Fairy Shrimp Thailandensis

The media could not be loaded. Why did you pick this product vs others?:I was skeptical based on the mixed reviews, but I think it's pretty clear now that the bad reviews are because of user error on their part. Within 24 hours I have experienced about 85% hatch rate. These are clearly fairy shrimp naupli, all of them. The people that reported daphnia and moina also say they used tank water, well, duh. They introduced those other micro colonies from healthy tank water. I hatched using plain bottle water at room temp. I actually started them in a water bottle at one capsule per half bottle of water and set them in a window that gets only morning sunlight. I added microalgae to the water and I will transfer them into a shallow kiddie pool pond with a planted tank LED for grow out. Excellent product. I absolutely recommend it.

I set up two containers for the eggs to hatch in. Both have RO water and one is under a heat light. It's been 3 weeks and neither has hatched anything.Now, I ran into this with Moina eggs I bought a couple of months ago on Amazon. Over a month in, nothing hatched. I had four containers set up (2 with RO water, 2 with tap. 1 RO and 1 tap under a heat light, the othr two, without).I contacted Green Water Farms and they sent me more eggs. Those hatched within a couple of days without any special conditions. The original eggs eventually started hatching after a month, though not many hatched from the Amazon eggs.I think I'm running into the same problem here. There must be some mishandling of the eggs once they hit the Amazon warehouse. Could be way too hot or something. I wouldn't say too cold because it's recommended that you store them in the freezer. I may contact GWF again over this.05/17/2023Guess what?Still, nothing has hatched.06/30/2023Things started hatching a couple of weeks ago. I say things because I have 1 fairy shrimp and a ton of either Moina or Daphnia. I have one capsule left. I was hoping to raise the shrimp to feed to my juvenile axolotls. I guess that'll never happen.

Second try was successful. Followed directions to a tee. Lots of fun . Attached a pic of my set up. Used established aquarium water and slowly added water to the container after hatching.

Along with fairy shrimp, there seemed to be daphnias or some type of water flea eggs (I'm guessing) mixed in with the fairy shrimp eggs. The shrimp were super at first tiny and over the course of a month didn't get all that much bigger though they did grow somewhat enough to be seen if you really concentrated your gaze close enough to the glass that they were grown in. We fed them spirulina powder. We hatched out the eggs in a quart mason jar to which we we added an airstone set to a low bubble blowing speed. We didn't mind that there was something else that grew from the contents of the capsule that the eggs were sent in because it gave us more to watch in their little habitat bottle. We hatched out these eggs as a food supplement for our bettas. It was fun to watch our bettas chase and eat these tiny swimming beasts that grew out from these eggs. All in all I'd buy this again.

It worked. So cool. Recomend trying a small amount at a time in a few different ways. I had some hatch slightly green water in the warm garage.

They seemed to hatch fine, but be sure you understand that it's not a full-sized box, which out of context in the listing's images is how they look. It's a very small box, and has six little capsules of eggs in it.

Can't confirm if they are thailandensis or not but they hatch.

I'm a very experienced aquarium expert with decades of practice raising fish and shrimp. I set up two different small tanks, good water, air stone, followed the directions perfectly. After multiple tries none of the eggs hatched from multiple purchases I made. Must have been a bad batch or exposed to high heat during transport or something. It was supposed to be a fun project for the kids to help learn with and they're bummed out it was a total failure.