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There are a number of triops specific foods sold by people who sell eggs, but you are by no means limited to that. They can and will eat any organic matter in the pool with them that they can fit in their mouths. The number one food for feeding triops in the lab is fish flakes. Basically, any fish food, flake or pellet, floating or sinking, will make a good staple for feeding triops.
Additionally, you can also feed them tubifex worms, daphnia, brine shrimp, the fruit fly that just landed on your desk, bits of romaine lettuce, mosquito larvae, small bits of dried dog/cat food, and so on. They don’t need to eat live food, so don’t feel you have to throw little screaming daphnia to the triops (but it is fun).
Fresh vegetables pieces make a good food source that doesn’t decay quickly or promote bacteria growth – just be sure to wash them thoroughly and/or peel off the outside layer if there’s any chance of pesticides. Plants in their tank provide for veggie snacks anytime they’re hungry and there’s nothing more convenient around.
Triops need to be fed at least twice a day and preferably more often, particularly as they get larger. You’ll have to gauge exactly how much to feed based upon how often you can feed them and how much uneaten food is left after a few hours. You don’t want uneaten food accumulating and rotting in the tank, but you don’t want starving triops either. It’s been my experience they do a good job of letting you know when they’re hungry, so don’t worry too much and pay attention.
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When they are first born, they are tiny and won’t eat much. I think the instructions say you are to crush the pellets and only feed them a wee little bit. As they get bigger, of course, you feed them a bit more crushed food. Since they only live a few months, you should not run out of food. Triops will eat any meaty thing they can grab including other swimming shrimp (and smaller triops). You can feed them flake fish food as long as the label says there is meat stuff in there.
Wikepedia and 26 years of keeping and spawning many different species of tropical fish and cichlids. 25 tanks up and running at present (partial water changes done every week to 10 days). Mostly cichlids and scavengers right now with 5 tanks devoted to various freshwater crustaceans. I have worked in both the retail and wholesale tropical fish business.
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visit this site, it has soooooo many thing they can eat.
http://mytriops.com/articles/triops_food_recipes.stm
Wikepedia and 26 years of keeping and spawning many different species of tropical fish and cichlids. 25 tanks up and running at present (partial water changes done every week to 10 days). Mostly cichlids and scavengers right now with 5 tanks devoted to various freshwater crustaceans. I have worked in both the retail and wholesale tropical fish business.
The Greatest Enemy of Truth is not the deliberate lie; Rather it is all those things we know to be true…that are not.
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