Product Description

Hatch living creatures from the age of the dinosaurs and see how your Triops double in size each day. Triops hatch in 24 hours, can grow up to 4cm long and have an incredible life cycle. You may also hatch other creatures such as Clam Shrimp, Fairy Shrimp and Daphnia. Don't forget these Triops are guaranteed to hatch! 7 Years +

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4935 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Interplay UK
• Dimensions: 1.54 pounds

Features

• Allows children to grow pets from the age of the dinosaurs
• Eggs guaranteed to hatch
• Spare parts can be ordered so product can be used again and again

Manufacturer's Description
Wild Science are a range of science kits with real attitude! Triop World is a popular product for all age groups. Hatch living creatures from the age of the dinosaurs and see how they double in size each day! Triops hatch in 24 hours, can grow up to 4cm long and have an incredible life cycle. You may also hatch other creatures with your Triops that may include Clam Shrimps, Fairy Shrimp and Daphnia. Don't forget these Triops are guaranteed to hatch! Recommended for children aged 7 years and over. Contents may vary slightly from those shown

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Customer Reviews

A Tribute to Chompy
Is it possible to become emotionally attached to a kill-crazy cannibalistic worm that looks like a facehugger from the Alien movies and spends most of its time attempting to eat its siblings? Having recently shed a tear while burying my last one - Chompy - in the back garden, I'd say yes. These little beasties inspired fear and disgust in my girlfriend, but to me they were true friends.

How could I forget the way Chompy used to play with his smaller brothers, chasing them around their tank for hours on end? Every couple of days, one of the brothers would vanish completely, and Chompy would do an extra-long poo to show how much he missed them.

After about 30 days, Chompy disposed of the final, equally large brother - Ripley - by eating him from the tail up. I caught the two of them playing on the bottom of the tank - Chompy had Ripley's face in his mouth, and was munching away without a care in the world. The rest of Ripley was nowhere to be seen.

Heartbroken, Chompy only lasted another week after that. For a while, he ate his fish pellets and bits of carrot as normal, but a triops is only half a triops without his playmates. Eventually Chompy turned green, and the end was nigh.

Would I repeat the experience? Maybe, but next time I would have to steel myself for the inevitable tragic end. Triops might not live long, but they've got personality. And they eat Sea Monkeys for breakfast.

Poor Fatty
Its simple really, you get a packet of eggs that look like tobaco, and you pour half of them in some natural mineral water that should be inside the inclded bowl.
Wait 24 hours and half the eggs should have hatched, your told not to feed them for the next 48 hours as they will eath the eggs. When there first hatched its hard to see them but you can see little tiny white tails swimming around, and lots of them!
Soon after 48 hours they should now be clearly visable and you can now feed them with your food that was included.
One of them was huge and I decided to name him Fatty, unfortanatly even when there is enough food the Triops love to eat eachother, I remember after 5 days seeing Fatty nibbling one of my Triops, I did get quite a shock seeing as he always played with them, guessing he loved to play eat tag!

Soon they die however you still have half a pack of eggs left so you can enjoy the fun again.
I recomend this product and children would love it, my son absoultly loved them.

Short-lived but fascinating creatures
This kit allows you to hatch and rear specimens of Triops longicaudatus, the longtail tadpole shrimp. You simply follow the instructions in the kit (it's basically a case of adding some dirt which contains the eggs into a pot of water and putting it somewhere warm and light) and the T. longicaudatus soon hatch and start growing at an almost alarming pace. The relatively short life cycle makes it an excellent teaching aid for teaching anything to do with growth and development. T. longicaudatus are fed on small pellets of fish food or diced vegetables but can (and invariably do!) eat one another. After a few weeks, you're eventually left with just one very large specimen who has eaten all of his or her brethren. Although the triops don't live for very long (6 weeks or so), they're quite low maintainance and can make a good first pet to help you see if your child would be able to cope with something a bit more long-term, such as fish. Given the short-lived nature of the triops, I don't think I can justify the price of the kit, so it's not going to get a very high overall rating from me, but in terms of educational value and fun, it's excellent!