🦎 Hatch, grow, and glow with your own prehistoric pets!
The Aqua Dragons Hatch 'n' Grow Basic Tank is a compact, all-inclusive science kit that lets kids aged 6+ create and observe a living aquatic ecosystem. With eggs, food, and a tank included, users witness the fascinating hatching and growth of prehistoric Aqua Dragons in just 2-3 days, making biology and environmental science hands-on and exciting.
Theme | Aquatic life |
Item Dimensions | 6.69 x 2.36 x 6.3 inches |
L**H
These things hatch fast!
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.
S**2
Wonder quality cuteness
The media could not be loaded. Wonder little critters, hatched quickly and in large numbers and are still alive and thriving almost 7 months later!
K**E
Cute tank, productive eggs.
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.
A**R
Aqua dragons don’t hatch- but the sea monkeys do!
These do not hatch..the sea monkeys Did!!!…you can see in the pictures although it’s hard to tell- the one with the blue trimmed tank is empty- eggs still at the bottom. The sea monkeys are tiny at this time but they’re happily swimming around!… I bought my daughter the sea monkeys and my son the aqua dragons…such a disappointment for my little boy-
M**R
Great beginner pet for kids
The media could not be loaded. This is a great beginner friendly patch for a little kid very educational and very small to store anywhere you live the littles Aqua Dragons are very beautiful great value for your money
K**Y
RIP to the fallen - but here are some tips
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.
A**P
WAY better than Sea Monkeys
It might be tempting to see these as off-brand Sea Monkeys, but the truth is Aqua Dragons are much better. First of all, they're the same animal. I've played around with various Sea Monkeys kits over the years and they were always disappointing: only a handful of eggs would hatch, then only a tiny percentage of babies would grow, and then they wouldn't reproduce and die a week later. After going through this a few times I switched to Aqua Dragons.If you look around on forums, you'll see that aquarium folks prefer Aqua Dragons because the standard packets appear to contain more eggs than Sea Monkey kits do, and the hatchlings seem to be hardier. I've also seen it claimed that the food that comes with Aqua Dragons is better than the Sea Monkey mix, supposedly because it's smaller and better suited to the tiny mouths of the babies.I don't know how much of the above is true, but I can definitively say that this kit is superior to Sea Monkeys in terms of quality and satisfaction. The tank is a little boring, being plainer than Sea Monkey habitats, but you can always find a cool tank of your own and grow your Aqua Dragons in that.
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