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[colbat0]

can i get leaves from my garden and put in stright away?? FOR TRIOP BABYS

 

[three-fingers]

You could, but I wouldn't recommend it.
The leaves wont provide enough infusoria for the baby triops straight away, but are better than nothing.
The problem is if you live in a town or city or even just next to a busy road, the oak leaves could have sucked up pollutants that will kill the baby triops.

 

[colbat0]

could i put the leaves in spring water in a sunny spot?

 

[three-fingers]

I would dry the leaves out first, then get some fishtank water/clean puddle water/ pond water and add this to a jar with 75% spring water and the dried leaves. After about a week in the sun, you can use this for hatching baby triops .

 

[colbat0]

a week!!!!!!!!!!! put as soon as the eggs come im startin them. ok ill do this ill put the jar out when it rains when it is a quater full i put the leaves in and fill to the top with spring water and put in sunner spot will that make sure they dont stave

 

[three-fingers]

Rain waters no good, as it will contain pollutants washed down from the atmosphere (though probably wont make too much of a differenace) and rain doesn't contain any infusoria, you need pond water, fish tank water or water that has been sitting in a puddly outside for at least a few days and is clean.

What you could do for baby triops food is buy some 'NT Labs Brine Shrimp Food' from your lfs, and feed it 5 drops daily until your triops are larger.

Or you could mix some yeast into a paste and feed that to the triops.

But the best way is infusoria, since that way you cant over or under feed, which would pollute the water or starve the triops.

 

[colbat0]

shall i just put some soil in soil from my garden wat we bought from BandQ

 

[three-fingers]

Depends what's actually in the soil....a lot contain various fertilisers or other chemicals that could be bad for triops. A lot of soils you buy are also sterilised to be free from disease, so will contain no infusoria. Also, the soil would be extremely nutrient rich so yo would get tonnes of algae.
So I don't think using soil is a good idea.
I've heard people make infusoria for baby fish by putting a banana peel in a jar of aquarium water too, but that's just messy and it still takes about a week in the sun.
The best option is to get some detritus from a pond if you have on nearby, but you will also be introducing other creatures to your triops tank this way..

 

[colbat0]

ive done this got a clean empty jar put 5 leaves in all diffent and filled it half with rain water and the rest with spring shuk and put in a sunny spot is that ok

 

[colbat0]

yay im a fish fantic