Hi all
The youngest got sea monkeys for a present at christmas ,we have purified the water and added the monkey powder ( or whatever it's called :D ) and .............................nothing ,not a baldy thing!!!!!!!!
Not a monkey to be seen !!
Does anyone know where we can get more monkeys ( kc of course :D )
HELP Please !!!!!!!!;)

Liz :)
Edited to say : we know all about the ones in the zoo Etc Etc Etc !!!!!

Hi,
I believe you have to wait a few days before you can actually see the aforementioned monkeys as they are microscopic, and you dont feed them for a few days or something. There is a web site for them, think its on the packaging

Liza

yup wait a few days there will be loads soon, son had them for birthday pressie a few months ago... :D also when it looks like they have all errm gone to sea monkey heaven, wait a few more days and waaaaaa laaa more sea monkeys :D

bye for now
Lynsey

yes my daughter had them to, i agree with the others wait a few days and you will see quite a lot

Sorry to ask but WHAT ON EARTH ARE SEA MONKEYS???????.
Nina

they are actually little water fleas and such like, kids get them in kits as eggs, hatch them in purified water in a tank and then there you have them sea monkeys to look at

Lynsey (sea monkey supremo)

I was always told and read that sea monkeys are Brine Shrimp, good food for raising young fish like baby guppies, black moors ect. I had sea monkeys when I was young, they only lived a couple of months. Then just got newts and fish.
ttfn :)

Yep, I learned they were "Brine Shrimp" also :)

Morning -yes they are brine shrimp but we still havn't got any :(
apart from a few bubbles and a couple of dog hairs ---Nowt !!
We'll wait a bit more !
Morning sara !:)
Liz

I am amazed the animal rights lot haven't got onto this yet!!!!

well mine were water fleas. they hopped around the water tank
(am wondering now whether I did these monkeys right) were they supposed to be shrimps or are there different sorts, these were little things hoping and skipping :D around tank, looked nothing like anything that could be described as a shrimp..

Lynsey (ex sea monkey supremo)

ROTFL sam

:D

give them time, give them time probably cracking their knuckles right now getting reading to type

<<<I am amazed the animal rights lot haven't got onto this yet!!!!>>>

Especially when they hear how my son (he was about 7 at the time) thought it would be fun to feed his pet sea monkeys to my fish!!! :rolleyes: :p

ROTF! sounds like two little boys I know (if they had the chance)...ahem!

Ok confession time.... I use to breed water fleas and brine shrimps as live food for my tropical fish, Ingrid

Me too Ingrid ....and just to get 'em really going ..I used to feed goldfish to my Oscar ;)

Melody

Oh dear, what did I start? ;)

Jacqui (who used to breed her own shrimp, too! :p

'SAVE OUR SHRIMP!"

Oh, Good Lord, I can just imagine gangs of balaclava-clad, baseball-bat-wielding Ninja types going round emptying jars down sinks.

Boggla boggla boggla :D
Can't type any more!

Snorri
Twilight Zone Hysteric
:D

I used to raise brine shrimp for my marines!
Bec

Deerrrrrrrrrrrr Deeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
we've got monkeys !!!!!!!!:D
In a frenzied mass session of spawning we are now the proud parents of a zillion sea monkeys ( maybe i should move this thread to the breeders section :D
At the moment they are just sort of suspended but I have every confidence that we shall soon have a band of all singing all dancing sea monkeys :D
Liz ( mother to monkeys -land and sea :D )

" maybe i should move this thread to the breeders section "

Only if they have had all the necessary health checks Liz ;)

But if you're looking for prospective owners to take any of the gazillion off of your yer hands ---- you better not post anymore !!!! ;) :P :P :P :D
:CooL:

reminds me of popping to my sisters house once-after fighting through the rotts and the lhasa, i heard "for gods sake, whos spilt the monkeys all over the kitchen floor" -hurry up and save them-yikes, id not ever heard of them before that :D

Hooray! Hope they are doing everything that the booklet says they will; mine never did :-(

I bought a kit a couple of years back and had them keeping me company on my desk at work, they were in the castle dome tank, then I had a couple of days off and while I was away, tragedy struck - a colleague thought they were a snow-storm and picked the tank up and shook it; DISASTER! My friend who had been looking after them had to mop them off my desk! The rest lived ages though :-) - but I never managed to teach them tricks like the booklet says you can.

Hope you have thought of enough names for them all :-) :-) and can tell them apart :-)

i always thought that my dad was having a laugh when he spoke of sea monkeys,but when i saw a kit in mothercare i bought him them as a gift.he was well chuffed.i also got a doulble kit for my kids,there were sea monkeys and triops.the water in the triops turns to a green sludge and it stinks,you cant clean it out cause you would pore them away,you can top up the water but i found this ineffective.the advantage of the triops is that they are a lot bigger a lot quicker.i shant be getting more,it is the same as fish with kids the novelty wears off quickly.
mel ;)

I had some very prolific guppies that used to feed the bigger fish, I started separating the pregnant females but there are only so many guppies that you can pass onto friends !!!!!! Ingrid

Have u put a bright light on them, they are pretty tiny and hard to see for the first bit. If u did all ur packages right and never squeezed them I'm sure u should have little sea monkey/brine shrimp soon.
ttfn :)

Hee hee - yes they all have names and we've put a blob of nail varnish on their toes so we can tell them apart :D
I've put paper at one end of the tank but they just have no idea about the house training !!
we thought abot a crate but they just swim through the bars ,
Today i'm going to try them out with collars and leads ( can't go out yet ,no jabs :D )
we are going to do agility with them, bit like that michael Benteen(?) --Potty Time ( Snorri --help me out here ,please ;) )
now --what to feed ........complete or raw ???????
more dilemas...........:D :D :D
Liz :)

Liz, daaaaaalink, have you had enough sleep lately? It sounds as if you're 'losing it' over an aquarium ;) :D :D
I'm definitely bleary eyed and not-bushy tailed this morning, that's for sure :rolleyes: ;)

morning Sara
I daren't venture on to any of the other topic boards !!:rolleyes: :D
Liz :)
are you going next door ??

OOOOOh, morning cuppa and a friendly how-do???? :D :D
Porquoi Pas? Naturellement - Naturlich :)

Okay....You haven't taken your pills today yet have you honey ?????????? :p
Go take them NOW !!!!!!!!

xxxx

:D :D ;)

Bethie,
We're waiting for you to pour!!!!!!! ;) :D :D

Bethie,
Come out, Come out wherever you are!!!!! ;)
Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Bethie right over :P :P
We're bleary eyed, waiting, and crazy for yooooooooooooo :)

:p heee!

Julieann

congratulations on your babies Liz ;) :D
SO what are the names? boys or girls :D Weights etc?
c'mon tell all
Ali

LOL :D

What !!-and end up with another thread of 200 plus posts --people clamouring for pictures etc :D
I'll respect their privacy ;) :D
Liz

Congrat!!! Now u sound like a bran new happy parent. Don't over feed them :) :) :) How old are they now?
ttfn :)

Morning all !!
our lovely bundles of joy are now 3 days old :) and are starting with their first words-Of course it's hard to tell what they are saying as it's all bubbles :D

I thought one was saying 'mmmmmmama' but steve said it was 'let me out ' and the eldest thought it was 'OY What you lookin at ' so who knows ???
So far no problems with dominace issues who is top prawn and the feeding is going swimmingly :D

we did have a few upset faces last night as him and me sat down to evening meal of pasta with prawns but a well placed t-towel did the trick and saved them from further distress
I shall keep you informed of their progress :D
Liz

Sea monkeys aree actually like brine shrimp, I breed them, they are amazing creatures!

Hi rudy and mum -Unfortunatley our all died :(
So I'm waiting to locate a supplier near to us for some more
liz

Liz ..you can buy them online ...Here. Also , if you do a Search and type in UK+Sea+Monkeys ..quite a lot of interesting pages come up ;)

Melody

Aw, that's too bad. Sometimes when you first start, you get a faulty batch. They all have broken spines due to heriditary problems, there are some great sites to visit for them. I am not sure how to post address's without getting my post banned, so if you e-mail me I will send them to you. Best of all, they come with a gauruntee, so a new batch is free!

Melody - thankyou for the link:)

Rudysmum -Thankyou for your kind offer I may just take you up on that :)
I shall have a sqizz round the sites on the link and see what i can find
Liz :)

you can buy them in mothercare and toys r us,in many different tanks space ships etc!!!
mel

I think this thread is the most fun one Ive ever seen on Champdogs! May have to go and find some for my son!

Hi my partner says I hope you have had thjem all hip and eye tested,we would
hate to think that you have bred genetic problems and have carefully checked
out their new homes :-D :-D

Briony