Product Description

Bring your Sea Monkeys into a world of fantasy with a Magic Castle. Aquarium contains magnifier to closely view the environment. It includes water purifier, instant live eggs, growth food, and plasma iii, illustrated instructions, feeding spoon and aqua-leash. It is really easy to care for pets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4115 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Schylling
• Model: 6608
• Released on: 2008-06-01
• Dimensions: 5.50" h x 7.50" w x 4.75" l, .60 pounds

Features

• The original, amazing live sea monkeys
• Special Sea Monkey aquarium has pink castle on the bottom
• Aquarium contains magnifier to closely view the environment
• Tank is about 5.50" tall
• Your Sea Monkey pets may live up to two years

From the Manufacturer
Bring your Sea Monkeys into a world of fantasy with a Magic Castle. Aquarium contains magnifier to closely view the environment. It includes water purifier, instant live eggs, growth food, and plasma iii, illustrated instructions, feeding spoon and aqua-leash. It is really easy to care for pets.

Customer Reviews

Fun and exciting for your inner (or actual) child
I bought this for my boy and I to "hatch" while staying at the lake this year. Even after the novelty wore off he still likes to check in on his sea monkeys sometimes, and they need so little maintenance at this point they're always waiting. I think one of them is actually "pregnant" (I *think* the big dark spot near the tail is an egg sac...) which is fun too.

The plastic billowy thing included is an aqua leash. For the first weeks after hatching your sea monkeys you will want to use this to blow bubbles into the water (maybe 10-15 times) every day. It is *not* the million bubble pump that only needs 1 blow to aerate the water. If you're doing this with a kid they'll probably get a kick out of blowing the bubbles themselves. The baby sea monkeys need this air badly since at first there is nothing else in the water creating oxygen. It also makes the toy more interactive which is nice because they're easy to overfeed if that's the only way your kid can interact with them. Over time though the water will grow micro algae or whatever that generates O2, which in our case worked out to be about the time the initial novelty had kind of worn off anyway so that was fine- we slowly quit aerating and everything was fine. Now we have 3 big sea monkeys that seem content with the occasional (at best) aeration to supplement whatever flora that is growing in their (which they also eat).

Depending on the age of your kid this toy is either a decent opportunity for education in terms of what the sea monkeys are, what/how they eat, etc or if you have a very young one they can get into imaginative play. If you look online you can even find short "sea monkey radio" episodes where the host interviews a sea monkey character. There is a surprisingly large sea monkey subculture out there actually!

I wish that it was a bigger aquarium tank
I was looking for a bigger aquarium tank. I know that it's just for sea monkeys, but I was
looking for a larger aquarium for them - maybe double this size.
Overall, Sea Monkeys are a fabulous toy. My 11 year old daughter spends tons of time
with them, doing everything herself and observing them a lot. I don't think that
she will ever tire of this (it's been months). Ordering new food and treats for them
in the mail is an added bonus - kids get excited about stuff coming in the mail for them
(it could be less expensive though).

Excellent.
I remember these things from when they were in the back of the old Comic books! It's actually almost a challenge to find a kit that has an aqua leash / Million bubble air pump, and i feel this is the best for it's price.



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