The Great Sea-Monkey Project

It's ALIVE!!

As soon as the 24 hours were up, I aerated and then tipped the eggs in.

How exciting! They're not just eggs - they're instant, live eggs!!!

I was a bit shocked that the egg powder had green food colouring in it.

I stirred with the leash until most of the powder was gone - there are still little bits of undissolved green colouring floating around. As a result my tank is now a lovely green colour.

Here's a closeup of the inside of the tank - don't you agree that the green mist gives the tank a nice atmostphere? ;)

I looked really closely and to my surprise, actually did see some baby monkeys wriggling around. It took a while to spot the first one, but once I knew what they looked like it was easy to see the rest!! They are the little, white, comma-shaped dots that wriggle and jerk around in the water. The other particles just drift, but the monkeys wriggle!

I tried to take a video of the newly-hatched babies, but they are so small. You can download a short excerpt of that video here if you'd like - the baby is in the center of the screen, and near the end of the movie a bigger baby swims into view from the top right corner. Remember that they are a bit hard to see though.

I spent half an hour staring at my tank just now, and noticed that most of them seem to be congregating in the crater at the bottom of the tank. Maybe that's where the food is? Hmmm.

They are supposed to be much bigger and easier to see tomorrow, so I'll try to get a better picture of them!

Posted by Denise at April 13, 2003 07:13 PM | TrackBack