Last year for Christmas, I bought my son some sea monkeys. They apparently come in a sealed package as eggs that are dormant when dry. They come to life when you add water. It’s kind of frieky if you think about it, that a sealed package that sits in a store for years can have something that springs to life inside of it.
This reminds me of the bean seeds in King Tut’s tomb, which after thousands of years, sprouted into living plants. But to me, seeds of plants are different than animal eggs.
The package comes with a container and water purifier package (powder), which you just dump into the water and stir with a spoon. You wait 24 hours before putting the sea monkeys into the container. Don’t feed the sea monkeys for five days. After this time has passed, you add a pellet of food per day into the container. We never ran out of pellets that were included in the package. The sea monkeys grew to maturity and swam around.
Sea monkeys are brine shrimp, by the way, which are crustaceans. It’s fun to raise sea monkeys when you are studying underwater sea creatures.
We filmed our entire experience with these sea monkeys, from the time we opened the package, to when they sprang to life, to when they grew up, to when they mated and had eggs of their own that hatched. Yes, all of this was caught on film, ladies and gentlemen, and I edited the video to 3 minutes:
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