September 2006 - Posts
Hey this is no death post. I've just been a bit preoccupied lately and have forgotten the most basic of things to do, and that's aeration I haven't done it for the past 4 or so days and I looked at the tank today and there weren't a lot to be honest. I'm guessing it's not just that, the whole survival of the fittest blah blah blah but hey. Anyway it was their feeding day today and I gave them a good 30 pumps so they should be fine for now.
As for the ship tank, my 3 are still growing strong, I haven't got anything to update you on as I haven't looked into the tank properly to see if there are any babies. I gave them a dose of sea medic today so hopefully any bacteria that could kill my adults will go. As far as my next tank (the ocean zoo) is concerned, its money issues at the moment im afraid, so see you all around!!
Three adults, three babies, but will it last? I certainly hope so. One of them must be female, I mean I've seen no mating but one has magically become pregnant (asexually i presume). Anyway yes and the babies seem fine. It'll just be aerating the next few days really. As long as I can keep these 3 adults going while the other 3 babies grow. Then I could have some potential mating on my hands. I still blame the accident personally haha. But hey they've almost survive their full average lifespan (one sea monkey should normally stay alive 2 months).
I thought I'd post today with it being day 50 n all. I'm hoping we can get to 62 (the big 2 month mark) and then if possible the big 100 days lol. My that's thinking ahead. Mars are doing fine by the way. Growing really well, 15 days old now. Anyway I'll get back to you with progress in a few more days time hehe see ya!
I guess I'm silly.. I have a nice thriving mars tank. It's day 11 (tenth day of life) and ive chucked in 3 large scoops of plasma III lol. But hey they all seem fine and this time I've managed to dissolve it quite thoroughly. I'll see the results within the next few days. But yes they seem to be growing finedespite being on normal growth food. Onto 40 pumps a day for each tank now rather than 60 which i know was overboard. I will reduce it to 20 eventually. But yes so the mars monkeys are all fine XD
As for the ship tank, no they're not dead, but it's got to the point where I know exactly how many there are (in other words not good) It's only their 46th day of life, though I'm proud of myself already for getting this far. There are 3 adults and a baby swimming around, there are also a lot of eggs floating but I dunno if they'll hatch. Anyway I'm hoping that for the tanks future there is at least one female amongst those three and one male lol. I gave them a dose of sea medic today to rid of any crap, they'll be fed soon, I think it will go well haha. C ya!
Well I thought you deserved more than a random video lol, so I have a nice chunk to say about my still living ship tank. It was plasma day today and I added one large scoop of plasma and used the pumping motion of the aqua leash to dissolve it in the water. Next time I'll go back to letting it fall to the bottom and letting aeration do it's thing. However without a hydrometer I still don't know whether I'm back to the original salinity or not. There's a pregnant sea monkey and I'm hoping the hatchlings will survive. But that's about it for now, c ya!
I made my first mars video (I have a ship one showing off my sea monkey that used to have 4 eyes lol). Anyway I hope this coding works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNiy_qPwJOg
Enjoy! Hmm youtube makes the quality crap! lol.
Once again it's been a while since my last post, but when they get to this age there really isn't much to say. Yet I should be really posting about the many babies that were born after the pregnancy. I'm afraid thats not the case. Just something must be preventing them from surviving the first few days. There is plenty of oxygen and none of the adults are dieing, there is enough food to go around and that leads me to one thing, salinity.
I know it's a long shot but there were quite a few baby sea monkeys whilst I was away, after the accident a few disappeared but a lot stayed, but I prob lost a lot of salt as well, I don't think I replaced it all and therefore the water hasn't been saline enough for the babies to grow. Luckily enough my official next plasma dosage is tomorrow. So the water can rise in salinity once again and hopefully the adults will mate like rabbits again sometime soon. I fed them today just to let ya know LMAO. Sea medic dosage should be coming up soon also. Bye!
Using the mars post to let you know of an experiment both me and Sea Monkey Man will be doing. I am going to purchase a standard ocean zoo, I will follow the procedures such as waiting 24 hours between packets 1 and 2, but apart from that im going to do NOTHING apart from feed them. No plasma, no sea med, no aeration and so on. It's just when i was younger I never cared and just left the tank to do its thing and it was fine. I want to see if with newer hybrids this can still occur.
Mars tank is fine there are SO MANY. Omg I can't count lmao, but yeah gonna try the feeding method that was mentioned on forums (mixing with water first). But Ill leave you for another day or two c ya!