Erm, Sea Monkeys is the same as brine shrimps in't? To me, it is.

Brine shrimps eggs can be found at pet shops (ask for artemia eggs / brine shrimp eggs / (say the one to feed fish fries)). Sold in packets or bottles.

Comparison between Full Set Monkey and Artemia (those sold in fish shops):-

I .Sea monkey full set - 30 ringgit
What you get = A fancy small container with magnifiying glass + a small packet of artemia eggs + a spoon? + some accessories? + food?

II. Artemia Eggs from Fish Shop + Equimpments you may consider to get
What you should get :-
1. A bottle of eggs (RM18 - easily more than 10 times from Sea Monkey Co)
2. An air pump + air tube (length varies) + air filter x2(not sure what is this called) (RM 1x - Increase hatching rate)
3. A container (RM 2x - If planning to keep as pets, why not get something bigger? Like 2 ft glass aquarium?)
4. Sea salt (RM 2x - Not common aquarium salt. Sea Salt for Marine Fishes)
5. Anti Chlorine (RM 1)

Depending on environment, they don't generally live very long, (Maybe lack of food and oxygen). Most are good for 3 to 5 days as food for fish fries.

To increase hatching rates from eggs some breeders use washing technique to remove the hard egg layers (but this is too detail and I've never tried it myself - for more information, google it). What you can easily do is:-
1. Get a clear mineral bottle. Cut it into half horizontally. The cut should be roughly 3/4 from the opening.
2. Remove the cap. Make a hole thru the cap to fit the air tube.
3. Get about 2 ft of air tube, stick it thru the hole in the cap enough to put a small air filter inside/inwards the cap. Seal it with water proof glue or something.
4. When dried, screw the cap back into the 3/4 bottle top.
5. Filled it with 1/2 water + anti chlorine + sea salt (Calculate the right amount for the water)
6. Let it stand on the remainding 1/4 bottle bottom and aerate it for a few hours.
7. Add in artemia eggs and leave it for 1 to 2 days.
8. When most eggs hatches, remove them from the bottle and into a bigger tank with aeration.

As for food, I'm not sure.

These Sea Monkeys are quite small, a hatching are just like fine jumping dust particles inside the water. 2 - 3 days old you may see them swimming or jumping inside the water like 5mm tadpoles.

Hope this helps

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Added on August 29, 2008, 10:44 pmErm, you can try, there is this dried brine shrimps sold at fish shops. I think they have it at pet safari.

My sis actually tasted it, she said salty. I mean it does smell good. But none of my fish likes it.

Packaging, advertising, custom-made products. But just 5 days perhaps cause of lack of food, lack of oxygen and lack of good quality water

Think so, it looks the same to me, I use them for goldfish fries, my friend use it for discuss fries.

This post has been edited by empty_reg: Aug 29 2008, 10:44 PM

Where did you get the eggs from? The eggs must be kept dry. Any possible moisture will damage the eggs, renders them useless.
Possible that the shop that sold you did not kept them properly or old stock. Cause as long as you put the eggs inside any water, they'll likely hatch. But surviving inside there is another part of the story.

Erm, I assume you got the one called Sea Monkey right?

The water which you used, does it have sufficient oxygen? You should aerated water to increase hatching rates (Try stirring). Did you use salt water? (Sea salt, NOT aquarium salt)

But the hatching rate for Sea Monkeys is relatively low. Usually I use one tea spoon for hatchery, after 2 days I transfer them into a bigger container. Usually get 100's of them. (I can say 60% - 70% of mine died after the second day)

I'll just say is hard to keep them alive. Don't follow the instructions given in the tablet which comes with your product. Try googling for more information. (Breeding artemia)

Breeding as food or pet is almost the same in early stages. Is only at later stage, trying to keep them alive is difficult. I've never come close to growing them up to the size of more than 4 ~ 5mm.

Cause I was told it can grow up to 1 inch big. Maybe some other experts in this field can clarify this.

Good luck for those who is trying to keep them. = )