Long-term Video Tracking of Cohoused Aquatic Animals: A Case Study of the Daily Locomotor Activity of the Norway Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus)

This protocol allows automation of the tracking of multiple animals. Using a simple label to identify each animal an ID analysis tool to detect the tags. This protocol significantly reduces the number of hours needed to analyze the video recordings using leskey data.

to estimate more accurate completions from the experimental studies. Animals in other environments that can be tagged in similar fashion can be tracked with similar protocols providing application in chronobiology, ecology, viral research or neuroscience. We have provided the hardware design and open source programming language and provide a model we recommend users adopt in the protocols to learn Python programming language.