My triops have failed. :(

[FuSoYa]

So I just wrote to Triops Inc. to try and get them to send me replacement eggs. Also I added them to my buddy list so I can IM them when they sign on. (AIM name - triopsinc).

 

[minxnim]

think they'll replace them? i'm sorry it didnt work.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

I'm sorry to hear that dude. I hear video games are important in the grief process.

 

[FuSoYa]

I hope so - I mean, from their website it seems that they genuinely live for Triops - and if replacing my triops eggs for free will help their proliferation, I bet they'd do it.

 

[minxnim]

if you write them a heartfelt plea i bet it'll work.

 

[FuSoYa]

Help me write my letter? What kinds of phrases should I include?

 

[xfer]

"three-eyed lawsuit material"

 

[FuSoYa]

alex, i just noticed that you actually got rep points for your sig from the Opeth board.

haha!

 

[chupe666]

i gave him some- does it say who gives you them?

 

[FuSoYa]

some stranger posted that he loved the horse surfing and that xfer was getting rep for it.

 

[xfer]

strangers often compliment me on my horsier attributes.

 

[goatschool]

Toby, how long did you wait?

i too, thought that my triops were a no-show. as per my established process of doing things, i hesitated a few weeks before tossing the water out.

lo and behold, three weeks (or was it four? this was years ago) after giving up, a lumpy monster became visible, skimming under the scum liquid, as prescribed in the directions...

i say, don't give up the boat just yet

 

[FuSoYa]

k nick. but.. when should i feed them?

I've waited about 48 hrs now.

 

[goatschool]

i'm trying to remember. i don't think i fed it (singular) anything!

and here's the thing that amazed me. i was seeing ALL kinds of stuff swimming around in there, during the brief time period before i wrote triops #1 off. i'm more than sure i saw a brine shrimp or two, plus other indescribable creatures. look closely. i think that's the triops food, they just don't say that.

then all movement stopped. that's when i was ready to dump the tank out.

and, i recall the instructions and the box telling you that there will be a multiple triops birth. that's misleading. both times i hatched, there was only one triops baby survivor.

 

[goatschool]

also, those things are scary. i never stuck my finger in there.

 

[Novembers Paul]

Triops? Glorified Sea Monkies (Brine Shrimp) ?