Life On A Leaf 

I've been looking for years for a channel like this. How many times I searched "freshwater biology" "freshwater ecosystems" "freshwater biology documentary" etc.... and never found this channel until now. Crazy. Thanks so much for making these I couldnt be happier to watch them

Dave…you just made my day. I have a passionate interest in microscopic life forms and the life and death struggles they experience just beyond our perception. Nature has so much more going on than we can see, and life finds a way. Thank you so much for focusing on these fascinating tiny creatures so we can see how they go about the business of life. One wonders just how far the chain extends, getting smaller and smaller, yet still eating, mating, and being eaten. Entire worlds just out of sight. I once saw a kind of flea or louse living on a mosquito…and it made me wonder. There were hunters and hunted, and small beings mating in the moisture on a decaying leaf. Turning the compost has never been the same after that.🖤🇨🇦

Those seed shrimp sound like amazing little guys.

They are great food for my fish.

I was excited to find some larger seed shrimp that came in on plants I bought from someone's aquarium. Seed shrimp I have had were always light colored and small, but these new ones are longer, larger and darker. I'm expanding their colony in a large jar of greenwater with added java moss and mulberry leaf crumbles and excited to get to add them to some of my aquariums. Amazed to learn some would make it safely through a fish's digestive tract! I'm on a "The Dave" watching spree today:)

See them in most of my tanks. Awesome footage The Dave. Thanks for sharing!

Hello Dave! Another great video :) I promoted your video in Portugal and it had an excellent reception. Great job, I loved the detail. Keep up the excellent work.

I've just found your channel by way of the amano shrimp video. What a treasure trove! I am a freshwater ecologist by trade and aquarist by hobby. I appreciate the level of detail which means that I learn a few things, but it can be enjoyed by anyone with an interest and no background on the subject. That is so often not the case with TV shows which are invariably dumbed down. Great narration, content and of course photography. You have a new fan and subscriber!

You did it Dave! This is AMAZING!!!

Excellent once again. Thanks 🙏

I was wondering if you had a video on seed shrimp. I have them everywhere. I love them. Thanks The Dave.👍

I took a paleontology course my most recent year of college, got to work with a lot of Ostracod fossils and it’s really refreshing to see living specimens.

Today I saw this video, what a beautiful way to spend some time

Great video…Thanks!

Seed shrimp is life

Another impressive video, fascinating and beautiful.

I needed your channel/content sooner in my life... Excellent video

Awesome footage.

Beautiful. I used to have some seed shrimp in a jar that sported a blue-green coloration. Wish I still had them. Have you ever heard of clam shrimps? I think you would be interested in them

I have hydras in my aquarium, they are very nice ;)

Very interesting, love the magnification. Brings me back when we looked at pond water through a microscope in school. Those terms flagellum? The Hydra, cilia,. Cool to learn the hydra never dies. Great video, thanks Dave!

Nice video. But I have this problem with seed shrimp in my shrimp tank. There are so many of them, even when I try to siphon their numbers don't seem to decrease. My shrimps aren't thriving and no baby shrimp seems to grow. I think the seed shrimps eat baby shrimps when they molt. Is that possible?

WOW! GREAT VIDEO! VERY EDUCATIONAL!

Can you elaborate on hydras and have you ever submitted your work to a public education system or school educational programs? I think you were pretty great and it creeps me out now when I look at my tanks and I think I see the stuff you’re talking about thanks a lot laugh out loud can you do a video on hydros? And what kind of a lens are you using a micro lens to film this type of work fantastic love it

I love all your videos! 😄

Another great video. Keep ‘em coming

Good job as always

Love the videos. It's always refreshing to find someone with the same viewpoint about adding chemicals to your aquarium.

Wow amazing

They are all strange creatures. 🔬🗒📄📃🖋✏☕

Have you heard of a dusky spinefoot/Siganus luridus?

Bigfin reef squid ( Sepioteuthis lessoniana)

If the yellow perch had an ocean counterpart, it would be a clownfish.

I enjoyed this very interesting video. I'll have to look around in my fish tank. It's heavily planted, 4 year old tank and there has to be unseen critters thriving in there! This is fun. Thanks !

Someday, you should do a video about crabs.

cool

Very interesting great information.

Always wanted a hydra in my aquarium, they never came. I did have Damselfly larvae, and knowing they are not as dangerous as dragon larvae I decided to leave them be. My shrimp population did not change a bit, they had plenty of moss to hide in. Platys still bred like mad. THe Damsel larvae were very pale, so I suspect they were eating planaria and other insects. I never saw them after they grew older so I wonder if the fish got them in the end! Great video and I am now tempted to start my aquarium up again!

I can't seem to grow plants. They always get a film growing on them. Any suggestion? Something that will keep them clean? Water parameters are all in the good range. I have goods lights, sponge filters, light bio load and I dose API plant food once a month.

Have you heard of a possum shrimp?

Even leaves are unique underwater ecosystem. All organisms live their lives , hydra is most mysterious. Practically immortal population, thanks to stem cells should be much more investigated - it can carry and tell us information from deep past when life forms begins... Hydra had lived there ....

This is cool! This is great! This is awesome!

Do we ever feel hydra stings?

Simply superb. dev sir how to culture infosuria in simple way ?

Great video. What setup do you use to film?

Do these count as zooplankton?

What camera are you using to take these videos? Fantastic resolution...

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Hydra seem a horrible creature.

cool