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My Triops – The Journal http://triopsan.jottit.com/
Introduction
Since maybe a year I knew about these little creatures called Triops. I found them pretty interesting, but also a waste of money and time. Not so long ago I happened to have some money left over and decided to do something interesting with it. Since I was wondering what to add to my aquarium with my goldfish, the answer was easy: get myself some Triops :)

Getting and preparing everything.
Triops
I got my Triops eggs from www.triops.co.uk since they also shipped to Europe, and it happened to be the first shop I encountered during my Google. You get 4 to 10 eggs in detritus with some extra small shrimps, which both will serve as food. Also included are detailed instructions. I’ll only use 1/3 of the egg for my first try.

Food
For my food, I’ll use Vitakraft Goldfish Flakes. I’ll crush them into tiny pieces (A baby Triops eats 40% of his own mass, which is not much)
Food will be given from the 3rd day.

Hatching tank & Light
A 0,5l plastic water bottle will serve for the first week. It will be filled with the water of my aquarium. Above this bottle of water will be a lamp shining 24h/24h during the first three to four days.
After 1 week (or when I think they’re big enough) I’ll put them in my aquarium and hope my fish don’t eat them.
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I did some research about Triops.
I ordered my eggs on 18/06/2008. They have been sent on 20/06/2008 and they arrived on 23/06/2008. So a total of 5 days from ordering to arriving, which sure isn't bad considered it had a weekend between it and was on air mail. Thanks NetFysh! Small note: their packet tracking didn't work for me.
As you can see it has clear instructions, but I'll also follow the instructions from MyTriops.com.
>> Anonymous
fuck you.
>> http://triopsan.jottit.com/ Anonymous
op here, nevermind, i dropped them
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>>268726
>>268728
Well, people asked for it so I'm posting it, why do you even reply if you don't care about it. Even worse, you didn't even sage!
>> Anonymous
does this mean the triops are now over?
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I just took a 0.5l water bottle and added 1/3 of this package. I swirled it a bit and placed it in my closet/breeding place. I will continue swirling it for the next 2 hours at a 30 minutes interval. It looks like I'm to cheap to buy a decent container. If this batch doesn't work, I'll go buy some some cheap plastic lunch box to breed in next time (and some distilled water).
The lamp will stay on for the next 72 hours. If by then I don't see any movement, I'll start my second batch.

I don't really expect that something will grow in this bottle but just in case, I already prepared some food (in a bottle cap). Let's just hope for the best.
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Day 2
Not much happened today. The light has been on all the time. According to the instructions, I will be able to see some small lifeforms tomorrow. I hope I do
>> http://triopsan.jottit.com Anonymous
op here, disregard this thread, i drank it.