Triops longicaudatus
20 eggs + food
You are buying a kit which consists of:
10 eggs of Triops longicaudatus (Left hand)
Food to get them growing (Right side)
Triops are easy and fast novelty pets. They live happily in fresh water and eat almost anything as they are filter feeders. Fairy shrimp (which I sell) can be used as a food for them as well.
Triops are hardy, they are able to live in temperature ranges of 22-30 degrees. So in summer you won't need a heater. You don't even need an aquarium, a plastic container will do. Water ph of 7-9 means they can live in tap water that is dechlorinated by standing in a bucket for two days prior to use or bottled water.
Hatching:
I hatched mine as follow:I emptied the eggs into the baggie, added water (Dechlorinated water! I used Bene bottled water) and then I pushed the air out of the baggie and sealed it. I then floated the baggie in a fish tank with a temperature of 24 degrees celsius. About 2 days later they started to hatch, I removed the ones that hatched with a syringe and placed them in a plastic container and added a tiny little bit of food. Next day I removed the other newly hatched ones as well. I won't keep the different ages together as the bigger ones can eat the younger ones, Literature suggest fairy shrimp can be used as food and I will at 7 days start giving them fairy shrimps as fairy shrimps are cheap in comparison (I do 30-50 fairy shrimp at a time) You can dry unhatched eggs and try again, some will hatch only after the 3rd wetting I am told.
Currently mine are not yet very big, so they are in a small plastic containers with lids lightly on (so cat don't drink them), but I will be moving them into bigger 2lt ice cream tubs with fine aquarium silica and no heater. Just don't let temperature drop below 20 degrees, a desk lamp over the container can achieve this.
What they should look like in a few months:
PS. they live about 3 months. But you can harvest your own eggs.
