Distilled water is water that has had virtually all of its impurities removed through distillation (boiling the water and re-condensing the steam into liquid...
Hi there: Has anyone had experience raising / keeping wild triops -- not from a packet, but from a stream? I caught 4 adults and several smaller creatures that...
I was told that the bottled water needs to be boiled (and then left to cool obvs!) to sterilize it? Is there any truth in this or is it ok just to put straight...
... Is it sold as drinking water? Commercial store bought water with a sealed cap should be sterile already. But I have heard tales of some remote shops...
I was wondering, can Triops Cancriformis, Australiensis, and Longicaudatus live happily in the same tank without much fighting, killing, higher crime rates,...
... a ... You should still follow the instruction in most kits and it should work for you, as for the temperature, mine have survived for a while in water at...
... Put two Triops in the same tank, no matter what size of tank, and if one of the Triops doesn't get out of the way of the other fast enough, it's lunch. ...
... if one of ... it's lunch. I did a little experiment a while ago. I had a single Triops living in about 30 litre tank. She was five weeks old and of course...
My one triop died last night. it had a good run. I think my post about hatching it must have been over a month ago. Measured out just under 1 3/4" (tail not...
... She's now gone :´( at the age of 60 days. I hope she had a good life. Here's a picture of the big Triops first contact with one of her little ones:...
how do you go about hatching the eggs? We have one triop and something like a ghost also in there. The 'ghost' has almost no color and is full size, like the...
I just started my own tank...I already have sea monkeys but I have a few triop questions... They look a bit scary...can they bite??? How often do they shed?? I...
... They can't bite anything as big as your finger. ... It depends on how fast they are growing, or how much do they eat. When 2-3 weeks old, they grow at fast...
... The eggs, or the sand with eggs, must be dried out for at least three weeks. You just put the sand in a bucket and then leave the bucket in a dry place for...
I was wondering, my Triops kit came without a nutrient pack instead it came with a little container filled with detritus and another container with eggs, I was...
Someone in this group has a virus. Please check your computers. I keep getting warnings about the mail coming through this group that there is a virus...
... It appears to be from Don Dasis (dadasis@...) But it doesn't appear to be a virus, rather it full of repeating failed forwarding messages with dodgy...
I've posted something like this friday, but since yahoo is likely getting hammered by folks, it is either delayed or might have been lost. You have seen this...
... thinking about it, it might not have been friday... might have been yesterday or sunday. ... I've turned on full moderation. All posts will have to be...
... Ah. I see. The person has to use Yahoo! Mail and it looks up your cookies (or something) to get your yahoo email address. I see it spreads through the use...
Hi everybody, As you may recall, I wrote earlier about how I rescued some early hatched Triops larvae from being eaten - they were hatching while the eggs were...
My baby triops hatched a few days ago & are doing wonderfully!!! I suck at keeping ANY kind of fishtank normally so sea monkeys & triops are my consolation...
Hello Krystal, Little advice : Don't change water so soon because there is a risk of killing all your babies ! If water is still clean, you can wait until they...
Don't worry, eggs will appear, sometimes they are hard to see. Eggs do not appear systematically after two weeks, but also later after 3 or 4 weeks. Hard to...
Hi all, I would like some suggestions on what others use as far as filters go. What I use now is ok but I'm thinking maybe I can get something better. If you...