I was trying to cultivate sea monkeys but forgot to feed them. When I rechecked there were only two babies and then only one. I left it as a failed batch in the middle of December and went on vacation. When I returned, my wife noticed that the tank was filled with sea monkeys and they some were huge. How did they survive if nobody fed them in three weeks?
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im looking to get some for myself but the are to expensive online.does anyone happen to had a batch of eggs for trade i could trade some sea-monkey eggs in return.
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Hello, I’ve tried hatching a batch of triops eggs and used only distilled water, plenty of light and controlled temperature. 6 days have passed with no hatching so I’m assuming something went wrong. I read on some websites that very often Triops kits come with dry organic matter (usually leaves) that are supposed to provide baby triops with nutrition for the first few days. My kit did not supply this, so I used plain dry leaves from my garden. Didn’t work. Neither did my tank where I put fairy shrimp eggs (for triops food) and the exact same conditions as the triops hatching tank.
I started another tank for fairy shrimp eggs using only water and no dried leaves. Temperature, light and water quality were all highly controlled. Still no hatching after 4 days.
Where have I screwed up? Is it possible for ALL the eggs in my kit to be dead?
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I bought brine shrimp to feed my fish – and the whole tank seemed to love chasing after the live food. The actual life of the food, however, didn’t seem to last very long. Is it still a treat to feed fish dead brine shrimp? Or should I just throw them out? How long should a brine shrimp batch last (how long should they live, and how long until I should throw out a jar of them)? I thought the whole point of these critters was that they were alive!!
I have a pair of 7-8 year old Oscars. They have their second batch of successfully hatched fry (free swimming for a day now.) The first batch has one surviver that is in it’s own tank. I know that I could remove them from their parents for a bigger # to survive but as a hobbyist, I have little resources of “takers” when the fry are big enough. I need suggestions with good filtration without sucking up the babies…I have tried panty hose on the end of my bio-filter tube but that doesn’t prevent fry from getting stuck to it. I also could use good suggestions for feeding them. I use brine shrimp and have used crushed flakes. With them in a big tank..how can I ensure they are finding the food?