Mission to Mars!

Sea-Monkeys on Mars click to expand

Mars tank on 4/23/2001. click to expand

The Sea-Monkeys Mission to Mars has offically begun today. I secretly ordered this kit last week and when I got home from work it was waiting on me, as was my exasperated wife who seemed to be annoyed at my purchasing all these kits... cretin! Sea-Monkeys are fun. The Mars kit on first glance seems to be about the same kit as the Magic Castle, but it's not. The Mars kit is a Martian landscape complete with a Mars lander and a Sea-Monkeynaut all under a bell jar. But the bell jar is taller and skinnier than the Magic Castle bell jar. Of course it comes complete with everything you need to make Sea-Monkeys and an aqua-leash, but this one says it needs more aeration than the other kits so I will pay special attention to it. Here are the first pictures of the new tank right after I added Packet #1. The 24 hour wait is looming ahead now, and then we will make magic again.

Magic Castle 04/23/2001 click to expand

Ghostly Galleon tank on 4/23/2001. click to expand

Until then here is an update on the other two tanks beginning with the Magic Castle. Of the two experiments the castle seems to have come out on top. There is a big male in the castle tank and he is letting all the rest know he is the boss. You can see his grabbers on his head really good... they look almost like antlers and he zooms around the tank and frequently pushes the others around, I think I will call him "Spike". Over in the Ghostly Galleon tank there are at least four adults that I can see, one of those is a big bull and he has visible antler-like grabbers as well. He zooms around the tank and likes to skim the top of the tank with his feet breaking the surface of the water like a shark, I think I will call him "Jaws". Lots of baby Sea-Monkeys have recently appeared in the galleon tank and now they are starting to get a little size on them... Maybe Jaws has been busy with his harem... who knows.

All of our current experiments 04/23/2001 click to expand

One of the really nice features of the Mars tank is that there is a clear sticker on the side with a fill mark on it so you don't have guess how much water to put in the tank. I will be closely watching all three experiments for the next few days and giving updates only when major events occur from now on. The Mars tank will be taking the center ring as the latest experiment and I hope to have three thriving Sea-Monkey colonies in the next few weeks. Watching the activities of the bulls in the two current tanks has lead us to the conclusion that it would probably be a bad idea to allow them to mix, so I doubt I will be doing any tank transfering of Sea-Monkeys. As soon as the Sea-Monkeys in the Mars tank are visible I will get some new shots of them and update this journal.

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