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What can live in distilled water (deionized water) ?

Posted on December 6, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

I have a small aquarium with some triops langicaudatis and some artemia. It contains around 10-12 liters of distilled water ( mixed with deionized water, if the two types of water are not the same ).
They are one and a half week old, so I guess the habitat is OK.

My question :
I would like to put another animal or some plants inside the aquarium : an animal would be nice because it would make everything more interesting, the plants may provide more oxigen for the triops and the artemias. Which animals can live in that water? And which plants?

My first ideas:

Gold Apple Snail
Daphnia
Some kind of shellfish or crabs

And for the plants :
Elodea and amazon sword plant

What can you suggest?

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How long does it take for Triops to hatch?

Posted on July 10, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

I got some triops from a kit and it says that it takes 18-48 hours for them to hatch. It’s already been one day and nothing changed ? Whats wrong? Do I need to wait some more? Oh and it said to use spring water or distilled water so I used purified water (like you put it in the brita filter) Is it okay to use that kind of water ? Besides that I followed all the directions.
BTW it was from a Triassic Triops DLX kit.

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can i use rain water for TRIOPS plz help ive tried so hard?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by admin| 9 Comments

i have heard rumers that u can use rain water insted of distilled water to hatch triops

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Has anyone had Triops before?

Posted on May 15, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

I got a Triops kit. I did everything it said: Pour distilled water in the aquarium…pour the eggs and stuff into the aquarium ect…

It didn’t say anything about stirring it or anything. I am not suppose to right? Everything suppose to float at the top, right? All the contents are afloat. It has been more than one day and it said that is as long as it takes. So, am I doing something wrong? I am giving it plenty of light as well. This is my second time trying to hatch them! Before I had them in there for days and days and nothing happen. What’s the deal?

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My triops need good help?

Posted on December 31, 2009 by admin| 2 Comments

hi i bought triops from marshalls and found that i had to put the eggs in distilled water and guess what i dont have any! so i put tap water and waited for 5 days and then guess what MILLIONS OF TRIOPS not just 6 and more right now
and i looked online and it says tap water dont use and i thought its either my sink is clean and purified or is it tap water thats magical

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