The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Six

On June 1, 2007 · 31 Comments · In Living, Toys

Canopy

Our colony is doing well, with the little creatures being swimming in vertical circles, even darting this way and that. And all we have to do is feed them a tiny spoonful of sachet 3 once every two days.

So, that having been taken care of, I've been taking a bit of time to exercise, going for 4km runs once every couple of days. And when I'm not able to manage a trot - the joints being a bit dodgy and all, I've walked. And I keep wondering why I forget how nice it is to take a walk in spite of the heat and humidity.

And then I remember what I've told myself many many times before. You can either complain about the weather or you can marvel at how a drop of rain feels on the back of your hand. Or in this case, how perspiration beads on your skin the moment you leave your apartment.

Then there are the cats of Chip Bee Gar­dens. They assem­ble on the pave­ments out­side their homes and stare across the street at each other, meow­ing their greet­ings, and wait­ing for the right moment to cat­er­waul and con­gre­gate, because the time is right. Or some­thing. You never know with these cats. But cute, lah. Or when it’s just rained, and the ground is damp, and the smell of rain and rot­ting leaves rise from the asphalt, min­gle with that of dog­gie and cat poo and assault your nose, mak­ing you run / trot a lit­tle bit quicker.

Then you get to the shops, buy what you’re sup­posed to buy, lug the plas­tic bags back to where you came from, turn on the air-con as high as she’ll go, take off your shirt in the kitchen and start mak­ing din­ner, curs­ing that you’ve for­got­ten the gar­lic, even though you wrote it down in your list.

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  • http://www.ozlady.com Stephanie

    ah nature, and ah air­con — although per­son­ally, I pre­fer fans.

    I really need to get out more — thanks for remind­ing me!

  • http://www.ozlady.com Stephanie

    ah nature, and ah air­con — although per­son­ally, I pre­fer fans.

    I really need to get out more — thanks for remind­ing me!

  • keith

    you can get fully grown sea mon­keys from any aquar­ium.
    bet­ter still, get tri­ops! Tri­ops > Sea Monkeys.

  • keith

    you can get fully grown sea mon­keys from any aquar­ium.
    bet­ter still, get tri­ops! Tri­ops > Sea Monkeys.

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    You’re wel­come! Go take a walk!

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    You’re wel­come! Go take a walk!

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    You can buy them from acquar­i­ums? What are Triops?

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    You can buy them from acquar­i­ums? What are Triops?

  • ajipzz

    Eloo there, was won­der­ing if u know where i could find sea mon­key prod­ucts in sin­ga­pore, the ones with­out the tanks. Cos i would like to buy more food prod­ucts sep­a­rately and the air pump. Thanks.

  • ajipzz

    Eloo there, was won­der­ing if u know where i could find sea mon­key prod­ucts in sin­ga­pore, the ones with­out the tanks. Cos i would like to buy more food prod­ucts sep­a­rately and the air pump. Thanks.

  • keith

    sea mon­keys are actu­ally brine shrimps.. sold in aquar­i­ums as fish food. Once my brother decided to be smart aleky and bought a bag of them for me. After plac­ing it in the tank, of course my small ones dis­ap­peared (either can­ni­balised or got hid­den by the fully grown ones).

    Tri­ops are sort of like sea mon­keys but resem­ble horse shoe crabs.
    no frills at all, buy a bag of eggs, and use any small plas­tic tank.
    http://www.triops.com/what.htm
    gonna get a pack soon (had some years ago)..

  • keith

    sea mon­keys are actu­ally brine shrimps.. sold in aquar­i­ums as fish food. Once my brother decided to be smart aleky and bought a bag of them for me. After plac­ing it in the tank, of course my small ones dis­ap­peared (either can­ni­balised or got hid­den by the fully grown ones).

    Tri­ops are sort of like sea mon­keys but resem­ble horse shoe crabs.
    no frills at all, buy a bag of eggs, and use any small plas­tic tank.
    http://www.triops.com/what.htm
    gonna get a pack soon (had some years ago)..

  • keith

    ajipzz.. u can get them off ebay. or just feed them spirulina.

  • keith

    ajipzz.. u can get them off ebay. or just feed them spirulina.

  • http://seamonkeygeek.com sea­mon­keygeek

    Tri­ops are cool but they don’t live as long as Sea Mon­keys and I don’t know of any­one who has got­ten them to repro­duce in their lit­tle tanks.

    I worked in the trop­i­cal fish busi­ness for years, man­ag­ing a store and doing set up and main­tainence of tanks. The brine shrimp you buy at these stores doesn’t seem to live as long as Sea Monkeys.

    Actu­ally, that might be a good exper­i­ment. I’ll set up a tank of each, the aquar­ium ones meant as snacks, and the Sea Mon­key brand (which are sup­pos­edly a high brid). Thanks for the inspiration.

  • http://seamonkeygeek.com sea­mon­keygeek

    Tri­ops are cool but they don’t live as long as Sea Mon­keys and I don’t know of any­one who has got­ten them to repro­duce in their lit­tle tanks.

    I worked in the trop­i­cal fish busi­ness for years, man­ag­ing a store and doing set up and main­tainence of tanks. The brine shrimp you buy at these stores doesn’t seem to live as long as Sea Monkeys.

    Actu­ally, that might be a good exper­i­ment. I’ll set up a tank of each, the aquar­ium ones meant as snacks, and the Sea Mon­key brand (which are sup­pos­edly a high brid). Thanks for the inspiration.

  • http://www.jennesis.wordpress.com Jenn

    Gee.. I did some research on it… They’re not even mon­keys to start with! Some kind of weird organ­ism… But I sup­pose it’s fun to see them mul­ti­ply ya? But there are no where near adorable la!

  • http://www.jennesis.wordpress.com Jenn

    Gee.. I did some research on it… They’re not even mon­keys to start with! Some kind of weird organ­ism… But I sup­pose it’s fun to see them mul­ti­ply ya? But there are no where near adorable la!

  • http://kansha-shite.blogspot.com gilda

    wow. sea mon­keys!!! haven’t heard of those since pri­mary school!

    i’ve been exer­cis­ing recently too. going for train­ings and all. but thsi weather in sinag­pore is crazy. and i totally under­stand what you mean by com­ing home and turn­ing up the air-con!! who­ever it was who invented the air-con, thank you!

  • http://kansha-shite.blogspot.com gilda

    wow. sea mon­keys!!! haven’t heard of those since pri­mary school!

    i’ve been exer­cis­ing recently too. going for train­ings and all. but thsi weather in sinag­pore is crazy. and i totally under­stand what you mean by com­ing home and turn­ing up the air-con!! who­ever it was who invented the air-con, thank you!

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  • http://naeboo.com/ nae­boo

    they will grow balls i tell ya!! and they suck it them­selves!! gah

  • http://naeboo.liquidblade.com nae­boo

    they will grow balls i tell ya!! and they suck it them­selves!! gah

  • Travis

    Hi guys,

    Would appre­ci­ate if any of you can tell me where to get tri­ops eggs?

  • Travis

    Hi guys,

    Would appre­ci­ate if any of you can tell me where to get tri­ops eggs?

  • Travis

    Please email me back skylineon@gmail.com

    Thanks lotss

  • Travis

    Please email me back skylineon@gmail.com

    Thanks lotss

  • Erin

    i was won­der­ing i live in aus­tralia and you CANNOT get sea­mon­key stuff here if you know of a place in aus­tralia please email me (rosey_cheeks_ross@hotmail.com) i am desprate

  • http://whocares Erin

    i was won­der­ing i live in aus­tralia and you CANNOT get sea­mon­key stuff here if you know of a place in aus­tralia please email me (rosey_cheeks_ross@hotmail.com) i am desprate

  • fish­con­nec­tion

    you know you can get brine shrimp eggs and a hatch­ery from almost any trop­i­cal fish store for REALLY cheap and they grow big­ger than the sea horses! Plus, you get like 10,000 eggs from the fish shop vs the few you get from seamonkeys

  • fish­con­nec­tion

    you know you can get brine shrimp eggs and a hatch­ery from almost any trop­i­cal fish store for REALLY cheap and they grow big­ger than the sea horses! Plus, you get like 10,000 eggs from the fish shop vs the few you get from seamonkeys

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