Sabi

Sea Monkeys/ Brine shrimp of sorts
I'm intrigued by this and when i have some spare money i want to check this out.
Do any of you have these little critters? I'm also curious as to whether fish can eat them?

Lucy

My kids had these when they were little. They were pretty cool to watch.
I forget where I got them, but I know I wouldn't have paid anywhere near that price for them.
Check Walmart or somewhere like that, I know I have seen them recently.
Fish would eat them, whether it's a good idea or not because of the packaging, I don't know.

Martinismommy

Are they really charging $85.00 for the brine? They can't be serious!

Sabi

R85, Thats $28. Still expensive but i'm going to check around if i get it elsewhere.

andy65

WOW and I thought that 5 US for a tube if them was bad!

Lucy

One of these days I'll remember not everything is listed as US dollars, gallons and fahrenheit.
$28.00 is still way too high.

Sabi

Yeah thats the sad thing. Some stuff i get way cheaper than you guys and sometimes i may heck of a more! I'm goingta check how much walmart sells them for.

Angela_96

I remember seeing them in a science musem gift shop w/ the ant farms, etc when we took the kids... way expensive.. I had some "sea monkeys" as a kid...

Steve113

I had sea monkeys once - they're relatively cheap.

I think I paid about £8 ($16) for mine - came with a small tank with small magnifying glass attached (like on bi-focal spectacles).


The eggs are dry and are dormant until contact is made with water. You simply pour in the sachet of eggs and within a few days you have these strange little critters swimming around.

They look like little "fishlike - centipedes"

Fish will eat them - infact I have bought frozen blocks of brine shrimp to feed to my fish as an occasional treat.

- they don't seem as keen on the seamonkeys as they are on the frozen blood worm but it is a nice change.

I wonder if it would be a good idea to dump sea monkey eggs in my fishtank...
- live food.

Might be a great Idea - Any thoughts?

Sabi

What i had in mind was to feed them the live shrimp...