GreenWaterFarm Triops Longicaudatus Eggs for Hatching and Culture Suitable to be Pet and Science Project (Pure 200 Eggs)

We received our kit and so far we have around 20 that hatched which is pretty good. I would recommend this. It’s worth a shot.

I created seemingly perfect conditions in a large plastic container, with natural stones and rain water. Kept it in the shade next to thriving orchids in my back yard in Florida. None hatched.

I purchased eggs on April 29, 2022 and received them in two days with prime shipping. After following careful instructions with kid kits for hatching triops and having no luck on more than one occasion, I decided to wing this batch. I floated a small clear dish (about 6-8oz, the little round ones sweet and sour sauce comes in when you get Chinese takeout!) in my established 75 gallon freshwater tank containing water from that tank so that it would stay a consistent 78 degrees farenheit. I opened the package and retrieved the small vial of eggs-- that vial is my only qualm about the product. I opened it and because of static, NONE of the eggs would dump out of the tube. I used a pipette to gently flush water into the vial several times over top of my little dish. Unfortunately even this was not very effective and the force I had to use to jet water into the vial caused some of the eggs to end up in my 75 gallon tank. I recollected all I could and put them back into the dish. It was nearly 10 minutes of me fighting to actually get all of the eggs out of the vial. I'm not fully convinced there were 200 eggs in the vial, but I can say with confidence that there looked to be at least 150 eggs in the batch I received. Maybe it was 200. It's incredibly difficult to count them.My tank used to be planted so I have an Oddysea plant light on the tank. I don't know if that matters. I turned the light on so the eggs would be floating directly under a bright light. It has been exactly 24 hours and I just checked the dish... there were SO MANY baby triops swimming in the dish! I went and found four more little dishes and I used a pipette to transfer some of the babies into each dish to help reduce predation. I sucked up and transferred a total of exactly 65 baby triops into my other four dishes and I left approximately 20 baby triops (these I did not individually count with the pipette, just counted by eye) in my original dish. So I currently have about 85 baby triops exactly 24 hours after placing these eggs into water. That's over a 40% hatch rate and with a critter people frequently get a >10% hatch rate with, I'm pretty excited about that rate. And I imagine it's possible that more may continue to hatch, it has only been 24 hours.After spreading the babies across 5 containers total, I crumbled up several tiny pellets of food that I had from a kid triop hatching kit. I mixed the crumbs with water and used my pipette to gently flush crumbles around in each of the containers. As soon as a baby made contact with the food, they clung to it. I'm not sure if this was feeding or resting behavior, but they enjoyed the addition of the crumbles either way. Tomorrow at 48 hours, I will separate more babies as needed, use my pipette to remove any food waste, siphon a tiny amount of water out of each dish, use the pipette to flush some new fresh water into each dish/aerate the water, and then I will offer the babies a new round of food. I plan to repeat this until they get large enough that I can transfer them into a small tank with a sponge filter. Unfortunately I only set up a 2 gallon tank for these guys because I only expected to hatch 1-2. Realistically, only a couple of the ones I hatched will actually get any size to them so the 2 gallon might not be a bust yet. But if even 5+ make it, we're going to need to upgrade to at least a 10 gallon.I will try to update regarding the success I have with these little guys. But in regards to the product itself, I'm very satisfied with these eggs. They are definitely fertile, and they definitely have potential for a decent hatch rate if given proper conditions. My prior attempts I used distilled water, 70 degrees Farenheit and eggs from kid's kits and never had luck. This time I used water from an established freshwater fish tank (roughly 6.8 pH), 78 degrees Farenheit, and a bright light and had good luck within 24 hours. I know these guys are pretty short lived overall. I will definitely purchase eggs from this company again, and next time I might attempt to hatch only half of the eggs at a time so I have less predation and can enjoy the little guys more than once.

Very much looked like way less than the 200 they said. I just added the eggs to the tank so we shall see if they hatch. The eggs stick to the plastic tube, the tube is incredibly small and very hard to empty I ended up using water and a toothpick to gently get them out. They really stick to the tube. Will update in a few days with if any hatched.3 days later. No specks yet, I guess mabey none hatched. Probably my fault but still bummed. If any show I will update.

It has been 3 days since I started to hatch the triops and I can see at least 5 little babies swimming around!I'll let y'all know what I did, and hopefully this can help some future buyers have success as well!The first thing I did is I used fishtank water from one of my freshwater aquariums. I put about 2 inches worth of aquarium water in a Tupperware container (roughly 6×3" rectangulr at roughly 3" height) and used some paperclips to fasten the container to the inside of the fishtank. The container was still floating so the triops would be contained just in the container, and not the aquarium as they are too small for a couple weeks! This way, their water was submerged and maintain the same temperature as the aquarium and will also be recieving the proper amount of light to get them to hatch. It is also much easier to monitor them this way. This aquarium is also the one they will be living in once I feel they are ready to go in :) so once they are ready. You just fish them our and plop them in!I then dumped in about 10-15 eggs (I'm not sure the exact number, but it wasn't much! As I still have so much left even though it almost seems like there were maybe 15 eggs in the whole thing, trust me, they're there and i still have so much left!!) But so far I've counted 5 hatched and keep seeing a new one almost every time I check!To have these little guys thrive, I would recommend having an already started and fully cycled mature aquarium in which they will be living in once large enough to move them! That fishtank water has a ton of tiny microbes for them to feed on when they're microscopic for the best hatch rate and growth and seeing the most survive and thrive!I'll try to remember to add an edit/update to this review if I have any important updates!

Not a single one of these hatched. I tried three different batches and no luck. I doubt this reflects poorly on the brand but perhaps they were killed in shipment.

Don't listen to these bad reviews. I thought mine wasn't gonna hatch but they did after 72 hours almost. Yes, if you keep them all together you're only gonna end up with 3 or 4 because they are cannibals, especially at a young age. It's survival of the fittest. And don't just toss them away after not seeing them, they're literally microscopic so you may not think you have some until you look super close and see little specs of dust swimming. All you need is water that isnt lower than 74 degrees or higher than 82, a lot of light, and patience. I used a oxygen pump after 48 hours since they weren't hatching and I think that's what kick-started them to. Don't feed them until at least 24 hours after hatching. Use water from your other cycled aquarium or if not use spring water but you have to put natural nutrients in it and make sure there's no chlorine or they won't live. (Aka tap water because most people use just tap water and that'll just kill them instantly) dont buy them if you don't know what you're doing at all, that's all man. Still extremely easy to hatch if you actually do your research before trying them out. That's one of mine that hatched in the picture. Just to show you how small they are at first

Although I can't vouch for the hatch rate yet (which by the way is probably seldom due to "bad eggs"), I wanted to comment on the packaging. I don't understand all the bad reviews about wet eggs or eggs dumped all over. Mine came in a cute little box and within that was a completely sealed (tear to open) foil-looking bag, and then within that was a tiny capsule containing the eggs. I think it is packaged perfectly. Hard to dump out? Sure. I had to use a pipette and squirt them out. Now as to count, I didn't even bother trying, but there seemed like a lot (probably not 200, though). Maybe the packaging needs to be changed to read "100" since this is also a common complaint. Regardless, excited to see these hatch... Dinged one star for what seems to be less than 200 count.Edit/Update: Well within 24 hours, the majority of these eggs hatched, and the little guys are swimming around like crazy. Updating my review to 5 stars because my other triops kit (the kind for kids) had less eggs (about 60, the ones that come in sand) and there were only like 3 survivors in the end (I blame my setup, not the kit tho). Also, when I do this again, I will dump the eggs on a folded piece of paper first versus using a pipet to flush the eggs out and do a count. Pretty sure it was close to 200 eggs after all, and I'm pretty sure I'll have a lot more survivors since there are a lot more eggs!

This brand is great! Triops started hatching within a day from being soaked in water. We received this on Jan 5th. It's almost a week and all the eggs that hatched are still alive, growing and thriving. We had algae from a Clementoni kit (not very good brand - only 2 eggs hatched and both died after a couple of days. Don't buy the Clementoni brand!). So make sure you buy triops food if you buy this product as the triops feed a lot and grow fast. My 12-yr old son was very happy with his purchase. He used a gift card he received for Christmas and this sure is a great purchase.

Ecerything worked as promised!

Alot of baby triops. Highly recommend

Es un excelete productoa mis hijos les encataron sus nuevos triops

田土を何度か購入してみましたが、ホウネンエビやカイエビはすぐ湧きますがカブトエビは未だに出会えていないので購入しちゃいました。想像の10倍小さい入れ物に卵が入っていました。ぱっと見100粒もないですが200粒・・？にはどう見ても見えませんが数えてるらしいのできっとあるのでしょうとりあえず孵化さえしてくれれば良いので期待を込めて☆4で