Triops and distilled water

[poppiesinaline]

Firstly, what is distilled water?

Secondly, has anyone bought any of these Triops creatures. You hatch the eggs out and they grow into these things! Bought some for DS (his birthday today). Asked in the shop "Is everything I need all included in this box" "Yes" was the answer. "So, I will not need to get anything else to do this?" "No" was the answer. GRRRRRR Need distilled water and a heat light!!!!

i think distalled water is water that has been boiled to steam and then condensed (cooled) back to water again

This is a thread dear to my heart. No - distilled water isn't cooled, boiled water. It's demineralised or something, and you can buy it was battery water from Halfords. We got DS some for Christmas, but I don't think we warmed the water up enough, as absolutely nothing happened!

Oh no. I have a feeling this is going to be one present I wish I had never bought!!!!

We have some and there dead easy to look after.

I filled a measuring jug up with the required amount of water, put in the powder stuffand left for 24 hours. Thats what it said to do on the box anyway.

We've had them for 3 months now and there breeding an growing like nobodys business!

whats the diffrence between distilled and deinoised water?

i thought deionised water had the minerals removed?

sorry but here is quiet clearly states that distilled water is water that is boiled to steam then condensed again!

when i googled it founs loads of simialar links as well!

Thats what I did. I have the tank on our kitchen windowsill so the water evaporates quite quickly and I top it up with warm ish tap water and so far so good.

I am getting a little confused now! Nbg - did you just fill tank up with tap water or did you boil the water first and let it cool down. Or if distilled water is the steam that has gone back to water how on earth do you do that? Help me someone!!!!

Sorry - I read your post as cooled boiled water, Nanny - which it isn't!

I think it would be a lot easier if you just bought some battery water than trying to distill your own water . I think I'm going to have another go with these triops - but I wonder if where you live and the water you have has any bearing of the lifespan of the little critters?!

Buying the water is easier and quicker, yes.

I boiled the water, poured the required amount into a measuring jug, added the powder stuff they give you to treat the water, left for 24hrs and added the eggs.

They do like light and I think it says put them near a south(?) facing window (could be north, it should tell you).
Like I said ours is on our kitchen windowsill and on a night it is very near the lights.

They don't react very well to over feeding either.

We just used bottled water for ours and kept a lamp shining on tank to keep temp right. Unfortunately, they all hatched and swam about happily for about a week, then one day they were just all dead! Sorry not much advise for you there.

Ds got some for christmas and we haven't done them yet. I bought some bottled water, but I haven't got a desk lamp...or anywhere to put the bloody things.