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she's so wacky!
Topic Started: Apr 4 2012, 04:12 PM (1,337 Views)
MadameZuzelle
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my T.longs. Her name is Bananas*, because look:

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She prefers to be upside down. It's not an oxygen thing, her sister is on the bottom like a normal triops, they have live plants in with them producing O2, a filter is circulating the water, and I do regular changes. She just wears the crazypants in the family.

In that photo she has found a sinking crab cuisine stick on the bottom, picked it up, and is swimming upside down at the surface and eating.

Here she is discovering that THIS FOOD SINKS, DUMMY:

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It's heavy so it's pulling her down, hahaha. but she's smarter than she looks...

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Yep. She's using a floating plant as a hammock. ^_^ :D2:



BNanz & her sister are 29 days old today!!! That makes them officially my oldest triops!! Their moms (Madame Zuzelle & Tink) made it to 27 days, but they were pretty sluggish and unhealthy and lost interest in food by then. These babies are still healthy and happy - eating, digging, egg laying, and "zipping"!

I have to try and get pictures/video of their other 2 wacky behaviors. Bananas also does "leaf impressions" - she will poke the tip of her carapace out of the water, point her caudal furca straight down towards the bottom, and swim like that. Perfectly vertical. She's a nutjob, hahaha. "YOU CANT SEE ME IMZ A LEEEEF."

Pajamas (yes, I named them Bananas and Pajamas) does "NASCAR turns". When she runs along the bottom, she kind of zooms half sideways and does a big "racecar going around a sharp curve" kind of thing. I can't describe it, but it's hilarious.

People ask me how I can tell them apart. Upside down? That's Bananas. Doing racecar turns, or alternating normal walking with super-fast running? That's Pajamas. Should have named her Evil Knievel. :rofl2:


Everyone thought I was weird when I started raising triops. Now my coworkers are fighting over who gets to feed them while I am gone, hee hee!!! :wub:


*If you are confused because you are not American/do not speak American slang - "bananas" is sometimes used as slang for "crazy" or "wacky". I have mostly heard it like this: "That s*$% is BANANAS." :wacko:
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TriopsBeginner
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do you mean pajamas does drifting around youre tank? that must be hillarious to watch ^^
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MadameZuzelle
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She wouldn't really drift, just kind of float in one place up by the surface.

They're both hilarious to watch, I :wub: them.

Now there's just one, though. :cry:
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T. Cancs
oh no :(
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