Cgl and I bought Marcus Sea-Monkey as his birthday present.
Its kind of cool and it existed during my childhood days but well, i didn't get the chance to own them.
Its fascinating to withness creatures hatching from the 'eggs' (apparently its just a packet of powder).
First few days, i see many sea babies swimming around but as time passes by, many died.
And my many refers to MANY.
In fact, only TWO sea monkeys managed to survive to adulthood when there more than 20 eggs.
According to the packaging, its says that Sea Monkeys can live up to 2 years BUT walao! I'm only left with TWO pathetic Sea Monkeys.
From a 2mm tadpole looking thing, it grew to about 1cm with eyes and tails.
The thought of Sea Monkeys reproducing has NEVER cross my mind.
Generic brine shrimps, who the hell will ever thought of them mating BUT TO THE HORROR, i saw baby sea monkeys swimming in the container.
The only source of the babies is definately BIRTH.
As mentioned earlier, i have only 2 adult Sea Monkeys left in the tank but NOW that there are babies swimming around, one of the adult died.
I started observing them this afternoon and i gained some new knowledge!
Sea Monkey is actually one of the species of brine shrimp (don't bother asking me what is brine shrimp because i don't know what's that)
Sea-Monkeys can reproduce both sexually (requiring a male and a female) and asexually.
When the eggs are produced, there are fewer males than females, probably because they are not essential for reproduction.
Females stop reproducing with the males when the males are too few.Alright, all the above is not the main point.
The main point is that I've discovered the difference between male Sea Monkey and female Sea Monkey!
I discovered it based on my own observation and not from internet research ok.
The male Sea Monkey has got erm.. balls while female Sea Monkey doesnt have.
The most amazing part is that ermm.. its balls are bigger than its eye balls. LOL!!!!
Now that I've got my phone back!
PICTURES OF MY MALE SEA MONKEY!
AMAZING isnt it?
The baby Sea Monkeys are those tiny white little tadpoles.
Doubt you guys can see them from ur monitor.
Come to tink of it, its kind of gross.
OFF TO WORK~
BYEEE~
I am 100 times cuter when i was young than what I am now.