Raising triops with a nursery tank
Triops grow very quickly. I mean crazy fast - from an egg about size of a piece of pepper to full-grown (almost an inch long) in about a week. So the little tank that I got with my first set wasn't really big enough to hold even one full-grown triop without my having to keep changing the water every few hours - and even then it was a mess. So I bought a gallon tank, which gives my full-grown triops more room. And I'm using the smaller tank just for hatching. Once a triop is large enough to be comfortable in the big tank, eating adult food, I move them. As of this writing, there are two baby triops in the nursery tank, and two adult triops in the main tank. The main tank has a filter, which helps greatly with keeping the water clear, but you don't want to move the babies until there's no danger that they'll be sucked into the filter. Also, and I hate to mention this, but the little ones are in danger of being eaten by the big ones. So I keep the hatchlings in the nur