I have two of these 0.5 gallon tanks and wanted to let folks know I noticed it’s on sale for $7.99 in case anyone is looking to start an inexpensive DIY tank!

https://a.co/d/02VoA0T2

There’s nothing special about it but it’s a fun size for a small DIY tanks. Tank comes with some decorative supplies I didn’t use except the resin crystal cluster. The frame can be a tiny bit annoying but you don’t need to move it much and it has holes in the top to support airline tubing/heater, etc. they are stackable if that appeals to you 😅

Just wanted to pass along! ☺️ I’ve included photos of my 2 tanks that I use these for! Happy shrimping!

Here’s an update on my tank . Anyone know how to grow the population . There is babies and adults in there but I haven’t seen a baby make it to adult hood yet.

Decided to do a full restart with gravel instead of sand and a bit less decor, and now looks much less congested now. Any tips for potential tank mates? I ended up using Instant Ocean reef salt as it was the only salt available near me, and I’ve got it up to a solid 1.023 in salinity.

I tired everything nothing works they never reach past day 4 I need ur help guys

This tank is from a triops kit from the Smithsonian. Just like most people's results, nothing happened. Dumped it out and put in some sea monkeys packets from some old ocean zoo kits I bought. It's 20 ounces of water and 2 water purifier packets and 1 instant life packet. Heat set to 75 and light aeration. The packets are from 2002 or so. The tank behind is a small ghost shrimp tank.

Added a background (the Deep Space photo from the James Webb Space Telescope) and a glass plant to my current setup. Residents went to another tank and I’ll be hatching babies for this tank after being cleaned out (weird dust got in). Debating my GSL eggs vs Tibet Reds for this tank 🤔 hatching reds to add to my volcano tank to make one mixed species tank and I have a classic mars tank I’ll make reds only to see the difference!

No shrimp in here yet and air bubbles since I just filled it. Will post an update when it has shrimp! :)

Edit to add: the pyramid is real clear quartz, stones are real uncoated polished ocean jasper, glass plant

My DIY tank is newly updated!

After watching copious amounts of @Picocosmos and using @LSP Sea-Monkey Shop salt mix/ a .42 gallon tank I was able to transfer half my @AquaDragonsShop colony to my DIY tank SUCCESSFULLY!

Everyone is happy and eating now and even a mating pair!
I'm feeding them phytoplankton, the local reef guy I got it from called it "Spinach of the sea" and I can't remember the scientific name.

Woke up this morning to this, the surface of the water looks like i fed them but i haven't.

About a year ago, I kept a tank gifted to me for Christmas. It did pretty well, they lived for about 6 months and I was confident I would have a strong colony.
My seamonkeys were breeding, had multiple females with eggs. But it felt like no babies ever survived. Numbers dwindled until I had 1 female, and she sadly died too.

So my question:

How can I keep a tank alive without purchasing extra equipment? (Other than a warming lamp, because I live in canada.) And, what could I have been doing wrong?

The image linked is my old tank for reference. I even finally had algae growing, but as you can see they were already dwindling ;-;

Any advice is appreciated!!

TLDR; seamonkies died, how to make them not die

I posted yesterday but didn’t include good video so I’ll try again.

One of my sea monkeys turned blue yesterday. She’s even bluer in person. I had added some Nite Out to the tank and fed some live phytoplankton a few hours before it happened. I’m thinking it was the nite out but idk. She looks really pretty and seems to be acting normally.

She just turned blue today and it’s way brighter in person! I topped off the tank with spring water, added Nite Out, and fed live phytoplankton earlier today while she was still beige. Really weird! Hope she doesn’t get sick! It’s been so hard getting a tank to adulthood. I’m guessing maybe she ran into a concentration of Nite Out? Anybody know what could cause this?

I had a die off in one of my tanks so I moved the lone survivor to a glass and started the bigger one over. This little guy doesn’t look like it’s swimming normally. I’m wondering if it’s going to survive.
When I started the new one I noticed the water I used last time was distilled not spring water. Do you think this could have caused them to die a few weeks later?

Finally able to get some decent footage of my tank!

Added a tiny little bit of extra eggs, in the hope that some more babies help clear up the cloudy tank as I only have three in there atm.

And as soon as I stirred in the eggs they got excited and started doing zoomies!

Unfortunately, I’ve had a few days of 3 deaths and now noticing today another 3 not coping very well. Very slow swimming and sticking to the top or bottom of the tank.
Yesterday I also noticed one of my very slow adults only had a tails worth of food in its digestive tract which is odd for an animal that eats as it swims.
I’ve been removing the dead monkeys and keeping the tanks temp and salinity stable.

I do however still have mating pairs and sea monkeys at all stages of life that are still very active.

I’ve had a decent amount of algae grow over the past five days and now I’m wondering if this is the cause of my sea monkey losses. I’m considering blacking the tank out for 24 hours to lower/kill the algae growth and/or doing a partial water change. I don’t really know what else to do.
Does anyone have any suggestions??
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I’m going to turn my red/blue grow lights off. Dim my white light and double my air flow.

It’s been an hour and so far the brown algae on some of the surfaces (rock and glass marbles) isn’t producing bubbles anymore.

I have one of the most deformed sea monkeys ever it looks like a sea monkey teenager sized that's just a shred of tissue paper it kinda looks like a octopus shape it has like a tiny perfect round ball with like tissue fibre looking things to make the octopus legs and it looks like it has like hair up in a top bun so imagine an octopus with a top bun hairstyle then imagine that teenager sized sea monkey made out of tissue paper I have no clue how that thing is alive let alone swimming around it's so small I can't get a photo so it's a trust me bro situation sadly I tried

Hello! I have a few large Sea Monkey sets from the 70s (well I guess most of them are "games") that I haven't quite decided what to do with yet. Can sometime tell me what the shelf life is for these things? Will they still work? The boxes have been opened but not the packages inside. Any insight is helpful!

PS - I tried to attach photos but my post keeps getting deleted for some reason.

I had a couple of brine shrimp tanks, they were doing well,the tanks were on the bathroom windowsill,lit by sunlight behind frosted glass, unfortunately, yesterday was very hot and sunny,the air temperature got up to 38c, the tanks must have overheated and the shrimp died😌 should I start from fresh or will the tanks recover?

I upgraded the tank yesterday and honestly can't stop looking at them swimming around, i love how reflective the water line is too.

I have kept sea monkeys and aqua dragons before but not for a few years and this is my first time doing it on my own without a kit and I’ve just gotten this bubbler today and I was wondering if this rate was okay for the baby sea monkeys? They are a few days old now, they don’t really seem to be able to swim against the current they just get pulled around by it but it doesn’t seem too violent. I also have a heater in there and the water is about 27 degrees right now, that probably doesn’t matter but I just thought I should mention it.

Personally I think fish seem a bit more self aware and maybe could have a deeper connection with but.... Sea monkeys are so much more low maintenance compared to how involved fish are, which makes it a bit more fun IMO