![]() Good luck and have fun! Feel free to ask for questions/advice any time - that's part of why this sub exists. In fact, in other parts of the world people will introduce triops in to their ponds and other stagnant water pools specifically because they'll eat the mosquito eggs. Tap water is absolutely NOT recommended, even if it's been treated with water conditioner. I personally use spring water but I know others have had good results with distilled. I usually feed my triops shrimp pellets for day-to-day food and give them cucumber slices when I'm going to be out of town for a few days. Shrimp pellets are fine (in fact, that's probably what's included in your kit), so are veggies like carrots and cucumbers. That being said, triops are omnivores and you can feed them pretty much anything (within reason). ![]() Food is sort of a non-issue triops lifespans are only a few months at most and the food packets most kits give you last waaaaaay longer than that. As long as the environment they're in is otherwise healthy kit-based triops should have no problems whatsoever with reproducing. Most triops species (including longicaudatus) will start laying eggs once they're 2-3 weeks old, and they'll continue to lay eggs every couple days for the rest of their life. You'll definitely want to do some research and/or keep asking questions on this sub when it comes to actually hatching and raising the triops. Typically from what I've seen though most kits are good at giving you the essentials (except for water and sometimes a container) but they're very VERY bad with their packaged instructions. Are you able to tell us the name of the kit? That would help us in determining if they include "everything" or not. If you're European then they might actually be Cancriformis. Yes, if you're American then it's extremely likely that the species in your kit is longicaudatus - they're typically the "default" species for most kits in this country. This is exactly the right place to ask this and you're not asking dumb questions at all. Could they, if eaten by the triops, kill them? If a common insect or its larvae from say a moth/fly/mosquito finds its way into the water. ![]() What can you feed them once their provided food packet runs out? However since nowadays u cant really trust a kit to "include everything you need" or to even offer the best instruction for success I'd love some advice/answers.Ĭan triops from a kit potentially breed or will the conditions they are in somehow tamper with them wanting to reproduce? So far there seems to be a tendency to triops. Idk if this is the right place to ask this but ah well.Īs the title implies my cousin got bit by the "I want a pet fish" idea and by now they sorta settled on getting either a triops or seamonkey growing kit.
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