Branchipus cf. cotesi, fresh water fairy shrimp!

[Xema]

Lastly I am enjoy so much with these little guys from seasonal pools near to me. They are beautiful on colours and behaviour.
I leave you some pictures.

Some shots from up side with white background.

Female



Male


Into the tank




The nano-pool.

[dxiong5]

Nice pictures as always Xema. You collected these from the wild?
If these are similar to Thai Fairy Shrimp, do they hatch like brine shrimp?

Thanks for sharing!

[Gabs]

Very nice and interesting pictures.

Here in Malta we have Branchipus schaefferi.

Due to the loss of habitat and to the very limited number of vernal pools they have become very rare

Any other inverts in the pools?

This is a link to a visit at a local vernal pool where on can find some pictures of Branchipus schaefferi (fairy shrimp), Cyzicus tetracerus (clam shromp) and Triops cranciformis (tadpole shrimp)







http://maltawildplants.com/forum/vie...c34cb78405e750

[Xema]

I find very interesting the life style of Concostraca -clam shrimps-. There we can find some kind of giant copepods.

[MyShrimps]

Hi Xema,

nice photos as always.
I, too, kept two different species of fresh water fairy shrimps.
They are very interesting creatures and I could spend hours watching them. But unfortunately they only have a very short life spawn and their eggs only hatch after they have been dried. At least the eggs of the two species that I kept, didn't hatch if they stayed in water. They had to go through a dry period to be able to hatch. That makes the whole thing a bit difficult.
What about your species? Do their eggs hatch in your tank or do you have to dry them, too?

Bye,

Peter

[Xema]

Really I am not sure, I am still studying that, But that seasonal pool stay full of water from september/october to may or june, and as I know all the time with water there are lots of fairy shrimps. That means they live the whole time with water, or there are few generation along the time the pool stays full of water.

[silane]

Very nice and interesting pictures.

Here in Malta we have Branchipus schaefferi.

Due to the loss of habitat and to the very limited number of vernal pools they have become very rare

Any other inverts in the pools?

This is a link to a visit at a local vernal pool where on can find some pictures of Branchipus schaefferi (fairy shrimp), Cyzicus tetracerus (clam shromp) and Triops cranciformis (tadpole shrimp)



http://maltawildplants.com/forum/vie...c34cb78405e750

What plants are those, they look extremely small when compare to the triop. Or the triop is giant?

[Xema]

[dkk08]

they're so interesting, they look like mini horseshoe crab, what are their requirements like? Any chance of shipping them here?

[Gabs]

What a sharp eye Silane

The plant is Elatine gussonei, a beautifil plant that grows in some of the Maltese rocky vernal pools.

This cute little plant is very rare since these pools are extreamly few. Its leaves are even smaller than those of Hemiantus Callitrichoides.


Size comparison between E. gussonei (smaller) and G. elatinoides (larger).


Close-up of E. gussonei in an aquarium.


Elatine gussonei eventually forms a thick green carpet.


A container holding Elatine, Crassula and Triglochin, growing on house roof.

Elatine gussonei looks much like Glossostigma elatinoides (note the latter’s specific epithet) but is much smaller, with leaves less than 1/10th the area of the full-sized Glossostigma.

Stefan Mifsud

http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/elatine.html
http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/elatine_flora.html
http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/elatine_aquascape.html

The article was written by a big friend of mine who introduced me to this species of aquatic plant. It's a very interesting article and I'm sure you will find enough information regarding this remarcable cutie.

I will open a new thred where I will post several pictures of elatine gussonei.