They are pretty even inside other critters tho :)
So the copepod in the room .... how many of these do I swallow a year? The horror, the horror.
F is for fire- that burns down the whole town
U- is for uranium
Bomb
N- is for No survivors!
Plankton! That's not what fun is all about.
100% of Tinder profiles are about 60% water.
It's Kingdom seemed to be quite clearly bound by the edge of that waterdroplet though.
Oooooh. That’s why they are called cyclops. That always made me a bit confused because the food you get from the pet store just look like tiny dots. I was wondering what Greek myth had to do with it.
Damn I didn’t know Sheldon’s family had a long-living royal dynasty
He has a large family, that's for sure
They look like they're about to steal your secret fermeler
FYI: I've been subscribed to your channel since the beginning and I haven't received any notices about new videos for six months.
I'm surprised there wasn't a comparison to how rotifers eat. It sounds like the same feeding mechanism, but I would've liked some details
Cool video. I am about to start culturing my own copepods. To feed my fish and keep my tank clean
This explains why I'm suddenly seeing a lot of copepods in my aquarium - after my fish died of some unknown illness I treated the whole tank with an antibiotic, hoping to kill off whatever it was that killed my fish under the assumption it was some kind of bacterial infection. Of course this also messed with my biological filter and so I've been seeing some diatoms again, which I never get anymore in a tank that's been established for close to two years. So I'm getting more copepods because there's more diatoms in the tank to sustain a larger population! I saw them skittering around on the glass and was uncertain what they were, all my various googling eventually led me here! I'm very happy to let them eat up all my diatoms.
Not only fascinating, but learning how to pronounce some of the crazy names of the organisms…
Looking at this creature for 2 seconds and I knew this had to be the inspiration for "Plankton" from "Spongebob," and what do you know, Hillenburg was very exacting that Plankton is a copepod.
So this is where plankton ended up.
I have an ecosphere I made from a jar and some sand and algae I got from the beach and it's full of copepods! They're wonderfully delightful creatures
I know they aren't exactly the same, but I raise daphnia to feed my fish, and they are so cute. I find myself watching the daphnia as much as I watch my fish. Love the little buggers.
You guys might be interested in the "Artificial Life Environment (ALiEn)" project, really cool simulation software which partially imitates the microcosmos
I think this is one of the most important channels here.
4:04 this gave me a "racing water droplets in a car" vibes
These are the best watch while stoned
I find these so often. They are pretty cool to view 👍🏾
I found a species of Copepods in my ocean samples on day..It looked quite interesting but it was being eaten.
Ooooh King OF Plankton. I thought King Plankton...like in the SpongeBob movie.
My bed is my Cope Pod
7:36 the irony 😂
Their talent: Stealing a Krabby Patty Formula from a crab
The person who manages to reliably breed them in captivity will be set for life.
+New Message Free Oxygen for all! Btw Cope pods is a delightful name
Its been done. They are a critical food in the Salt Water Aquarium trade and are starting to make inroads to the fresh water one.
You can google how to form colonies.
That's the villain from SpongeBob Square Pants.!
It's strange that you mention how many diatoms copepods eat in a day, yet don't show that happening. I mean, given the consumption numbers, you'd think videos of copepods NOT eating diatoms would be exceedingly rare :) But I must say, as a Cajun, this video made me hungry. Copepods look (and probably taste) much like shrimp, my absolute favorite food and, when shown much magnified on my monitor, were about the same size as the shrimp I love so much. Time to put on my white boots.
I was listening to this, and thought to myself: man, he sounds just like Hank green. Until I had the realization
This has become one of my favorite channels!
digging a tunnel though the air :)
In some scenes they very much reminded me of silverfish, though those are insects.
would it be possible to include the microscopy technique used for each clip in the corner in future videos? i'd be interesred to know which ones yield each bit of footage
Juvenile copepods are colloquially know as nauplii amongst scientists :)
isn't this the coolest channel on TH-cam ??!
I've stood here before inside the microscope lens
With the world turning circles running round my membrane
I guess I've always hoped you could break this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of plankton
Hey, I just got this ad for a $80,000 microscope. Not quite the target audience for that big boy, but it was cool to see. Like, that's like rich person ads, lol. Good change of pace from the usual ads, anyway :p
Fascinating, thank you for the information!
2:07 was that a volvox colony casually floating by???
Copepods live in nearly every aquarium. In fact, I was looking at a copepod in my aquarium while watching this video 😂
Research suggests they also try to dominate patty restaurants very often.
A cool little organism that might just steal the Krabby Patty formula
Do you know if any of the copepods diet consist of Krabby patty?
Damn.... the microscope magnifying power in killing
Dumb question, can microbes get high??? Like if I make canabis infused yogert, would the bactierus would be blasted out othere nuculus?
The copepod at 5:16 is sped up 400%?! Lol...ok. Is it moving backwards at real speed?
These videos make me hungry, thanks science! 😂❤ God I wish I could filter feed! 🤣
If you'd uploaded this a week earlier I could have used this in my Ecology finals
Hear me, Krabs!
I really think we should start farming micro animals and using them as food I mean it's better than eating bugs
Cool video dude! I enjoyed it!
Love One Another God Bless Everyone
floating around at the whims of the ocean currents hoping to bump something to eat or mate with.... sounds like my younger days.
They look like microscopic shrimps.
3:00 mathematically perfect 3D spinning globe thing proceeds to dance around the screen without inviting so much as a single comment
I want to know what that was too, it looked pretty amazing
Volvox algae
No boundary unless all three are trapped in that little tiny tube like at the end there. :)
That's a water drop