After fertilization and excretion, the shrimp will sink to the bottom of the pool, and will not develop immediately, but will enter a dormant state. These eggs and water bear worms know each other. When conditions are bad, they hibernate and survive. When the pool dries up in spring, resting eggs can resist dryness, and after summer, it can continue to survive in a pool full of mud.
As long as there are suitable conditions, they will seize the opportunity to hatch, and the "suitable conditions" here are not clearly set. It may be spring or autumn. As long as most levels of sunlight, oxygen and osmotic pressure are met, it can grow and develop.
In fact, the fairy shrimp can't do this, and life forces it! Fairy shrimp, similar to krill, is one of the food sources of other predators, and almost all carnivorous insects and mammals are their natural enemies. In order to avoid extinction, they remembered this hedging strategy. In addition, the hatching of these eggs is also strategic, not all eggs will be hatched, but batch by batch to avoid being swallowed up after birth. These dormant fairy shrimp eggs can survive for more than a hundred years at most, which is as good as the dormancy of water bears.
However, although the eggs of Xianxia live for a long time, the survival time of Xianxia is short. After hatching for one to two weeks, the fairy shrimp will undergo several peeling and develop into a complete adult with 1 1 pairs of feathered legs. Then mating and spawning, like Xia Chan, wait for decades, just to blossom once and for all.