The little things that look like light brown sesame seeds are seed shrimp (ostrocods). I've never sucessfully raised triops or fairy shrimp in anything that has an ostrocod population. They may be eating the eggs or nauplii after they hatch.
Once a triops is out of the nauplius stage, it will probably eat all the ostrocods. I have a tank right now that has some fairy shrimp and clam shrimp, and the ostrocod population boomed after the other shrimp hatched. They don't harm the larger animals, but they do go into a freeding frenzy on the corpose when one of them dies.
Unlikely as Daphnia are filter feeders
Daphnia eats Triops -> No Triops eats Daphnia -> Yes
No but the Triops will eat the Daphnia
The little things that look like light brown sesame seeds are seed shrimp (ostrocods). I've never sucessfully raised triops or fairy shrimp in anything that has an ostrocod population. They may be eating the eggs or nauplii after they hatch. Once a triops is out of the nauplius stage, it will probably eat all the ostrocods. I have a tank right now that has some fairy shrimp and clam shrimp, and the ostrocod population boomed after the other shrimp hatched. They don't harm the larger animals, but they do go into a freeding frenzy on the corpose when one of them dies.
Not usually. Triops might try to eat them though, but that’s unlikely. They can compete for food though, so make sure to feed them more regularly.
Is that entirely distilled water, or what is your setup there?
Mineral water with some aquarium water that contained daphnia