Hello! So sometime in early 2016 I had ordered one of those children's Triop Kits where you get a fish and put triop eggs in them and hatch triops. As a kid they would never work,
however I managed to hatch 4 triops, one of which died (maybe due to complications) what I did was I followed the instructions how to set it up, instead of using bottled water or tap, I used water from my established tank instead.
Worked like a charm. Well, after a month or so, they were fairly large so I added them to my Community Tank with a Betta and 4 White Cloud Mountain minnows, sadly, me forgetting that Bettas attack anything with long wavy tails, of course my Betta chased them around, and I never saw them again.
So I'm back again looking to start hatching more, (I only used a quarter of the batch I used in 2016 so I'm gonna use all the stuff in the package this time) I was just wondering,
If I successfully hatch 3 of them, would they be able to live happily in a 10 Gallon tank with about 10 guppies?
I'm not sure if anyone even knows what a Triop is, but they look like Horshoe Crabs and they have relatively small life spans and are fairly hardy and can swim but prefer to skim across the floor.
Just search up Triop.
I was thinking of going 20 Gallons but I'm on a fairly small budget right now. But if 20 is recommended then I'll definetly do 20
Also it has been done before, just with other fish,
Search it on YouTube
however I managed to hatch 4 triops, one of which died (maybe due to complications) what I did was I followed the instructions how to set it up, instead of using bottled water or tap, I used water from my established tank instead.
Worked like a charm. Well, after a month or so, they were fairly large so I added them to my Community Tank with a Betta and 4 White Cloud Mountain minnows, sadly, me forgetting that Bettas attack anything with long wavy tails, of course my Betta chased them around, and I never saw them again.
So I'm back again looking to start hatching more, (I only used a quarter of the batch I used in 2016 so I'm gonna use all the stuff in the package this time) I was just wondering,
If I successfully hatch 3 of them, would they be able to live happily in a 10 Gallon tank with about 10 guppies?
I'm not sure if anyone even knows what a Triop is, but they look like Horshoe Crabs and they have relatively small life spans and are fairly hardy and can swim but prefer to skim across the floor.
Just search up Triop.
I was thinking of going 20 Gallons but I'm on a fairly small budget right now. But if 20 is recommended then I'll definetly do 20
Also it has been done before, just with other fish,
Search it on YouTube
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