{"id":400,"date":"2008-04-07T04:01:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T09:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-04-07T04:01:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T09:01:59","slug":"how-long-before-they-eat-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"How long before they eat each other?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought Iris a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triops.com\/\">triops kit<\/a> a while back.  Triops are like sea monkeys, but cooler.  You get these tiny, dried out eggs that are in a state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diapause\">diapause<\/a>, or dormancy.  Just add distilled water at the right temperature, and watch the triops hatch and grow.  But the eggs in the kit did not hatch, despite our best efforts.  So, I sent away for replacement eggs, received them a few days ago, threw them into a tank of distilled water.  A day later, the swarm of dot-sized triops emerged:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VwPkj26IPmE&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VwPkj26IPmE&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<i>Cute triops babies.  Getting ready to eat each other.  The video&#8217;s a bit fuzzy because it&#8217;s hard to film tiny swimming dots with my camera.<\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VwPkj26IPmE\">(youtube link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are so many!  There has to be at least thirty of them in there.  I was only expecting to see a few little hatchlings.  But after reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/ideonexus.com\/2008\/04\/03\/tiassic-triops-first-run\/\">Ryan&#8217;s experience<\/a> with triops cannibalism, I imagine the triops count will dwindle over the next few days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought Iris a triops kit a while back. Triops are like sea monkeys, but cooler. You get these tiny, dried out eggs that are in a state of diapause, or dormancy. Just add distilled water at the right temperature, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-family","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}