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@@danielgreenberg4751 Yes, the battery can be easily removed and swapped (you will have to power off the vacuum, then swap the battery). Batteries can be changed on or off the vacuum. If charging on the vacuum, it will display the current battery charge (0-100%). If charging off of the vacuum, there is a little LED indicator on the battery itself to show if the battery is finished charging (i believe it's red or blue blinking, i don't remember)

@@713poloro When first turning on the vacuum with the button, it enters auto mode. Pressing the top button then changes it to [low, medium, high, then auto] and the cycle continues when pressing the top button more

@@AllHailSeizure90 The goal was to remove the mites by washing the mealworms, then keeping the mealworms in a washed container with (treated/microwaved) little to no media, so it stays dry and not moist. The mites love moist places. I've heard good things about split peas though, i would give that a try if you want to speed up the process. Using Vaseline is a good idea to prevent mites from crawling into the container. Best of luck with your worms

@@diy-projects gotcha' My whole computer desk, monitor, headset, etc had been infested a few weeks ago (looked like dust and nearly didn't realize at first) since the worms were on said desk, but I managed to eradicate them by sanitizing everything 3 times a day for about a week. I imagine it would not have been quite as successful if they had some form of food and moisture as you are suggesting. I'll continue monitoring the container for a few days and go from there. Thanks for the video and quick reply 👍

I am glad you found this helpful! Best of luck with your projects!

@@bongjamesbong00420 triops almost always lay their eggs in the sand dishes, i don't have experience with fairy shrimp so I'm not sure if they just scatter them all over. Many fairy shrimp eggs are also much much smaller than triops eggs, but i think the same method would work, assuming all eggs end up in the egg bin within the fish tank

@@diy-projects thanks for the quick response

@@diy-projects I've been searching for answers on to keep a sustainable population of fairy shrimp with no success

@@bongjamesbong00420 fairy shrimp are a bit different than triops, they feed off of algae floating in the water while triops eat mainly solid foods. I think you could make a sustainable tank by doing similar methods as this, and removing sand every so often, and trying to hatch more. With fairy shrimp, do not use a filter, and only use a bubbler, keep the lighting high to grow algae and they should be happy with that environment

I found another video that said pea flour kills the mites but doesn't harm the mealworms. I haven't tested it yet but I plan to.

Prevention for me has been trying to keep them dry with minimal substrate. I have heard that adding pea flower to their substrate deters the grain mites also. It is definitely do-able to get rid of them, but it sure aint fun

@@gtibbot Thanks 🙏

Nice job bro. I Didn’t even notice my cleaning tool had a blade.

What is a triop

How long did you put them in for? Most insects can be waterlogged for quite a while and then come back to life and be just fine. Ants for example can be submerged for up to a day and then be fine once dried out. I guess that the temperature of the water also matters, was it room temp? Hot water would likely kill them.

@diy-projects as my other comment states, within five minutes many of them died when I tried your method. The water was room temp, but I'm giving them some time to see if they are just waking. Some of the dead looking ones did start moving, but many of them are still very dead looking.

@@NØVA-ARTZZS It may take hours to a day for them to come back "to life". Some that are not strong enough may die (although a very minimal amount in my experience), but this was personally a better outcome than all of them being infested with nasty grain mites. Be patient and best of luck with your colony 😊🙏

@diy-projects thank you. After waiting, only one of them died but they still have grain mites, I don't know what to do, I isolated the ones that had a large amount from the ones that I didn't see any or very minimal and am keeping them away from oats and moisture, will they die on their own, or will they just kill the beetles for moisture?

If you dont collect the eggs, the chances of them hatching in the large tank is low. A dryout period is almost always needed. Them surviving in the big tank is low chance, since the babies do better in small mostly stagnant tanks. The water current from the large tank makes it hard for them to swim and find food. I have had some babies hatch in my main tank before and survive to adulthood but it's very unlikely to occur. The most usual time for them to hatch spontaneously is after doing a large water change or turning the light off for a few days then back on, an environmental trigger is needed for it

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well it took until the late Devonian to get this bauplan, so a few good hundred million years separated

Almond leaf is best, then Oak leaf is 2nd best. Besides that, I'm unsure of other good kinds. They really like eating aquarium plants like Amazon frogbit and duckweed though

Thanks for your thoughts. A few cycles of sifting has allowed the sand to be fully filtered so there are no more sand particles that fall through the mesh. The other stuff that falls through is dried debris from the tank water, smaller than the eggs. But this is more difficult to remove. One possible way is to get a more fine mesh to let the dust fall through

Hey. I bought the display case at the store called dollar tree. The bottom and top tiers where the egg containers sit are 3d printed. The eggs sit to dry for ~2 weeks before extracting. I additionally put a small packet of absorbent silica packet inside the center of the display. After 2 weeks, they will hatch as normal. But without fully drying out, there will be a lower hatch rate. Interestingly, sometimes eggs don't need to be dried out, they can spontaneously hatch wet if the water conditions change quickly.

@@diy-projects Thank you for those tips - that's very useful when figuring out a sustainable source of shrimp. I've started hatching brine shrimp and found it's basically a monopoly on purchasing their eggs. And preparing sea water is another cost that isn't sustainable, so perhaps fairy shrimp and triops will be a better option long term. Thanks for these very informative videos!

That would probably be fine. Personally I would do both, as I saw no negative affects on the mealworms when soaking them in water for a short period of time, and that better separates the grain mites because they likely float while the mealworms sink

@@diy-projects I am going to give this a try tomorrow as Im doing the split pea flour but my baby colony is being smashed by the mites and I figure I either wash them or I throw them out into the paddock over a few days including the bedding and let my chickens eat to their hearts content. It’s been crushing to realise tonight just how many mites are actually in this one bin which I am sure populated when I sifted the frass to get out the little meal worms that had be born in the frass bucket. Ive already decided that from now on Im not keeping the frass for weeks to wait and see if babies are born Im just going to put it out into my gardens and not withhold it for so long. Rookie mistake but completely self taught and this was after the pet shop told me that the meal worms would all be sterile and not pupate nor turn into beetles or lay eggs.

Yes you can add it after hatching but I would only add a small bit every so often so the babies are not shocked from adding this material to the water

@@diy-projects I heard eggshell does not dissolve in water, I added a small square yesterday evening and the triops are fine this morning, I added 6 drops of mineral water and I will add 6 drops this evening too

@@diy-projects btw i also had 2 babies die from failed molts which is unusual. Their spirulina food apparently has iodine and I also hope to remineralise the water to also get some iodine in there quickly

They would probably eat it, but my concern is trying to make it sink. Usually triops search for food along the bottom of the tank, not much the top. Most insects float for quite a while. By the time they sink, they will likely have internally rotted

Glad you found it helpful. Best of luck with your project!

The rack I used was cut to size at about 20 inches by 36 inches, but this will change depending on the size of your drum and height desired. I recommend measuring it out before you purchase a rack. The racks I used were left over from shelving used in our pantry, but it works well inside the sandblasting cabinet when cut to size. Best of luck

I'm glad you found it helpful 🙏

Glad you found it helpful. Best of luck with your project!

@@diy-projects Well, I surrendered for the time being and just bought a cheap desktop blast cabinet on sale. The weather has been non-stop miserable, and I couldn't work outside. Still, I'll be doing this project once I've cleared out enough clutter in the workshop to do it inside. :)

I would try to set some 'traps' in addition to what you're doing. Place some wet substrate in many places in the room, allow the grain mites to enter the substrate then once you see some, microwave the heck out of it to kill them all, and throw it away. Keep doing that and you can capture a good amount of them pretty quickly

@@diy-projects that sounds good I’ll give it a try thank you 👍

Yes unfortunately triops are very hungry critters so when it comes to food and will pretty much eat anything they can get a hold of, keeping them well-fed is essential especially towards the beginning. It's also important to not over feed towards the beginning. It's a hard balance

Best of luck! 🙏 Still no mites for me after doing this!

Bake your wheat bran or oats in the oven You can look up how to do it There’s some good videos on RUclips aswell Just keep an eye on it and stir a good few times during

I would start by making a separate tank with baked/microwaved oats to kill the mites and then take the adult crickets, wash them off quick somehow with water to get the mites off, and then add them to the new tank. Keep the substrate sparce until you're sure the mites are gone. Keep 2 separate tanks till they all turn to adults and move them to the 2nd tank. That's my best idea for crickets, hope something works for you

Got rid of them and my crickets are safe :)

Normally, I have been taking out the sand dish every 2 weeks, so i get multiple of egg batches and can hatch more in stages. Occasionally, you can trigger a spontaneous hatch if you leave the lights off, drain the tank of most of the water, wait a few days then add fresh water back, turn lights back on. It has worked for me a few times in the past.

I used basic clear scotch tape, it didnt seem to cause any issues for the triops. The holes and tape are not strictly required, as you can also acclimate them by transferring water back and forth to/from the hatchery/maintank manually with a pipette, but regardless, i highly recommend acclimation with whatever chosen method

I used basic clear scotch tape, it didnt seem to cause any issues for the triops. The holes and tape are not strictly required, as you can also acclimate them by transferring water back and forth to/from the hatchery/maintank manually with a pipette, but regardless, i highly recommend acclimation with whatever chosen method

Although there is no exact time, I recommend drying them for at least 2 weeks before trying to hatch them. That way they will be sufficiently dry before rehydrating them. Rehydrating them too soon may not yield a good hatch rate

Hello, If you dont collect the eggs, the chances of them hatching in the large tank is low. A dryout period is usually needed. Them surviving in the big tank is low chance, since the babies do better in small mostly stagnant tanks. The water current from the large tank makes it hard for them to swim and find food. Small tanks still need to be aerated daily with a pipette or something similar. Adults rarely eat eggs, but will eat the babies if they can get ahold of them. Overpopulation of the triops during their medium stage will lead to them likely eating eachother, it's difficult to keep more than 12 in a 10g tank and requires constant feeding to keep them busy and happy. Its possible and ive done it before but it's not super easy

@@diy-projects 💙 Thank you so much for the info. My 11 year old son decided to try to hatch these (I didn’t even know he had these eggs in his room 🙈) …and now I’m trying to make sure they survive. I thought they were sea monkeys, but nope triops. I’ve never even heard of them before. One has already hatched, sure is tiny so far

@@SimplyInspiredbySheena Best of luck with them, as long as you raise one, they will produce many eggs for future use, most of them can make viable eggs asexually. Be sure to not feed for the first few days or they will over eat and can die. I have been waiting 1.5-2 days after hatching to feed algae powder. Provide good lighting to increase algae growth and aerate the hatchery tank a few times per day to increase oxygen. After they molt and start to swim along the bottom, you can feed them crushed solid foods that sink to the bottom. These days, I have been feeding mine shrimp and tadpole pellets, they love it

@@diy-projects 💙 thanks again for the info…now I see about 10 of them but I notice that they all want to hangout near the surface of the mason jar…I’m wondering if the water is too cold because the surface is what’s closest to my light? …I suppose I’ll go to Walmart after school pick up and buy a better light for them

@@SimplyInspiredbySheena when they first hatch they're attracted to light so being at the top is mostly normal. It's just natural because the light orients them. Temps between 72-76f are ideal for triops but they can be okay outside of that range as long as it's consistent temps. I use a heater to stabilize my temps when it dips below that so it helps

Yes, I have heard that is a great method. For me, it was important for them to be gone 100% immediately and this method works great. With split peas I was not certain it would work immediately, I've heard it takes some time to take effect

Thank you!