Survival of the fittest?!

Triops have survived in this world for 200 million years.

Of the all the eggs that went in, only Cedric hatched, he lasted approximately 3 days.

He should have looked like this

He now looks like this:

I had watched the water for a while to be sure that Cedric had ceased to be, before giving him the appropriate water based funeral.
Daughter was not here to see his sad demise, I am not looking forward to explaining it tomorrow - I guess I will have the finger pointed at me - yes I know food is important for Triops too, but I got rather distracted - whoopsy.