for Students
(How to raise Sea-Monkeys
on the cheap so that you can afford to spend more money down the union bar
drinking subsidised beer and still own Sea-Monkeys)
1) This may be the one of
the hardest parts of the instructions, as you need to find a CLEAN
pint glass. Sea-Monkeys will die if contaminated with germs
or foreign objects. Clean does not mean slightly swilled out
under the tap either. If you are really stuck you should try
borrowing a plastic glass from the next beer festival you
attend.
|
 |
2) Unless you are an arts
student you probably don't have any bottled water lying around and
if you are an arts student you probably drink the fizzy type to
make you look more sophisticated, so the best thing to do is to
use the kettle. Boil some water and leave it to C00l,
use this to fill up the pint glass.
|
 |
3) Next look in the back of
your food locker for the salt container, check it is
non-iodised. If you have no salt in the house then your
local greasy spoon usually has them on the tables (You may want to
ask if it's non-iodised of course). Put four TEASPOONS of
salt into your pint of water. Teaspoons are the grubby brown
ones you stir your tea with not the bigger ones you use to eat
your pineapple chunks with. Again try and make sure the
spoon is clean.
|
 |
4) Next you need to do a
bit of stirring, we used a plastic chop stick (which is our
official Netfysh stirrer). Just improvise, but beware those
pens and pencils you bought with good intension at the start of
term may not be clean if you've been sucking them.
Stir for 30 seconds until there is no salt left at the bottom of
the glass. You know what the bottom of a glass looks like as
you will have been staring into one last night waiting for someone
else to go to the bar for you.
|
 |
5) This is just an
observation but now if you look at your glass you have over a
pint. This trick will work with beer too, add four teaspoons
of salt to your drink and you will have more than you started
with. On a personal note it also works with salted peanuts,
chips and cherry drop sweets. All these facts probably
aren't new to science students but at least we've taught the art
students something.
|
 |
6) Here is the bad news,
you are going to have to splash out on some Sea-Monkey eggs.
They really do cost money. You can buy Brine Shrimp eggs
instead, they cost less money if you can find any where that sells
them. Perhaps make them House Sea-Monkeys so that you can
take some of the cost of the eggs out of the money you owe for the
telephone bill this week ?
|
 |
7) In the official
Sea-Monkey instructions after you've added the water purifier you
should wait for 24 hours before adding the eggs. This is not
the official Sea-Monkey instructions and we can't wait and you
probably can't be bothered either. So just add in the eggs.
|
 |
8) If you look into the
glass now you will see some of the food colouring that is included
in the eggs to help you see the Sea-Monkeys quicker. Ours
was a nice blue colour this time but we've seen green in other
packets. Give it all a quick stir to make sure the eggs
aren't stuck on the water surface.
|
 |
9) For the next hour or two
you can amuse yourselves watching the small air bubbles float up
to the surface. It's cheaper than a lava lamp.
|
 |
10) Wait, check them every
day. We got bored after 3 days of checking every day and
went on to every other day. We took the precaution of moving
the glass away from the usual places we put our pints to avoid the
embarrassment of saying the line "Excuse me you've just drunk
my Sea-Monkeys". Stir the glass up each day to make
sure they get air in there.
|
|
11) So it was about a week
before we noticed we had a glass teeming with life. Of
course now you have all these hungry mouths to feed. We are
trying them on Koi Carp food pellets as you get an awful lot of
them for your money.
|
 |
|