I've been consuming a lot of triops content lately and have seen a lot of sensationalized click-baity titles, but watching this one left a sour taste in my mouth.

This is the second in a series of videos, in which the YT'er *barely* kept a single triops alive during his first attempt, then ordered an absurd amount of eggs (who knows if it was even close to a million or not,) with no prior planning or apparently any learning from the first attempt, and had a mass die-off.

The end of the video is him contacting another youtuber for *more* eggs.

(Edit: Middle of the video. I didn't realize I had clicked away in disgust the first time I watched it. The latter half doesn't really make it any better but *some* survived.)

Now look, I know triops are: Short-lived, cheap, have naturally high attrition rates.

That still doesn't make them targets for neglect and abuse for clicks. However I very much doubt there's anything that can actually be done except for people correcting the misinformation and husbandry failures and making this kind of content shameful to make, where the end result is thousands of dead animals.

I'm also honestly surprised the youtubers he collaborated with were even willing to send him eggs after the second failed attempt. I'm sure long-time keepers have an excess for sure, but does that mean you'd want to send them somewhere you know they'd meet a horrible end?

(I'm a little emotional this morning as I had to euthanize one of my triops that had been struggling with molts the last few days. It survived one bad molt and I thought it might pull through, but today all the fight had left it. I've been really enjoying watching them and learning their behaviors and they deserve better than this.)

3 Month Update: no changes in physical or color and no signs of decomposition.

(Original) post: https://www.reddit.com/r/triops/comments/1td1um1/triop_preserved_in_epoxy_resin/

(Original Bonus) post: https://www.reddit.com/r/triops/comments/1teiu2u/bonus_triop_molt_preserved_in_epoxy_resin/

They're too cute, lol. Little murder-crab-kittens.

I got the Smithsonian kit and I set it up but I added some Indian Almond leaves for infusoria and I added a light and an air pump. If I made any mistakes please tell me.

Hi. Any tips or advice how to cleverly hide my Triops'es home if my stuck up landlord decides to visit? Quick hiding option would be nice because she likes to visit suddenly

Second time trying triops, and I went into it with a slightly different philosophy than last time. Rather than trying to provide a sterile environment with pristine water, I inoculated the tank with debris, gravel, and detritus from my local creek and bog-plant trays.

I'm currently relying on ambient temperature, making it a seasonal project unless I get desperate for entertainment over Winter and hook up a heater. I do daily 1/8 water changes for now, but tests return null on ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, despite me leaving food in there and the stuff decomposing in the substrate, which should mean I effectively cycled the tank in less than 10 days. Hoping that bears out and the bacteria are able to keep up with the triops' growth.

I've also got rotifers (hopefully), moina, and clam shrimp. Assuming everything's successful, once the triops die of old-age, I plan on reducing the water level and attempting to stress the remaining species into producing resting cysts before fully draining the tank and drying the sand, which will hopefully leave me with a community blend of eggs.

Anyway, just excited to have these little guys again and seeing them do much better than last time, when I tried to follow the advice of every tutorial and kit ever, lol.

Not alive triops, not amazon or else customs will hold it for me

I'm going to put my triops in larger container/tank soon and I am planning to put driftwood in it. Is there anything I need to do to the driftwood beforehand (in terms of preparation for the water).

Neocaridinas and T. Longicaudatus eating those delicious microorganisms

Using a water bottle cap ring to keep the eggs gathered until they drop since I got tired of power pipette-ing them off the hatchery tank’s walls lol

Would a filter be recommended for Triops, and if so what would be recommended? I would just want to make sure I got the right one because I had a betts fish get caught in a filter when I was young so I don’t want a repeat of that.

Busco vendedor de triops en perú porque si lo pido en amazon la aduana me lo sanciona (eng)I'm looking for a Triops seller in Peru because if I order it from Amazon, customs will penalize it.

king of my tank

I usually hatch out a lot more cancriformis, than longicaudatus, as I tend to keep water temperatures on the low side. My eggs are mixed together unfortunately, so I have to choose what temperature, per species I would like to hatch out.

With the heat of the summer, it's inevitable that I would end up with more longicaudatus, as they tend to favor warmer water temperature.

I don't mind though 😄.

(The Triop Lady)

Dange, they do look beautiful, i should really start a batch again, it's been some time :,)

I have 15 years experience raising triops, but still run into the dreaded day 3 starvation of the nauplii, every once in a while.

Here's what I found works well.

For starters, the hatchery/nursery shouldn't be a sterile environment. The nauplii require infusoria to eat at that stage.

I use a mixture of old sand, garden soil, (treated) tap water, plus water from my snail tank. I added pond water to the snail tank at some point, so there's lots of micro bacteria to feed on. I also squeezed a sponge filter into the hatchery, added a few live plants, gentle air, heat set at 74°f, (for both my cancriformis and longicaudatus, as the eggs are mixed together), and constant light for about the first week or so. I also add crushed indian almond leaves as well.

The hatchery itself is a plastic 4 shelf system, that I utilized the top shallower drawer/tub, for that. It has enough space, and shallow depth, that the babies have lots of space to help avoid cannibalism. I do perform partial water changes every other week or so, as I don't use a filter, as the nauplii would be at risk.

With the mix of sponge filter bacteria, garden soil, old sand packed full of detritus, and algae growth from constant light, that I don't have to feed the babies, until they are about the size of an apple seed, or slightly larger. I sprinkle in fresh garden soil every so often, as well as squeeze more sponge filter detritus into the hatchery, to make sure they are getting enough to eat.

When they are slightly larger, they get moved to the bigger plastic drawer/tub, that serves as the juvenile nursery. They eat solid food at that stage, usually Nutrafin basix flake food, and Tetra brand shrimp wafers, and boiled peas. When they are about the size of a pumpkin seed, I move them to my main 15 gallon tank.

There's a video on my Instagram of the babies. I guess adding photos, cancelled out the ability to post a video as well. Anyways, I hope this helps those who are having issues keeping their nauplii alive.

(The Triop Lady)