If you get your ecosphere going, you should not need to feed the Sea-Monkeys after the original packet is gone. This turns out to be yeast and spirulina. Although the video below suggests you could buy live adults from the pet store (they sell them as fish food) and start with the adults rather than the eggs, that doesn’t sound like as much fun. If you don’t have eggs, than you would probably want to purchase the kit. I found directions for creating the necessary salt-water solution on. This basically turns your purified water into a saltwater base. Maybe, if you are doing this experiment in the summer, you could keep them in an outdoor fountain?) (Triops are considered a natural defense against mosquito larvae. They exist on every continent except Antarctica, although probably not as far north as Minnesota. Triops have existed naturally since the time of the dinosaurs. Similar to Sea-Monkeys, but natural, you can raise Triops with a Smithsonian Prehistoric Sea Monsters Kit. Brine Shrimp (and their hybrid cousins) require saltwater, so flushing them down the drain is unlikely to start a rogue colony in the Mississippi. In this article, we actually worked with natural brine shrimp, but we call them Sea-Monkeys. If man-made Sea-Monkeys concerns you, there are two alternatives. Are they environmentally safe? Have we released Frankenstein’s monster into the world? I couldn’t find that answer, so I’m assuming they are relatively harmless. The more I read about Sea-Monkeys, the more questions I had. They do not exist in the wild - or at least not naturally in the wild. Sea-Monkeys are a man-made hybrid of brine shrimp. Our microscope kit came with Brine Shrimp Eggs to hatch and view. Luckily, the research I had done helped us to know what to do with the kit and when we needed to supplement. Ironically, we actually did have a full kit that came with my daughters microscope set, she had just lost the instructions and didn’t know what to do with the pieces. If you raise brine shrimp, leave us a comment. With some research, I was able to find some information on how to start a Sea-Monkey Colony without a kit. But, I was determined to use what we had, so I dug a little deeper. If you Google how to care for Sea-Monkeys without a kit, most articles will tell you to buy a kit. My teen recently told me she had a batch of Sea-Monkey eggs, but no kit.
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