Sea Monkeys vs. Brine Shrimp

I didn't say this before, but in addition to feeding my fish live minnows, I also feed them Sea Monkeys, see picture above. (Sea monkeys are actually a little less than a centimeter long at adult length.)

You might be thinking, "Sea monkeys versus brine shrimp? What the heck is she talking about?" So I'll explain. The real picture is a brine shrimp. The one above is an illustration of a brine shrimp, fancifully called a Sea Monkey. Sea Monkeys are sold as pets with cute little tanks with castles in them and those whimsical drawings and stuff. Brine shrimp are sold as food for fish, with no tank and mercilessly real photos. I myself raise Sea Monkeys, not Brine Shrimp, because a friend of mine told me that sea monkeys work better. I have no confirmation on this, but Sea Monkeys are what I'm using at the time, and they're working great. So Sea Monkeys work better than Brine Shrimp, even though they're the same thing. Does that make sense? It doesn't to me either. ;)'

So what are brine shrimp? Well, they're these cool little crustaceans in the genus Artemia. I have no clue what the signifigance of that is, but I'll put it up there anyway. Anyway, the thing that makes them so cool is that the brine shrimp eggs aren't like normal eggs, where they hatch over a certain period of time. Brine shrimp eggs can stay in suspended animation for really long periods of time before hatching in the right conditions. And I'm talking decades. I think that's just amazing.
Raising them is just so easy! You just get a kit (sea monkey) and Take out the tank. Then you put *bottled* water in the tank, and add the contents of the first packet, which purifies the water. Then after 24 hours you add the second packet, which has the eggs! After a while you can see these little dots moving around in erratic patterns. Sea Monkey Babies! :)' After about five days, I add a small scoopful of the green packet, (containing food), and a large scoop of the purple/blue packet labeled "Sea Monkey Plasma". This is supposed to make more of the sea monkeys hatch and thrive. Then you add a large scoop of plasma every other week, and a small scoop of the food every couple days. You also squeeze the pump in the kit in the water frequently to oxygenate the sea monkeys. That's about it so far as I know, and for more a detailed version of this, you can just read the instructions. I don't know what exactly is in those packets, but I'm glad it works!

(You may have heard that thing in the Transformers theme song, where they say "Transformers: more than meets the eye! Transformers_ Robots in disguise", well my siblings and I say, "Sea Monkeys: more than meets the eye! Sea monkeys, brine shrimp in disguise!")