Ok soo heres the deal my triops are getting bigger i have got 2 right now and wanting to move them out the hatchery so I can hatch more. im probably going to put them in a 10 gallon sense I have a empty one on hand. on my check list I got sand/decor/plants/lamp/snails is there anything im missing? &&how much am I looking at spending on all this. oh yeahh and can I use regular “lowes” type sand?? thanks(:
All you need is a 10 gallon glass tank with water with no chlorine. A lamp on for 12 hours of the day (any it doesn’t matter) If you add some live plants they will eat them, along with their normal good. You don’t need deco really but it could make them stuck, I’d stick with the plants and sand, and finally you could get a few snails. I’m pretty sure you can use any sand… I would go with aquarium sand just to be safe.
P.S I kept my triops in a 10 gallon tank with a pleco and some snails. They had aquarium sand and some plants. Now I only have my pleco who is now 4 years old in my 70 gallon tank XD
Good luck
I’ve had many triops before.
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A ten gallon tank would be fine. You can use any of the sand, decor, plants, snails, and lights you have on hand. If the Lowes type sand (playground, construction grade) has been cleaned and used in an aquarium before with no problems, you can use it. If you buy fresh, it can be very dirty or contain chemicals. Some of the play sand is coated with a white “paint” that does not hold up well when kept submerged.
Some of the photos on mytriops.com are of our Triops. It contains some good information on keeping and breeding Triops. Some of the other Triops species grow larger and live longer than Triops longicaudatus, the one found in the Triops kits. We have tried most of the species that have appeared for auction on Aquabid.com A nice one to try is T. cancriformis because you can get thousands of eggs from the adults and hatch them out for years to come since the eggs are viable for perhaps fifty years. and it is one of the largest and lives several times longer than T. longicaudatus.
I’ve had many triops before.
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