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To keep your sea monkeys healthy and ensure that they grow properly, they must be fed correctly. What to Feed Sea Monkeys for Maximum Growth However, they are less likely to reach their maximum size of ½ an inch. Sea-Monkeys can adapt to slightly cooler climates, and colder water does not affect their lifespan. The bowl should be placed where the temperature is relatively constant, so be careful not to position it on a hot window ledge or next to a heater. The best temperature to keep Sea Monkeys is in water at room temperature between 70 – 76F. The growth of these small shrimp will slow down or may stop entirely if the water is too cold.

The temperature of the brine solution that the Sea-Monkeys are kept in will significantly affect their size. Water Temperature Affects the Growth of Sea Monkeys Let’s look at each of these vital factors as they will significantly affect the growth of your Sea-Monkeys.

The concentration of brine in the water as a result of evaporation.

Here are some things that will affect the healthy growth of Sea-Monkeys: Although the life span of an individual may only be a few months, it is easy to keep a colony alive for several years. Once Sea-Monkeys reach their full size of around half an inch, they can reproduce. You may notice that your sea monkey is ready to molt as its color becomes slightly darker just before it breaks free from its restrictive outer shell. The shrimp then breaks free from the tight shell and develops a new covering. They have exoskeletons that become too small. Sea-monkeys molt up to seven times on the journey from a tiny spec of life to a fully grown adult. The eggs known as cysts that go into the brine resemble powder, but the shrimp grow quickly and are fully developed and ready to reproduce within four weeks. This immediate, almost magical, phenomenon is why they were first dubbed ‘Instant Life’ and only later became known as Sea-Monkeys. If your sea monkeys have hatched, you will observe tiny dots swimming against the current. To see newly hatched Sea Monkeys, it helps to put a flashlight against the bowl and gently stir the water. However, they are so tiny that they are hard to see when they first hatch. When you add a packet of Sea-Monkeys eggs to the brine solution, they seem to spring to life immediately. The ratio of salts to water is critical to ensure cysts hatch and continue to grow, so if you are using your own bowl to keep Sea Monkeys, ensure that mixing directions are carefully followed. When using a Sea Monkey kit, the water preparation kit needs to be mixed with specific amounts of water. Unlike some pet fish, the expected size of sea monkeys is not limited by the bowl size that they are kept in, but they may show signs of stunted growth if they are not fed correctly or if the water temperature is too cold. That’s still very tiny, so many sea-monkey kits come equipped with magnifying glass viewing portals on the sides of the bowl to get a better view. Regular brine shrimp are significantly smaller than the half-inch expected length of the hybridized Sea-Monkey shrimp. So a lot of the work on adapting them focused on making them as large as possible.

These hybrid shrimp were developed in the late 1950s by Harold von Braunhut after a rise in the popularity of ant farms.Īlthough closely related to regular tiny brine shrimp, kids wouldn’t be fascinated by pets that they couldn’t see. The term Sea-Monkeys is itself a clever marketing strategy for a cleverly modified form of brine shrimp, called Artemia NYOS. It seems that just everything about sea monkeys has been blown out of proportion, including many claims about their size.Ĭomic books advertising from the 60s and 70s had entire generations of kids believing that they could instantly grow small communities of naked human-like aquatic creatures inside of a fishbowl. But if you know what to expect when you get a sea monkey kit, they can be delightfully entertaining despite their small size. The tiny size of sea monkeys is often disappointing to excited kids who may imagine impressively sized swimming primates. These fascinating creatures start life as minuscule eggs, known as cysts, that appear to spring to life in water. They are sometimes advertised as able to reach an inch in size, but claims are often exaggerated. They look nothing like monkeys, and their popularity has mainly been attributed to some rather creative marketing strategies.įully grown Sea Monkeys are approximately half an inch in length. For health concerns, please seek proper veterinary care.Īs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.-įor more than 60 years’ sea monkeys have been fun, novelty pets.

It is not intended to be used in place of veterinary advice. The purpose of this blog is to share general information and is written to the author's best knowledge.