Skye got Sea Monkeys for Christmas. She is taking her pet responsibilities very seriously. We spent quite a bit of time researching these small pets and what our responsibility to them would entail. Not much. Brine shrimp are fairly happy pets. They like their water to be a bit salty and quite a bit scummy. They reproduce very very quickly. One morning Skye checked her brine shrimp and started jumping up and down because she could see little tiny babies swimming around. I told her she was a Grandma and you should have seen her smile. Now we have new babies every day. I think it is turning into a Henry Huggins guppy experience. We are almost out of food and so I have been doing extensive research about what you feed brine shrimp. One website revealed a detailed recipe with a 35 step process that included egg yolk and rolling little pellets by hand and baking. Who knew?! You can't really buy replacement food. Most sites suggest buying a new pack of brine shrimp ($8 amazon). But then we are faced with the moral dilemma- they new pack does come with food but it also comes with new eggs. Do we throw the unhatched brine shrimp away? If we hatch the new shrimp we will have twice the number of Sea Monkeys to feed. And we will need more food.
Maybe we can start our own oolitic sand production plant!
Congratulations to Skye!! :) That sure is exciting!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your moral dilemma...and your food hunt!