I want to get some triops for a tank. I’m planning on getting a 10 gallon tank. What filtering, food, substrate, etc, do i need for them. Thanks.
How should I care for triops?
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Dude, i wouldn’t bother going too over board, they only live for like a month. Don’t they come in starter packs anyway, you get all the stuff in the box.
http://www.amazon.com/Triops-Inc-DLX-Deluxe-Kit/dp/B000A6QMTM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1266193468&sr=8-1
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A ten gallon tank is a good idea. In smaller containers, you will get a die off of the young Triops hatchlings until a “comfortable” number are left to occupy the container. By choosing a ten gallon tank, you reduce that die off and increase the chances you will have both sexes present in species that have separate sexes. Not all do. They will lay eggs in a layer of uncoated coral beach sand in a ten gallon tank. It is amazing to watch the female lay about 40 eggs. She rolls them into a ball and then pastes sand grains to the outside until the eggs are totally disguised. You collect the eggs with some sand and let it dry out gradually. Store the eggs dry in the bit of sand at room temperature for at least four months before trying to hatch them. It may help some species of Triops to store the eggs in the refrigerator for a month or two, to make the developing egg think a winter season has passed and it’s spring. At worst it won’t hurt the eggs a bit and it has helped the Triops fancier from losing patience during the long wait before trying to hatch the eggs your own Triops laid. Not all the eggs hatch the first try, and they can be redried and tried again. Perhaps the reason for this is that way in nature a short early rain could use up all the Triops eggs and they would have been extinct millions of years ago. Instead, a few always seem to wait for a second wetting when the rain is more likely to be enough to really fill the vernal pools and let the hatchlings grow to adulthood.
My favorite is Triops cancriformis. It is one of the largest and one that the most people have learned how to succeed getting a permanent population of Triops for their aquarium by getting each generation to lay eggs.
http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/
http://mytriops.com/articles/triops_care.stm
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