Triops in freshwater community tank

This is my freshwater tank with 15 various small tetras, 2 dwarf african frogs named Froogle(the bigger one) and Ribbet, 2 young bristlenoses named Google (the bigger one) and Yahoo, few zebra snails one apple snail and not so long ago 2 triops joined the playground when they were 2 weeks old and they love it ever since (they’ve been raised in the nursery inside the aquarium before their 2 weeks birthday) Fish don’t seem to mind them. They do a lot of weird things like riding the snails (and …

5 Responses to Triops in freshwater community tank

  1. nice setup! how long have the triops been in there? I tried to do this myself but it killed injured neon tetra, i looked and found him eating it

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  2. Triops have been hatched in a nursery/hatchery in the tank and once they were around 6 weeks old we’ve let them out with the rest of the fish. We had two and one died at he age of 10 weeks and the other at 13 weeks They never seem to bother tetras or any other fish in the tank at all and just were scavenging around for food. I was more concerned on frogs eating them but no such thing happened. I’m upgradin tank at the moment and might try triops in a community tank again – they were quite fun.

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  3. worshipshrimp

    where did you get the frog from

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  4. from local aquatic shop. They are african dwarf frogs and they are lovely. Sometimes they sing. And male manages to grab on female a lot recently so there are plenty of scattered eggs around

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  5. so do they have gills my local aquatic shop just closed down :’(

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