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Death and Redemption
May 22nd
No need to worry, the sea monkeys are still doing fine, but as I said almost a month ago, tragedy struck the triops. It all started when I decided that the rocks in their aquarium were not good enough to satisfy their urge to dig. They needed something better, so I went out looking for some sand. Instead of doing the easy thing and getting it from a local playground, I wanted to spoil them and get the sand from Myrtle Beach, SC. After a week of work, I traveled down there to stay for the weekend, and then brought the sand back home to put in their tank. All was well for awhile, until I noticed that they were moving around very lethargically later that night. I immediately transferred them to a fresh water tank that was filled with PUR filtered water. The four of them flailed around for a few hours, but eventually, one by one, they bit the dust. When I woke up in the morning they were all floating there, and I had yet to determine the reason. I later figured out that the sand must have had too much salt from the ocean in it, and had converted their fresh water to salt. Research on the net told me that they couldn't live in salt water. Now here is the weird thing. Just today, as I was getting ready to dump out the tank and clean it, I noticed something swimming around inside! Somehow, a triop baby had hatched in this harsh salt water environment, a month after its parents had died. I couldn't believe it! The miracle baby looked to be already a week old, how he survived that long without food is another mystery. It has been transferred to a fresh water tank and is doing fine. Here are the last videos I took of the original four triops.
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