Triassic TRIOPS - Triops Hanging Kit, Contains Eggs, Food, Instructions and Helpful Hints to Hatch and Grow Your Own Prehistoric Creatures, Fun Educational Toy for Kids

Triassic TRIOPS - Triops Hanging Kit, Contains Eggs, Food, Instructions and Helpful Hints to Hatch and Grow Your Own Prehistoric Creatures, Fun Educational Toy for Kids

• Grow up to one inch long
• Includes eggs and nutrients
• Lives 20-90 days
• Great science project
• Use PETCO Beta Water sold in a ready to use bottle. Available at Amazon.com and pet superstores to assure the health of your Triops

Triassic Triops is a great way to hatch, grow, and observe the behavior of an amazing creature that hasn't changed in a million years. This kit is perfect as a starter kit to grow Triops or for refilling an existing kit. Items needed by you are a small dish, tank, bottled water and a peeled carrot. Triops can grow up to 2 and 50 times the size of their eggs. They are guaranteed to hatch in 24 hours. This refill kit includes: approximately 70 - 80 Longicaudatus Triops eggs Adult and Baby Food Thermometer Instructions Triassic Triops are actual prehistoric creatures which are identical to their prehistoric kin. They survived the centuries during interrupted states of suspended animation or "diapause". This state of suspended animation enables the Triops to survive seasonal drought. Triassic Triops permits you to grow and study the behavior of an amazing creature that hasn't changed in a million years. Triops are crustaceans that can be traced back to the prehistoric times. These three-eyed creatures grow up to 3 inches in length in their 20-90 day life span, sometimes doubling in size in a single day! Triops are brightly colored due to hemoglobin in the blood and pigment in their connective tissue. Very resourceful, they obtain oxygen from the water through their feet and sometimes swim on their backs, sweeping food into their mouths using their many lets. These intriguing creatures make great pets as they are very interesting to observe. Triops: way cooler, bigger and more active than sea monkeys Sorry, Australian law prohibits shipping this product to Australia