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how do i take care of my new little pets?

ok so for my little brothers birthday my cousin got him one of those kits for a pet. kinda like the frogs thing watching the tadpoles turn into frogs. well this one is different the pets are called Triops. in the picture they look like little horseshoe crabs. and idk how to take care of them other than what the instructions say and all it says is how to set up the tank, and what to do with the eggs and basic stuff like that. plz help me!! and it would help to give some experiences on what to expect.

I bought some Triops at Michaels…?

I got a box of triops and and now that the animals in the tank have grown big, half of them look like miniature horseshoe crabs but the other half look like orange sea monkeys! The sea monkeys have been eating the triop food that came with the kit. I’ve had sea monkeys before, and they ate different food, like algae that grew in their tank.
Are there supposed to be sea monkeys in a triop kit?
Do the triops eat sea monkeys?
(The triops are insane–they swim in circles and upside down and hog the all food and ram into the sea monkeys :( )