I have a question. People say that The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys here in Australia are really brine shrimp and since lots of books say that brine shrimp is healthy, why not buy a set and breed your own seafood?

Yes, they are the same. Most LFS sell brine shrimp growing kits just like the sea monkey kits for breeding them as food.

Great! That means that I can buy one of those sachets and have an unlimited supply of fish food if I take care of them well. But they're not freshwater animals, right?

No they're not. They'll die in freshwater in about an hour.

Btw, buying BS eggs from LFS is much cheaper than those kits in toy store.

Yeah, I'm with Riz there, you'll do your dough if you go buying the fancy 'sea monkey' kits, -it's a lot cheaper to buy the brine shrimp eggs and use aquarium or rock salt to salt the water for them.... -Also, you'll get a higher yeild, a lot of the cysts in sea monkey sachets can be years old, -they can survive, but you'll find the yeild of fresh eggs a lot higher and therefore better value for money.. the crazy thing is, it's the same thing, just none of the fancy packaging. That's marketing for you!

Are you sure? I thought the only BS the aquariums sell are the big ones in the bags. And which do you think is better frozen or live?

omg u mean feed them to ur goldfish?

i dont now but that seems really tight they r ment to be sold as pets not pet food

Brine shrimp are great for goldies. A LFS has a tank of them & you can get a scoop for $1. That is really kind of expensive but cheaper & easier than going to the trouble of raising them. I only get by there once in awhile but I always get some. The goldies turn into great hunters chasing them! I think it stimulates them to 'hunt' them.

I really can't imagine keeping a bunch of brine shrimp as pets! They are no where near the little crowned cartoon ones on the sea monkey ad5!! They look more "bug-like" or something! I don't have a problem with the goldfish eating them.

i feed my goldfishes the freeze dried brine shrimp from the LFS as a treat. they seem to love it, but they seem to love any food i give them, including peas and lettuce.

If brine shrimp is really sea monkeys....I feel so cheated. I bought them once last time it said on the box prehistoric blablabla... i must tell my friends. whether or not they believe me><

Yep, they're exactly the same thing. They just market it to uneducated mass-consumerism oriented people (us ) that craves for a low-cost pet that's easy to keep

Yeah,they are.I learned this when I was 10 years old.I got me some Sea Monkeys at the store,and when they got bigger,I was sure that I had seen them in a dictionary,I looked it up,and it was called brine shrimp.They don't look much like those comic book advertisements,do they?Lol.

NOOOO! the uneducated mass-consumerism oriented people don't believe me ...they're gonna continue buying sea monkeys!

I used to keep them as pets.
I had so many I didn't know what to do with them.

I've actualy considered raising them as food, both for my Goldfish and future betta.
Though, mom would tease me about how i'm "Turning on them, and feeding them to the big bad goldfish"

Get a tube of BS eggs from ur LFS, put them (about 1/4 teaspoons) in saltwater (about 4 heaped teaspoons of salt per 1 litre of water, no aeration needed), keep them warm, and show the result to ur mass-consumerist friends in 24 hours

dont tell me they r brine shrimp! that spoils all the fun!

so what happens when u do all that stuff with the eggs?

I used to have sea monkeys Mine lived for about a year I loved those things now I buy them as foooood

They hatch of course. U'll get brine shrimp nauplii (baby brine shrimp) and if u feed them well in a few days they'll grow to adulthood, which are the sea monkeys

ok, so what if i was to go buy one of those serves of brine shrimp which are 2.2o a serve here and want to breed them. I rarely come across the kits and i go in to A LOT of fish stores.

I'd actually prefer to get some blood worms happenin how would i get them reproducin from a $2.20 bag from the pet store, i couldnt imagine any worm bein hard to breed

I think those bloodworms are actually larvae of some kind of winged insect, mayfly/midget or sumtin

Well.....you certainly DON'T wanna raise THOSE!! Oooouuuuu!

What's the best way to feed goldfish live brine shrimp? Do you net the shrimp & dump them with the fish or do you pour some of the salted water with the shrimp?

~Nenn

EWWW i couldnt imagine cos i have heard they do grow into things with wings, ew ew ew!