Aqua Dragons Hatch 'n' Grow Basic Tank | Build an Aquatic Ecosystem, Watch Prehistoric Pets Hatch & Grow Science Kit | Ages 6+

Produced about 50 viable shrimp that have grown to adulthood and are currently reproducing in a ball jar. Ive also used the little hatching tank to hatch some daphnia Ive purchased. The food provided took care of them for over a month before it ran out, and that was feeding a heaping scoop daily, not the level scoop every other day as stated.

These are brine shrimp that thrive in salt water. Add some high quality sea salt to mine and they are stoked! Breeding like crazy at the moment. Also they need more oxygen so use the little pump thing for longer like 4x a day.

I had so much fun with this! I followed the directions one afternoon, and by the next day I had tons of squirming shrimp. They’re super fun to watch. I stopped trying to use the little spoon that comes for the food, though — the food seemed to not want to come out. I had better luck just tapping a little into the tank from the packet. I hatched them almost two months ago, and I still have a few survivors. They lay lots of eggs, but they didn’t seem to hatch after the initial batch. I have read that it’s really hard to keep them going.

We've bought these kits in the past, and have had great hatch and growth rates. This time, I ordered a kit for myself and a kit for my daughter. We followed all directions exactly as they're written. All of mine died within a week. My daughter has one left. I'm so disappointed. If I'm able to get these kits exchanged, I'd like to. But this was unexpected.

Our daughters LOVE this they watched the dragons hack and they learned a new fact about dinos everyday!

I’m overall happy with this, though I must sadly report that my first clutch had died.One star off, because I feel as though the instructions weren’t clear enough, which partially led to the death of my lil guys. I did end up getting a second batch, and they’re doing well, but this one did not fare well.After doing further research, here are some tips for those struggling to get them to survive:1. “Murky water” is kind of a vague term. I feel as though with the amount of aeration and food and algae floating around, it was difficult for me to decipher what it meant, thus leading to me overfeeding which began the beginning of the end. The best advice is to use common sense. If you only have three survivors, you probably don’t need a full scoop. Even waiting every two days might not have been enough time to feed them a full scoop. My second group has done well being fed small amounts basically every day. I will eventually upgrade to a full scoop and maybe adhere to the original schedule, but their water is noticeably less “murky” than the first time around.2. Don’t wait 24 hours to feed them. For the second batch, I kind of waited a few hours, but put a small scoop of food in there since they don’t take long to start hatching. They do hatch with a yolk, but the yolk runs out quickly. If you’re asleep when they wake up, they may starve before you get a chance to feed them. In my first run, had a good group of hatchers where 90% met their demise after 24 hours. This was part of the issue, I believe. I strictly stuck to the recommended feeding schedule, and they hatched and looked good, but I think not getting to them in time with food is part of what doomed them. The other half of why they perished may be related to my next point:3. Aeration. Instructions say “for a few seconds.” I don’t know what that means, so I did like, five pumps for the day. That was certainly not enough. I do about 15 pumps twice a day now. Might be excessive but it doesn’t take a lot out of my day to do either. If they start acting all sluggish, there’s a good chance they need oxygen. Additionally, if there’s a lot of algae in your tank, you need to make absolutely sure there’s enough oxygen for that to flourish, as well as for your dragons.Additional points I can recommend:- They don’t all hatch at once. I didn’t quite understand that point at first. It may be entirely possible that if I had done the above, some would have hatched over time. I unfortunately got hasty and discovered this after I replaced the first group. But they would not have survived if I didn’t start doing the above. In my second group, it’s been about a week so far and babies are still popping out here and there. I think it may take up to a few weeks for all the eggs to hatch.- When you aerate, don’t smash the pipette against the wall. You never know if there was a wee baby you just smooshed. Also don’t forget to rinse your pipettes out, they get pretty gnarly. You also don’t want to introduce something gross that might kill them because you let your pipette get gross.Overall, especially for the price point, I think this is worth it. I wish the instructions were a little more thorough, but also I have a funny brain so I can’t entirely fault the instructions for my mistakes. But if you’re experiencing any bad luck, hopefully the above can help you. They’re a little more intense than what it appears at first glance, but overall it’s just routine maintenance and eyeballing them to make sure it all looks good. Takes me no more than five minutes out of my day, so I suppose they can be educational for small children to teach them some responsibility. I loved them as a kid, and I love them as an adult.

The media could not be loaded. Took me back to being 10 and having sea monkeys 🤣🤣 I'm a kid at heart okay lmao, on a serious note it came in about 2 days which was great and super easy to set up being 23 😂 I noticed they give you many more eggs than sea monkeys do because in 2 days I seen atleast a good 40 or 50 already swimming around in there and I was even more surprised because my house sits at around 68 and they recommend temps between 70-80 so they definitely are hardy lil guys that have a lil wiggle room, do recommend getting a mini tank heater for them for winters though otherwise people who didn't see any results either got a old batch of eggs, they last awhile but sometimes they go bad it happens, or overfed or forgot to aerated their tank. I microfeed my little guys about 2-3 times a week, about a quarter of the spoon they give you especially when they are young as even though it's a smaller spoon it's still a bit much for lil aqua dragons. Other than that I wish people luck😁 they are a fun lil pet even as a adult. Had them about two weeks now and there's many teenagers and even a couple lil babies again, probably include a couple eggs mixed in the food to keep more around just in case some don't make it, sneaky sneakyyy 😂😂 video included is from about 2 weeks in, sorry about quality. The one issue with the fully transparent tank is it's hard to take pics or record it 😂😂

These are fun, but it is a mess. I think most kids would be like mine - very interested once, they hatched (which they did) and excited to feed them, and look at them for a few days. After that, it's just something I quietly got rid of. The food is a very fine powder that is difficult to get into the opening, without spilling (speaking from a 6 year old). Otherwise, it was fun for the few days.