Science Experiments With Sea Monkeys

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Has anyone ever gotten those Sea Monkey kits and grown them? I know these are a selectively bred species of Brine Shrimp (Artemia) to grow larger and live longer than their regular counterparts.

Anyway, I got one of these kits from Toys R Us and decided to try an interesting experiment. I started growing them in the "secret formula"(the water purifier) that came with the kit. However, I took out a little bit of the water in the tank and replaced it with regular sea water I got from the beach. I also added a little seaweed to see if I could put some marine algae in there. Strangely enough, they are doing quite well though I think they are different in appearance than if you had grown them in the regular manner.

I decided to carry this to the next level so I transfered some to another tank. This time, it is entirely seawater with some seaweed and shells that I put in there. So if I let them grow and breed in that environment will these domesticated forms revert back to their wild forms?

I have never experimented with aquatic life forms....But some of your methodology leaves much to be desired....
Whenever you conduct an experiment be it biological, mechanical, electrical, or chemical, it is important that only
one parameter or variable is changed at a time. It seems you are changing several parameters simultaneously.

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