This is the oldest of the new hatchlings. I actually found this one hatched in the tank holding the adult mother of these eggs, so I yanked it out before it became Mama’s Lunch. It has at least a full day’s growth ahead of the other eggs, as its birth is what prompted me to siphon out the eggs and get them dried for storage.
**Watch in high quality** Another video of my triops longitacaudus eating worms. The footage is from quite a while ago but I just havn’t gotten round to editing it. More vids to come.
This was my second trip to this cattle tank to check on this late-season population of triops. It was morning and cool, so I only saw a few triops digging in the shallows.
Triops longicaudatus from Rodeo, New Mexico. These living fossils spend most of the year as dried-up eggs in the desert, and hatch when monsoon rains form large puddles. They grow quickly, eating fairy shrimp (also pictured in video), mosquito larvae, snails, and a variety of aquatic invertebrates. They attain a maximum size of about 4 centimeters before laying eggs as the puddles dry up. These animals have changed little in 70 million years. They swim with their many legs (up to 132 in large individuals) and possess 3 eyes. This species is an ally to humans because it eats Culex mosquitoes, carriers of West Nile Virus.
A video I made of my male triops. These are all long dead lol I’ve just been really lazy and since my WMM was crashing I didn’t bother to edit the clips I got. Sometimes the chances of gettin a male triop can be less than 1 in 100. For some reason I had like if I remeber 13 males altogether out of 30 triops (the rest of em died or were in another tank). Anyway its kinda hard to explain why so just go here 
mytriops.com Just scroll down to the picture where it says he, she it. Theres good info around there.