Little Live Aqua Dragons - Deep Sea Habitat

I’m very satisfied with this aqua dragons kit. It was easy to setup. I used bottled spring water in my tank and got great results. 24 hours after mixing in the packet, I could see so many tiny aqua dragons moving in the water. I strongly recommend aerating your tank at least once daily for a couple of minutes each time. Do this by gently squeezing bubbles into the water using the plastic pipette that comes in the kit. I didn’t add anything that didn’t come with the kit to avoid contaminating the water with chemicals that could harm the aqua dragons. No sand, pebbles, rocks, corals or other decorations. Besides, there wasn’t really enough room available in the tiny tank. Best practice would also include washing your hands prior to handling the plastic pipette or feeding spoon. And it’s better not to touch the water with fingers. After many months of having a bunch of thriving aqua dragons, it finally came down to having one left. And eventually I didn’t see anything in my tank. I’m glad I didn’t dump the contents of my seemingly aqua dragon-less tank immediately. I decided to keep using the pipette to aerate the water in the tank daily. And to my surprise, two weeks later I noticed a young aqua dragon swimming around. I remembered how a pregnant adult had died and it probably hatched from one of her eggs. (The more you read about brine shrimp, you’ll learn how fascinating these little creatures are.) I have since added some brine shrimp eggs to my aqua dragons tank to repopulate it & so my lone aqua dragon wouldn’t need to be alone. I bought the brine shrimp eggs separately. This is a great kit for kids & adults. It’s a good way to learn about responsibility and patience. And although not necessary, doing some research by googling brine shrimp can be beneficial to both humans and aqua dragons. If you’ve tried raising the sea monkeys brand brine shrimp with less than satisfactory results, this aqua dragons kit will likely be better than your expectations. If you’re on the fence between sea monkeys & aqua dragons, I recommend this product.

Very nice water dragon game.

I've been looking for a low maintenance pet, that also doesn't take up much room. Was considering goldfish, but -- to care for them properly -- even they were more work (& more expensive) than I wanted. Don't know how I lucked into Aqua Dragons but I'm so pleased I did. The price ($20) was right, and the kit came with everything. While I waited for delivery I watched the videos on YouTube on proper set up and care. The kit arrived in perfect condition. I used bottled spring water in the tank, and used the pipette to aerate the water even before adding the egg mixture. Then the waiting began. The directions said to add 1/2 a spoonful of food the next day, which I did, and the following morning (about 41 hours) I looked with the magnifier and thought there were a couple of hatched aqua dragons. Later in the afternoon (about 46 hours) I looked longer, and there are DOZENS of aqua dragons swimming in there!! I can't believe how many hatched! I'm really enjoying this and am keeping careful track to see how things progress. I'll try to update once they get bigger. But as far as I'm concerned I've already gotten my money's worth. Update: the Aqua Dragons are one month old today, and they've really grown. I've added an updated video. The original bunch of 50+ dragons whittled down to about 25. I've been very careful to continue to follow directions, and they seem to be pretty healthy. I really am enjoying these guys -- they're a LOT of fun to watch. And sometimes I'll move their little tank to different places in the house. I think I'm enjoying these little guys more than I would have enjoyed fish.

I bought this set as a first "pet" for my 6-year-old about a month ago, and I have to admit I've enjoyed these little guys just as much as (or maybe even more than) he has! I read tons of tips online so I knew not to use tap water. I think they need to make this very important detail much more obvious in the packaging, put it in caps, something to make it stand out more, because tap water will kill them. You must use plain bottled Spring water, not ionized, carbonated, alkalinated, or anything else nutty. We did that from the get-go and it was exciting watching the tank each day and waiting to see the tiny babies. We have a colony of probably 20-30 dragons, including one attached/mating pair I just noticed (I haven't quite figured out how to explain that one to my son: "Well sweetie, when two aqua dragons love each other very much.." Haha, I'll figure something out ;) As cool as these things are, I had to deduct a star for the tippability (is that a word? Sure, now it is) of the tank. Seriously, it's a set made for children who as a rule tend to be clumsy little humans, you'd think it would have a sturdier base?? The base is flimsy and quite narrow, and my son managed to tip it over in his excitement and it cracked, as well as released hundreds of little larvae onto the wood floor (cue massive frenzied rescue mission using the pipette). Unfortunately some of them didn't make it. Luckily the tank still holds water so we're still using it. The light to view the creatures is very cool, but it's going to be impossible to change the batteries in the base without transferring the colony to another container, so we just try to limit use of the light. Plus, it's very easy to inadvertently tip over the tank when you press the button. For those 2 reasons, I just couldn't give 5 stars. But this set has still been a ton of fun. I do always keep a lamp on next to them (I read that promotes well-being) and I don't let the house get below about 65 degrees. Plus I aerate the tank 2 times daily and they have done swimmingly. Get them, it'll be fun! And way less work than a snake, which is what my kid initially wanted!

Our daughter was thrilled to receive her very own sea monkeys for Christmas. They were very slow to hatch, the instructions said 24-48 hours but in actuality it took closer to four days to see any white specks of the sea monkeys. What concerned me most was the tank wasn’t very stable and sure enough one week after setting up the tank my eager five year old bumped it and it was knocked over. The poor girl is distraught that her beloved pets have perished.

This is a week after starting. Really easy to do! I got this for my four year old and I had gotten seamonkeys for my son. Out of the two, this one is soooo much better! The Aquadragons have probably hundreds in the little tank while the sea monkeys only have around 2 dozen. Haven’t seen a drop in number and seems all are doing great and even more are hatching in the seamonkeys. Definitely a good set up for the money. I wouldn’t have bought it for more than $20 but right now with the turnout of how many hatched, definitely worth it! The tank they send with is cool since it has the lights. Only thing that was disappointing is the design on the bottom and the water level is a plastic sleeve around it. If you accidentally spill water it gets in between and you can’t see so we removed it. That’s why the tank in my video had water smudges 🫠. We seen babies in as little as 24 hrs and even now we see teeny babies and week old ones too. So the eggs are still hatching. Make sure you’re using the bubbler thing to put air into the water or yours will die. They need oxygen and if you leave the water stagnant they won’t survive. I oxygenate the water at least once a day. With the Aquadragons having so many in there I’ve been doing it twice a day. Feeding - we’ve done half a scoop 1 day after we see them hatching and then just gave another full scoop around 3-4 days later. Don’t over feed either! If the water is murky leave it be and they’ll keep eating. And just top off with a bottle of water and don’t completely change water when it gets low. Hope this helps anyone looking to do them. Good luck!

I am still amazed how many there are! The video shows what they look like at a week old and there are tons of them. The pictures are what they look like now at 3 weeks and there are still so many. Every little dot in the photos is one of them. They have to be having babies because there are so many different sizes right now. I followed all the instructions to set it up. Every day I take the little plastic pipette that comes in the kit and blow bubbles in the water, it says to do it for about a minute every few days but I do it every day and I just count each time I put it in the water and blow bubbles up to 60 times. I feed them every 3 days like it says and have no problem with cloudy or dirty water. I am not worried about running out of food at all! I keep the food in a plastic ziploc bag. There is some sediment that sits at the bottom that gets swirled around when I do the bubbles in the water but it drops back down quickly and has not been a problem. I leave them in a room that fluctuates in temp because the AC is on during the day but off at night and even that obviously hasn't been a problem. I do have them under a "plant light" during the day so it is like they are getting a full days worth of sun and I don't know if that is why I have had such success with them or not. After reading many reviews I was worried that I would end up with only a few or maybe even none. I want to tell you that my experience has been so great with them that I would do it again in a heartbeat! They are so awesome to watch especially with all the different sizes! Sorry this is so long! I just wanted to explain as much as possible so you will buy them and have a great experience just like I have!

They are so tiny but make sure to keep it clean and feed