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i need help with triops emergence?

i accidenly rip out the tea bag of triops egg and but in the water and the i read the instructoin and and it say you have to poke 5 hole in the bag and but it in water do my triops still go to hatch?

I have 2 triops longicaudatus and they both eggs. WHAT DO I DO!!!!!?

The bigger one has one egg sac the smaller one has 2 egg sacs. Ive heard you have to drain the water so the eggs dry, but couldnt i just use my pipette to such the eggs out anddry them there in a seperate container????? Is there any other solutons becuase if i drain the water it would kill my triops. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My 10 Day Old Triops

Here is my one and only triops swimming about looking for some munchies.

My First Triops Day 3-7

You can all watch them grow with me ^^ So today is actually day 8 for them, but in my last video I went from day 1-3 and now I’ve done day 3-7 using the same song! Its amazing thinking that just over a week ago it was a little egg ^^ Squiggles has started to be a lot more active, I’m guessing its just because he/shes growing lol. But its very interesting to watch! ^^ As I said at the end of the video, my smaller triop died, I’m guessing Squiggles killed it, but obviously I’m not certain! I …

My triops digging & laying eggs

His name is Fry and he is 20 days old in this video. He is my only triops and he likes to dig because that’s part of the whole egg laying thing. I’m also not sure if it’s a he or a she or a hermaphrodite. I captured the whole thing with my webcam, and it sure was a pain in the ass to manual focus all the time…