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Ok, my boyfriend claims that my triops died because I was trying to keep them throughout the winter & I also don’t have a lamp that gives off enough heat (I also don’t know what kind of lamp to get to heat up my triops aquarium). They say they like room temperature around 70 degrees F. Well, my room probably dropped to around 60 degrees F while I was out of the house or possibly even lower. I turn off the heat in my room whenever I leave to conserve energy, but I am also the type of person that doesn’t like to be too warm, so sometimes I would keep the heat turned off all the time, yet I still kept a light on my trips (but I guess it doesn’t give off a lot of heat, but I think it was meant to give off light more than heat anyway). I also had a tropica fern in their tank that they liked to munch on a lot. The fern came snail free, but could it be the fact that it was a tropica fern? It gave off an odd odor but you couldn’t smell it unless you got up close to the tank, even so it wasn’t an unbearable smell, it just smelled a little weird, but I thought it was because I wasn’t used to underwater plants. I fed my triops daily with the use of the tropica fern as an extra food source because it is okay for triops to eat aquatic plants but I’m not sure if the tropica fern was very good for them considering it smelled a little weird. My triops only lived for 2 weeks & I tried a second batch & they still died but the first batch I had without the fern. Do you think it was the temperature that effected them & they would do better in the summer time when my room is always warm?