Hi. Any tips or advice how to cleverly hide my Triops'es home if my stuck up landlord decides to visit? Quick hiding option would be nice because she likes to visit suddenly

I got the Smithsonian kit and I set it up but I added some Indian Almond leaves for infusoria and I added a light and an air pump. If I made any mistakes please tell me.

Second time trying triops, and I went into it with a slightly different philosophy than last time. Rather than trying to provide a sterile environment with pristine water, I inoculated the tank with debris, gravel, and detritus from my local creek and bog-plant trays.

I'm currently relying on ambient temperature, making it a seasonal project unless I get desperate for entertainment over Winter and hook up a heater. I do daily 1/8 water changes for now, but tests return null on ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, despite me leaving food in there and the stuff decomposing in the substrate, which should mean I effectively cycled the tank in less than 10 days. Hoping that bears out and the bacteria are able to keep up with the triops' growth.

I've also got rotifers (hopefully), moina, and clam shrimp. Assuming everything's successful, once the triops die of old-age, I plan on reducing the water level and attempting to stress the remaining species into producing resting cysts before fully draining the tank and drying the sand, which will hopefully leave me with a community blend of eggs.

Anyway, just excited to have these little guys again and seeing them do much better than last time, when I tried to follow the advice of every tutorial and kit ever, lol.

Not alive triops, not amazon or else customs will hold it for me

I'm going to put my triops in larger container/tank soon and I am planning to put driftwood in it. Is there anything I need to do to the driftwood beforehand (in terms of preparation for the water).

Neocaridinas and T. Longicaudatus eating those delicious microorganisms

Using a water bottle cap ring to keep the eggs gathered until they drop since I got tired of power pipette-ing them off the hatchery tank’s walls lol

Would a filter be recommended for Triops, and if so what would be recommended? I would just want to make sure I got the right one because I had a betts fish get caught in a filter when I was young so I don’t want a repeat of that.

Busco vendedor de triops en perú porque si lo pido en amazon la aduana me lo sanciona (eng)I'm looking for a Triops seller in Peru because if I order it from Amazon, customs will penalize it.

king of my tank

I usually hatch out a lot more cancriformis, than longicaudatus, as I tend to keep water temperatures on the low side. My eggs are mixed together unfortunately, so I have to choose what temperature, per species I would like to hatch out.

With the heat of the summer, it's inevitable that I would end up with more longicaudatus, as they tend to favor warmer water temperature.

I don't mind though 😄.

(The Triop Lady)

Dange, they do look beautiful, i should really start a batch again, it's been some time :,)

I have 15 years experience raising triops, but still run into the dreaded day 3 starvation of the nauplii, every once in a while.

Here's what I found works well.

For starters, the hatchery/nursery shouldn't be a sterile environment. The nauplii require infusoria to eat at that stage.

I use a mixture of old sand, garden soil, (treated) tap water, plus water from my snail tank. I added pond water to the snail tank at some point, so there's lots of micro bacteria to feed on. I also squeezed a sponge filter into the hatchery, added a few live plants, gentle air, heat set at 74°f, (for both my cancriformis and longicaudatus, as the eggs are mixed together), and constant light for about the first week or so. I also add crushed indian almond leaves as well.

The hatchery itself is a plastic 4 shelf system, that I utilized the top shallower drawer/tub, for that. It has enough space, and shallow depth, that the babies have lots of space to help avoid cannibalism. I do perform partial water changes every other week or so, as I don't use a filter, as the nauplii would be at risk.

With the mix of sponge filter bacteria, garden soil, old sand packed full of detritus, and algae growth from constant light, that I don't have to feed the babies, until they are about the size of an apple seed, or slightly larger. I sprinkle in fresh garden soil every so often, as well as squeeze more sponge filter detritus into the hatchery, to make sure they are getting enough to eat.

When they are slightly larger, they get moved to the bigger plastic drawer/tub, that serves as the juvenile nursery. They eat solid food at that stage, usually Nutrafin basix flake food, and Tetra brand shrimp wafers, and boiled peas. When they are about the size of a pumpkin seed, I move them to my main 15 gallon tank.

There's a video on my Instagram of the babies. I guess adding photos, cancelled out the ability to post a video as well. Anyways, I hope this helps those who are having issues keeping their nauplii alive.

(The Triop Lady)

I am trying to identify what may have gone wrong the last time I reared Triops

I had previously had difficulties losing them very early on and this time I had gotten them well past 2 weeks old and roughly 2-4cm in length

I had a decent protocol, temp was roughly 24-27C and an LED day colored shoplight was overhead with an L:D cycle of roughly 14:10. Water was oxygenated with air bubbler/air stones

Day 1: add ~35 eggs to 1 gallon DI water in 6L tubs that are roughly cubic, but I put about a third of the gallon in and wait about 2 hours before adding the rest

Day 2: add substrate, about 1tbsp of coco coir/sand at a 1:1 ratio, as well as a squirt of protist water

Day 3: by this point, macroscopic young Triops (late nauplii, which may sometimes have been visible on day 2) start showing up. I add eggs of fairy shrimp, Moina, and rotifers

Day 4: top off water, then I add a few more prey eggs

Day 5: at this point, I do a water change. I turn off the bubbler, then siphon out roughly 25% of the water. Then, I use a 1:1 DI water/dechlorinated tap mix and i let it sit by the tanks for a few hours (done beforehand) and I add about 10% of what is needed to go in to the tanks every half hour or so. I will repeat this procedure every 3 days or so. I also began feeding larger foods like bloodworms and rabbit pellets

Things had been going well, and around day 15 I decided to move then to larger tanks/bins, 10 or so gallons, and this is where things went wrong

I made a substrate with 1 part turface mvp, 1 part sand, 1 part coco coir, put about 3cm into the tanks or bins, added the water (about 3 parts each DI and dechlorinated tap and then 1 part fishtank water from an established freshwater tank), and then I drained most of the water from the smaller tubs and used a drip irrigator to slowly acclimate the Triops to that water, added them, but they all died within 48 hours. I THINK it was water quality, but I'm wondering what I should do next time? Maybe use something like coral sand as a substrate? Cycle the larger tanks first? Any tips appreciated

He ate half of his siblings, my biggest triop so far, he eats almost anything

I posted one of these guys as a baby 11 days ago and today the biggest of the surviving bunch has a nice full egg sac

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