Triops

Yep - yet another aquatic thing to try. Someone mentioned Triops on the GSAS alias and I figured what the hey - sounds interesting - I poked around on the web and found some more info on them. They are a slightly horseshoe crab like thing that has 3 eyes and grows to about 2 inches. Their native environment are ponds which go dry so they are a bit like killifishes and such like. They have short lives and their eggs expect to go through a dry period before hatching when the pond fills up again.

So I went down to “Science Art and More” a great place to buy misc. toys, glassware and such. I get long glass “eye” droppers there to feed and dose tanks plus grandkid presents…. I found some triops eggs in a cute little kit. It included some dried pond muck (aka - nutrient material) and the eggs. I set up a small tank and put them in a glass dish in its water to soak yesterday. Didn’t see anything today.

More later!