Hi
I got my first sea monkeys yesterday and cant wait to see them all swiming about! :) One thing i am worried about tho is the fact that i didn't get a water pump thing in my set. How else can i oxygenate the water? Ive heard of the tipping to and from other containers but  it sounds like to much hassle. I dont really want to spend £3 on a pump and wait days for it to arrive in the post either. Would an eyedrop thing work? What other simple and effective methods are there?
Thanks for any help! :)

i think i remember from reading a sea monkey booklet that u can just use an eyedrop thing, just squeeze it into the water (remove from water before releasing, or ull suck up the little critters) and do that a couple of times a day. they'll survive perfectly well without a pump :D

Hi Kieran

whats a sea monkey?

Just make sure a darling child doesnt go and decided they need a drink and give them milk!!!!!!!! Oh yep. ?Thats what happened to my sons.
Never did find out what the food was and where to get more from.
Lea :)
(sea monkeys are (I think) little tiny molluscs, You get them in toy shops. Just add water and the hatch, and breed.)

You might like to read through some of these posts from the last BIG sea monkey debate :D :D

Old Thread

:p

Thanks for the help guys! Can u buy the eydrop things in chemists? :S I think i'll try to get one of those. My monkeys cant be seen yet :( I put them in yesterday, so hopefully soon...

Now remember before they breed ensure all the relevant test are done and they have good homes to go to.

I was looking for that thread yesterday :D-It makes me laugh everytime I read it :D

Not good news... Im very annnoyed. I looked after the tank just like it said. On the 2nd and 3rd day of adding them to the water i had quite a few little monkeys swimming around! Very tiny little things. Looking forward to them getting bigger :)... But now  (5th day) they all seem to have dissappeared! Where have they all gone?????!!!! :(

Probably dead...Sea monkeys you buy are just for 'fun' and dont have the proper set up to rear them properly (quite cruel really) - Brine shrimp need quite specific requirements and can get really rather big - salted water is the main requirement (specific gravity of about 1.023,) heat, light and good O2!
Sarah (brine shrimp alliance :D) 

A few years back somebody gave me some as a silly Christmas present but when they hatched my wife said they were more like sea fleas and flushed them down the toilet, perhaps their huge now and eating everything in the sewers LOL.

Steve

Hi Kieran,
  Know what you mean!  Exactly the same happened to my son's - there were loads of them swimming round, then suddenly, a couple of days later, not a sign of one!  Still don't know what happened to them!  We spent just ages peering into this jar of water, trying to see even one still swimming around, but nothing..!
  Hilda

I am annoyed. I spent £7 on them. there is that coupn to get some more for free but that means sending off and adding 60pence. DOnt think i can be bothered anymore :(