I always wanted Sea Monkeys as a kid. I never got them, so I suppose this explains my fascination with them now.
I accidentally ran across the kits at Toys-R-Us and just had to have some. I started with the ever familiar Ocean Zoo tank that included the water purifier, egg packet and a one year food supply. I followed the instructions exactly, and after 24 hours of dumping in the egg packet I began to see tiny babies swimming around in the jerky movement that the newborns seem to do.
I was so excited that this actually was working, that I went back and purchased two more kits. One of them hatched perfectly just as the first one had, but the other never had any progress at all which was of course quite disappointing.
I waited until my first tank reached two weeks old, while the second successful tank were still small babies.
Then I decided...why keep these cool little creatures in such a small space that needs constant manual aeration? So, naturally I went and purchased a one gallon tank, air pump, bubble stone and a decoration for the tank.
Since the tank was so much bigger I then had to purchase three more packets of water purifier which had to sit for the normal 24 hours. I made sure the temperature in this new tank was the same as my small Ocean Zoo tanks. At this point I dumped the contents of my first tank in, followed by the second and then topped off the tank with purified water.
I was afraid this may have been a mistake, as I wasn't sure if the babies would survive the transition though I was confident the juveniles would have no problems.
To my surprise, each and every Sea Monkey made it just fine and thrived!
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