Ok so I got my pack of triops Thursday. 1/12/12 and they’ve been sitting their since then and I’m a little worried because in my house it gets cold so I made sure that they got a lot of light and heat but the thing is that the lamp heated the water up all the way to 90 degress f and now I’m worried if they’ll hatch I was able to drop the water temperature to 75-80 degrees but I’m still not sure if they’ll still hatch
Hello, I currently have a 10 gallon tank with some sand and a few plants. The only inhabitant right now is a mystery snail (my Triops died so hes the only thing left)
I want to get African Dwarf Frogs, but in order to do this, I want to change my substrate from sand to eco-complete (so I can add more plants and theyll stay healthier)
The 10 gallon tank is the only tank I have, so where should I put the snail while I am cleaning the tank? I have small, containers that I can keep him in for the time being, like small glass containers and such.
But for heat, should I just keep a lamp over the container he is in? Or will the intense light harm the snail?
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I bought this triops kit from a website, and weird things hatched in it. Only one of them appears to be a triops, and about 5 weird shrimp things hatched too. Are they shrimp? They’re actually kind of cute and they do cool flips, so I’m not upset about that packaging mistake. But there’s also this strange, creepy looking thing, that’s very small, white, and a bit translucent, but it’s still visible. I have no idea what it is. It has the body shape of an owl, and it has little black eyes on each side of it’s upper half. It also has what appears to be antlers, shaped like little Ys on its head, and the fan part of the Y is webbed. It doesn’t glide about the water like the others; it sort of hops about in the fishbowl. It kinda looks like a pokemon >:L What is it?
i previously had a triops that layed eggs, so i collected them. i would like to know if i did the correct thing in the next step (this is my question). firstly i dried the triops eggs + sand, then i frozen the sand and eggs in a air tight container for 2 days, then i added the triops to fresh water. i know they still have time to hatch but i was getting worried as all the triops i have had in the past have hatched less than 24 hours later. i can see the triops eggs on the top of the water. they are a light pink colour and a bit larger than the sand
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I got a Smythsonian science kit that hatches triops, but only one hatched. It’s been nice and big and healthy, for about a month. But today I noticed something wicked weird; it has this giant blob of a red thing on its head! It almost looks like the shell has risen up and filled with blood or something. It’s still alive, but its just barely crawling across the floor of the tank. What the heck is it?? Does it mean its dying, or maybe does it relate to breeding or something?