Sea monkeys anyone

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patoloco

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Maybe you've known them for decades, some may not. I am in the last group.

Yesterday I was doing stuff in the local mall and saw this fancy-ultraexpensive fish store. I started checking what was for sale and saw a "sea monkeys starter kit". I took the box and it said wonders about these creatures that will spawn in front of your eyes and grow and bla...bla...bla.
Inside, there was this pouch of "water conditioner", a pouch of "sea monkey eggs", a dropper and some other things.

After a minute or so, I understood these are some kind od brine shrimp eggs, :rant2: and the price tag was almost 10 times the eggs at a "normal" fish store.

Has anyone raised these overpriced shrimps? What have been your experiences? Would I be bad If accidentally drop a beta or a gourami in someone's sea-monkey tank? :devil: :devil:

So many questions........ .................. ................
 
Classic sea monkeys are brine shrimp. In the past 5 years or so, the Triops have also entered the market. I have never seen triops labeled as sea monkeys, but that may have happened recently as well.

When I was younger, I raised sea monkeys. They were great for a couple months, then they started smelling really bad. The directions don't tell you to change water either, so the water gets pretty nasty, and eventually they all die out.
 
Lol...yeah, I remember those....when I was a little tyke I got a "seamonkey" kit and waiting with baited breath for the friendly little water monkey people to appear....I could watch them eat, play and diaper thier babies.........saddly, they never did show up...all I got were these tiny little things with a zillion legs that strangly resembled the bbs that I now occasionally feed my fish.

Boy, was I disappointed !!
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i had that as a toy when i was a kid ages ago. i'm not sure you want to drop a betta or gourami in the tank since i think the package mix with the egg has salt in it...as its name implies 'sea' monkey. so it's either a brackish or saltwater thing.
 
My kids got a kit as a gift a couple of years ago. Guess who's responsibility it was to keep the darned things alive? :D They're basically just brine shrimp. As Clurin mentioned the instructions don't explain that you need to change the water at all, so they end up all dying...I'm sure that's part of the plan to encourage you to buy more packets of sea monkeys.
 
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the directions mention a "short lifespan" which, in retrospect, says "We are intentionally not giving you all the necessary information so that you kill off your new pets in a couple months and buy more to replenish your stock." :p:
 
Oh my gosh!! Am I the only one that truely loved these little critters when I got them as a 10th yr. Birthday gift? They were my pride and joy. I kept them going for months. My mother and I were having a discussion one day and somehow the tank fell off the table and I threw a fit! My mom felt awful. BUT they do live in a salted mix and the strange thing is I was running out of "Seamonkey food" when the tank fell, so maybe it was better off.... but tragic still for me.
 
I never said I didn't love them :D I just remember the water getting foul and smelling awful, and being the stupid 10-12 year old I was, I didn't think to change the water. I think I also just topped the tank off with tap when it got low.. Oops.

I raised them many many times though, and it was fun every time.
 
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