Monday, December 18, 2006
You know what I'm going to say - they've grown bigger! =D
Anyway, Dopey asked me today what these things are. Well, they're freshwater crustaceans like shrimps, but are really ancient things - according to Wikipedia, the external morphology of Trops cancriformis has not changed since 220 million years ago. The species I'm keeping is T.longicaudatus, but I'm guessing it must also be quite ancient? Anyway, they're adapted to survival in transient desert puddles in nature - extremely fast growth rates, and the eggs survive dehydration for several years (I think 25 years has been recorded) and hatch again when there's water.
A couple of updates though:
1) Survivor is starting to catch up with Mr. Meanass in size! Still a tad smaller than him though, but they're growing =)
2) We bought a bunch of live Tubifex worms yesterday - XT took the bulk of it to feed her fish (at least, I think it's fish she's keeping ... puffers and crayfish etc) but the Triops are loving the worms too!
3) Since Survivor's kinda large enough, Yx and I put him into Mr. Meanass' tank tonight. So far they're playing nicely with each other ... they go bumpity-bump and scuttle off into their individual corners. No aggression yet, although the real danger comes when they are moulting and more susceptible to attacks. Hope they'll be fine together!
Finally, some pics - I'll post the pics of the 2 of them in the same tank tomorrow... gotta start tonight's studying soon.
Mr Meanass, with a Tubifex worm that escaped into the sand.
His legs ..
Wenky
10:55 PM
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