Belle
2025-08-19 14:31:22
Purchased as a birthday gift for my science loving 6 year old. It came with really good instructions, links to a podcast and great photos. It took a while for them to hatch, but it was fun to watch. Included everything we needed but water!
Katelyn fabrizio
2025-07-15 19:49:05
I got this for my son for Christmas and we set it up the next day. It was simple to follow instructions. We left it alone for a few days then added a little food. A few days later we counted about 5 hatched eggs. I kind of thought that would be it. I looked about a week later and now there are a ton! So definitely give it some time. We keep this in my son’s room where there’s some sun, but not much.
sandy
2025-05-22 11:48:52
I remember this a child and bought for my grands, they love it
Brian Batch
2025-05-13 14:06:08
Unfortunately, the poor shrimp eggs did not hatch. I have not an amateur and am experienced with hatching these little eggs, and followed the instructions to the letter, in hopes to raise them before the New Year for my grandson to enjoy. The shrimp clearly were too old, or stored inefficiently, and did not hatch. This is not an item I can of course replace because I threw out the product, but that is the requirement to get a new item (which I don't want) or a refund (which I do). I would avoid this product.
meredith brooke troutman
2025-03-11 18:23:26
I read a lot of reviews before purchasing because o really did not want to crush the soul of my six year old and have all of these die instantly (like they did) here’s the thing with sea monkeys (brine shrimp) they are very fragile! We bought these during winter and live where it gets chilly, here are some things I learned.Sea monkeys need oxygen , producing bubbles with the wand they provide helps but probably isn’t enough, you can purchase a mini oxygen pump for $10 which I recommend especially when you feed them. I also recommend feeding 1/4 scoop size instead of a full scoop. All of our monkeys died after feeding. What likely happened is they were fed too much, the brewers yeast provided will suck up oxygen from the tank and overeating also kills the shrimp. I’ll be keeping them next to a warm light at night to keep the temp warmer during winter as well. We are doing the other half of the eggs now, hope this info helps! There are so many online resources to check out before starting your kit. Good luck !
Elizabeth Rover
2025-02-06 14:53:37
We listen to Absolutely Mindy most days so we were excited to see this. As a parent and teacher I love how informational (and appealing to children) the directions are and my son loved adding the stickers. Everyone in our family likes to watch the little brine shrimp. This is a quality learning toy.
Stephanie
2025-01-07 18:41:17
This is great I’ve had them before years ago and LOVED THEM, Cool creatures, great first pet for someone looking for something simple, however this one they keep dying and I’ve done everything the instructions say to do I don’t know where I’m going wrong but they’ve died 3x and at this point I don’t know what to do. But it u manage to get this and they live “only a few will live and it’ll get bigger to where u can see it better†they are extremely cool to watch. My review is coming based on all of them dying each time I tried and no have no clue why.
Customer
2024-12-28 20:26:57
Daughter says, grandson loves watching these creatures grow & go around their aquarium. Enough included to grow more, too. Easy to grow, but don’t over feed is her advise.