List Price: £7.99 Price: £6.84 You save: £1.15 (14%)
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Features:
contains - trip tank and lid, triop eggs, triop food, sand, instructions
Triops date back to the time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The eggs of these creatures can lay dormant in deserts for years before coming to life when it rains and pools form
eggs will hatch within 24 hours of going into water and then will double in size every day
fun, fascinating and educational
Editorial Review:
Grow a real living pet from the age of the dinosaurs! Watch them come to life when added to water and see how they double in size each day! Triops hatch in 24 hours, can grow up to 4cm long and have an incredible life cycle. Guaranteed to hatch! 7 Years +
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Short-lived but fascinating creatures This kit allows you to hatch and rear specimens of Triops longicaudatus, the longtail tadpole shrimp. You simply follow the instructions in the kit (it's basically a case of adding some dirt which contains the eggs into a pot of water and putting it somewhere warm and light) and the T. longicaudatus soon hatch and start growing at an almost alarming pace. The relatively short life cycle makes it an excellent teaching aid for teaching anything to do with growth and development. T. longicaudatus are fed on... more info
Poor Fatty Its simple really, you get a packet of eggs that look like tobaco, and you pour half of them in some natural mineral water that should be inside the inclded bowl.
Wait 24 hours and half the eggs should have hatched, your told not to feed them for the next 48 hours as they will eath the eggs. When there first hatched its hard to see them but you can see little tiny white tails swimming around, and lots of them!
Soon after 48 hours they should now be clearly visable and you can now feed them with... more info
A Tribute to Chompy Is it possible to become emotionally attached to a kill-crazy cannibalistic worm that looks like a facehugger from the Alien movies and spends most of its time attempting to eat its siblings? Having recently shed a tear while burying my last one - Chompy - in the back garden, I'd say yes. These little beasties inspired fear and disgust in my girlfriend, but to me they were true friends.
How could I forget the way Chompy used to play with his smaller brothers, chasing them around their tank for hours on... more info
this is a realy fun and cool kit This product realy works. The biggest one that I had was about one and a half inches. have fun!...
