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Re:Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nur... by boffinAudio on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:33AM (#36628435)
We fed them pretty well; I've never heard of Triops that weren't cannibalistic.

The Hydrae are exceptionally interesting, we just collect glass jars of lake water and watch them grow over a few weeks before releasing them .. its quite an adventure watching the budding occur, seeing the growth, watching the nematodes being chomped on ..

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Re:Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nur... by froj on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:57AM (#36628618)
Maybe I need to refresh my memory. I should have some eggs lying around still.

The nematodes also come with the lake water?

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Re:Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nur... by boffinAudio on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:28AM (#36663118)
>The nematodes also come with the lake water?

In our hydrae experiments, yes, they came with the lake water .. you can see some pictures here if you're interested, there's a video of the battle between nematode and hydra as well - I did this experiment with my kids many times over the years, its always fascinating to see what grows and what eats and what stays behind ..

https://imgur.com/user/waterplusalgaeequalshydra

Bonus retro-computing stuff there too.. ;)

>Triops eggs

Let me know how it goes! I love the Triops arena ..

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