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Here are my Triops longicaudatus!!!!!
The elodea that I added had snail eggs on it, so now I have snails AND Triops.
These eggs are from the "Triassic Triops Envelope Kit" and they are in a 10 gallon aquarium.
They are currently laying TONS of eggs in the pea gravel!!!

They are about 28 days old.
When they hatched they were 0.5mm long, and now they are like 350 mm long (these pics are from Wednesday, and they are much larger now).

They are so hard to photograph because they are CONSTANTLY swimming about and moving!!

Please post your comments!!

Wow Banana, they look great. I don't think I have ever seen them so large before. You should send me some eggs in an envelope and let me grow your babies

I absolutely love triops - they are so hilariously cute. I miss mine =/ though their eggs are drying out in another room right now so in future I may hatch some more. Well done with them and I hope they give you endless hours of enjoyment!

Those are nice, i have never seen them, they look like the horse shoe crab!

Wait a min... I think you meant 35mm long, 350mm would be terrifying.

Nice pics! I miss my Triops. They all died after a few months. Maybe I'll try again.

haha cool

I love some of the beasties that hatch alongside triops. Just thinking, you said you acquired snails too? Do you have any photos of those?

Wow so cool!!!! I want to hold one.

really cool banana I tried raising them but only one hatched and it died dnt know why.

cpman wrote:really cool banana I tried raising them but only one hatched and it died dnt know why.

Temperature has a great impact in aquatic organism specially the small ones like Triops.

For example, just think about this, larvae which is aquatic and then changes to a mosquitoe, if the water is cold it will take far more time for it to transform into a mosquitoe. Or a fly for example if during the egg stage before hatching the temperatures are very high, the fly will hava a mutation of some sort. A shrimp, if a shirmp is put in warm water it will produce male shrimps, but if it is put in cold water, then it changes to female and it will produce female shirmps.

So if cold it won't probably hatch and died. If hot, then it will hatch and survive if my guess. Also a good experiment would be raising the temps high and keeping some in cold water to see how both groups react!

Beauties, i tried to grow Triops in the past but i never had much success.
Only got one to adult stage.

Nice! They look so kool

Has anyone tried growing this species of Triops. They claim they are the largest in the world. 4.5cm. I'm thinking of ordering some.

http://cgi.ebay.com/King-Triops-T-cancr ... 685wt_1141

Brad

Brad I think you meant 4.5 inches. Thats what the ebay auction says... but they are really neat, I might try growing them again.