Once the triops are about a week old, or a little bigger, I move them to a 10 gallon tank filled with R/O water. Distilled works too. I put all the water from the rearing tank. I put well rinsed play sand in the bottom of the tank so the triops can dig &lay eggs.eroomlorac wrote:I am responding to an old post, but I saw that you have kept triops. I have tried that, too, with a kit I bought at Wal-Mart but my triops live about three weeks then all die. Do you keep your tank of triops perpetual, in that the lay eggs and grow as the older ones die? I thought the eggs had to go through a drying cycle. Let me know if you still have triops and how you have kept them. I can hatch them and keep them through a lifecycle, then that's it. Interested in keeping a tank of them going. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. Carol
I also put a few adult pond snails inthe tank as the bigger triops love to eat the little baby snails.
I use hung over the back filter with a foam filter over the intak so the triops don't get stuck on the intake. open the the "tea bag" in the the tank. It is loaded with good bactera. Don't worry about the mess.
Do NOT do water changes, just add distilled or R/O water to make up for evaporation. Be carefull not to over feed. I feed live daphnia, sinking goldfish granules. Live plants are good, epecially fast growers. I used Riccia, but needed to shelter it from the filter outflow. As the tank gets overgrown, just pull out theplants and dispose of them in other tanks, sell them, etc.
They will live for around 3 months and get to be 4"+ head to tail.
Once they die off, dain the water off the sand and ad a strong brine solution to it. stirr it up really well. Pour off the stuff that floats through a coffee filter. Rinse well & dry it. These are your eggs.
To start the next generation you need to buy more tea bags, or get some pond mud.