Pretty neat.

Wouldn't they just hatch again on their own? Or no?

@@MMGJ10 They don't hatch until they're in water. They dry pretty quickly.

@@MMGJ10 the eggs have to be dried and then rehydrated again. If you have triops that had access to sand, after they die you can dry out the sand and rehydrate them afterwards, just leave the sand in direct sunlight for about a week or more. I had up to 20 triops at one point because of this.

@@whatheck6709 nicee

I got two big ones back when I had em. As expected, they ate the other hatchlings.

@@Flashlight237 Where they in a bigger tank?

I can't remember what tank they were in. I remember buying them off a magazine offer and they came with two different types of food pellets: one bag with green pellets and one bag with brown pellets. They both outlived the food pellets, so during the remainder if their lives, I fed them one of the things the instructions recommended: tiny bits of carrots. That's about the most I remember.

@@Flashlight237 bigger tanks mean there's more likely to be 2 Triops and its really rare to get more then one.

@@Flashlight237 had recently some. 1 went in 2 weeks to 8cm. It died at 3 weeks. And a second that was alot smaller maybe half the size it lived 2 more weeks. I tell you after it dried out I had this gigantic dried triops corpse in there. I moved the smaller one out at some point due to me being scared of it dying. You know cause the big one died and it was a gigantic corpse in the water.

New Mexico State University?

@@pyr3x849 Yep.

I have so much respect for you.

I agree! Triops are awesome.

Age 65 here! Just decided on a lark to get A Sea Monkey kit and a Triops kit!!

hope he dont start laying eggs though... queen speed.

Hope they don't start killin aliens speed. (The second movie)

This boy a facehugger

Ik my Triops doing the same

Triops can reproduce by themselves. I raise them.

That's adorable

It wants your blood

Seeker-Purr I agree

Land moss?

Good one

Sgt Jitters Good, switch to metric

Frank Byrnes ain’t my choice guy, but trust me, I’m right there with you. I don’t know how they expect us to remember how many feet are in a mile or shit like that. It’s a lot easier with powers of 10’s

@@fb9552 Bah, easy to use both, as well as the other measures of temperature. Why are people so simple?

I mean it makes sense for solid liquid and temp measurements, but for Measuring distance, it just sucks.

Fahrenheit is how people feel about temperature Celsius is how metal feels And I ain't no hunk of metal

Thank you! I'm quite happy with this video myself as well!

@@TheBWWaterfront Dude, you are replying to a comment I made three years ago. Stop being angry on internet and move on.

​@@MainehHuh?

@Bluelobster794 If I remember correctly he got incredibly angry because I got sad the triops died.

Yeah maybe

*fallout sarcasm* it’s just me, and a thousand triops! They turned.. carnivorous~

@Henry Wu I had one when I was around 8 or 10 and I fed it a tiny piece of a carrot once. They eat whatever you give to them basically.

Cole Pear you mean ogopogos

@@Jayman2800 ya. They're omnivores.

Lol

Lucky you!

Ahh okay. Danke!

CapnUnicorns Silly imperial people!

Truth be told it’s a dang joke

@Truth Be Told only a silly Fahrenheit person would say that

Why does the imperial system even still exist

ok but wait im an american that uses metric

Beautiful right?

When you clean the tank leave the exoskeletons in the water. They contain nutrients for building new skins and helps maintain healthy shedding :)

Nature is terrifying

Did you ever do it?

That’s because it’s also Prehistoric.

KovuGames That makes a lot of sense

KovuGames furry ewww

Abxbns Hackedjsjsj I don’t really care what you say. It’s 2019 man. Grow up!

Abxbns Hackedjsjsj Get outta this reply chain

Not all fairy shrimp live in saltwater

@potats I'm aware, but is it a different type of artemia? Because the ones I always seem to get are salt water!

@@ThePOSM if it managed to get to the adult stage (we can see it as an adult in this video), then yes, it is some sort of freshwater artemia type. In the wild, freshwater artemia, clam shrimp and daphnia commonly live with triops.

@potats yes im aware of these facts! :) I just wasn't aware of the fresh water variants! :o

before they die they usually lay eggs so u havea new generation of them

Might be, but still not a species I am personally familiair with

That's too bad...

:(

Keep buying triops!

Remember to use clean water. Distilled water is best, but I just boiled water for 20 min then let it sit for a few hours before I started. Water temp is important too. Keep it between 72 and 86 degrees (Fahrenheit..lol)

Nice

Nice.

Nice

Nice

Bad

Hahhaha xD great comment

They are really awesome

Great to hear!

Thanks!

Sure thing ;)

He'd have a cow if he knew our nuts and bolts were fractional instead of millimeters....

Trust me, it'll get worse ;)

It probably is, but once it's there it's there

@@LifeinJars agreed

@@LifeinJars I hope you get more triops they look really cool

Thank you!

Yeah they are pretty cool

This was actually all recorded a few months ago so maybe our triops have lived at the same time...

Interesting

Nice!

Same!

It’s like some guy took a horseshoe crab and tried to fuse it with trilobite DNA, closest thing in appearance we have today

@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 , link?

King ghidorah it’s a joke, I said it looks like a mashup of those two things

Rip Trilobites you will be missed 😭 I hate you great dying

Triops eggs need to completely dehydrate (and, preferably, freeze) before they are viable to hatch - and, even then, will only hatch in water with a very low bio-load. So, sadly, a Triops ecosphere will only work for exactly one generation - about 8 weeks. You could, of course, then dry it all out for a few months, and re hydrate it, but that's not exactly a sealed ecosphere, is it? :)

@@fudgeweasel That's such a crazy reproduction cycle, the freezing part that is.

@@orestesbastos Triops are fascinating, and their eggs are basically 'programmed' to ensure racial survival: so, if they dry out, and then re-hydrate, some of them will hatch - but not all. Some of them will not hatch until they have dried and re-hydrated 2 or more times; some won't hatch unless they have been dry for a certain amount of time; some won't hatch until they reach higher heat levels than others, or won't hatch if the heat is too high; and some won't hatch unless they have reached low enough temperatures before re-hydration. Some have a combination of these rules :P Basically, freezing allows for more viable, ready-to-hatch eggs when you re-hydrate them, since the eggs which are 'programmed' to wait out the winter before hatching, regardless of how many times they are hydrated, will be tricked in to thinking they experienced winter. I could bore everyone to tears with huge threads about these awesome girls, but I'll avoid the temptation, and stop there :D

Thanks

You're telling your sister the legendary trilobite LOL

That would require setting up a new aquarium and I don't think I have room for that at this time but is sure would be a lot of fun

They are easy. Use a small pot with spring water and a lamp over them so they get plenty of light. Give it a shot, they are not complicated and are a lot of fun :)

I certainly have. But don't worry, I debunked that years ago!

Thank you:)