"I love sea monkeys" said David. "I love them so much that i am going to turn into one WITH THIS RAY GUN!!!" Poor david turn in to a sea monkey and to the other sea monkeys he was counted as a intruder and was put into a jail. They used as a servant and was to work for the sea monkeys.
THE END!
Tank 1: Up and running for 2 days, Babys hatched 15/05/2007
Tank 2: Packet #1 Just been added - 24 hour wait.
Plan: To take a Male from #1 and breed with #2 to increase the Health and Genes of the Sea Monkey.
Indeedy the second generation should be here soon, they've been at it like.. monkeys?? (lame). Since I was originally feeding them growth food and not grokwickly they took slightly longer to finally begin the mating process and become fuller in the sack. But hey this tank is proving more successful than I first thought after the recent crap with dwindling numbers. But yes I'm confident this tank will flourish and I haven't even done ANYTHING to it for weeks. The algae frowth is spectacular and in both tanks I am seeing bubbles all the time. C ya!
Looks like that oh so helpful algae has started to grow in my ship tank. After 84 days its about bloody time.I'm extremely bored of this tank right now and to be honest it may not even be algae lol, it's kinda brownish could be fungal infection but hey. The little baby I spotted last week is growing and is still doing well. Just hoping there's a SLIM chance that this one is female (hopefully a 50:50) and then it can reproduce asexually giving me a new generation. I still class this tank as alive hehe, soon I'll end up giving you updates on how the bacteria are doing :P
There's a lot of it growing, I haven't touched the tank. They've got food, oxygen and a scenery to die for. I'm letting them get on with it. I think they'll do fine without my input. There are plenty of adults in the tank and I think they'll make it into the second generation perfectly. Not much else to say here as I think this tank has gone really well so far. Bye all and see you someday.
Well it's been a while to say the least, I'm back at school doing a lot of harder stuff that's very time consuming, I haven't had a lot of time for the Sea Monkeys, in fact, barely any at all if I were to be honest. The tanks have just been left there since my last post and they're still doing well. The purpose with this tank was caus of there being only one adult left I was starting to lose hope. And yes, it died. Not due to malnutrition, there is algae growing. There was no lack of oxygen I think I just raised a pretty bad bunch.
But hey, I write with the joy that the tank is yet to go, there are two little babies swimming around which I hope, can survive the tank and keep it going to the big day 100. In the meantime there might be some bacterial stuff in there which Ill be quick to remove if it is. I just don't want to interfere anymore lol. I'll leave you all for now and hope to see you soon!
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!
Well I said I'd be here to tell you about a swarm. This is a really successful hatch and I have the blister card to thank for it. I've noticed on the forums that a lot of people seem to have problems with the packets that come with the mars kit itself but when they use a blister card everything goes fine. I could count around 5 yesterday morning, its now evening here and there has got to be near 30 babies swimming around WOO! I'm so happy I'll be feeding them in two days time (as everythings gone as instructions described).
Ill use this for ship tank again as not a lot to report, some have reached the end of their natural life, damn gro-kwickly haha. I'll definitely open up the normal food for this mars tank. I'll hopefully have a third tank coming up soon but in the mean time see ya. I might start taking some more pictures and videos of both tanks for your enjoyment, see you soon!!!