Growing SEAWEED in a Sea-Monkey Tank!
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Growing macroalgae (seaweed) in a sea monkey tank. In this video I show how I grew macroalgae in my brine shrimp aquarium.
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Despite living on the California coast for 25 years, I had no idea kelp and sea weed weren’t plants. You have broken my brain good sir.
Yeah I was kinda surprised too! I always figured seaweed was just an aquatic plant, but after researching it, it turns out that it’s its own thing 🤷♂️
And brine shrimp arent shrimp
I’ve a male sea monkey that is in love with the astronaut in my sea monkeys on Mars set up.. he is constantly attached to it 🤣🤣
😆 same thing happens in my mars tank. That floating astronaut must be hella sexy
love wina
@@pico-cosmos 🤣🤣🤣 he has it going onnnn! 🤣🤣🤣
“I’m not sure if this harms them in the long term but it is kinda funny to watch” that was also my parents view on nearly everything I did as a kid
🤣🤣🤣
Always pushing the limits of sea monkey keeping. THIS is exactly why I love your channel
:) thanks! I suspect keeping Sea-Monkeys with corals is also possible, but I’ve never tried growing them before. I have a feeling it takes quite a bit of work but I might give it a go one day
@@pico-cosmos that would be so cool!
Here's a really cool way to get decor for ur seamonk tank. Go to your closest marine aquarium store and see if they have "unseasoned live rock". Ask for chips or pebbles- small little bits around ½ inch to 2inchs in size. Place in a tank by the window, salinity same as seawater (or however you want to keep ur seamonks) leave for at least a month. Your pebbles will have been seeded with lots of different larvae, eggs and cysts from the area where they were collected. Depending on what was there you may get sponges, algae and macro algae, worms, coralline algae , bryozoans, even starfish and corals. It's very important to check for pests that can prey on your seamonks , mainly anemones. Remove them ( if you want! Or leave them if you want a more complex ecosystem) Sometimes you may get nothing at all. When everything has settled down add your seamonks. We used to do this at a pet shop i worked at, namely chucking bits of live rock into those gimmicky little tanks that were supposed to be for bettas. 9 times out of 10 algae and copepods would appear. (However we never put brine shrimp, i just got that idea after watching these videos!)
Oh wow seeing those little air bubbles move along the filaments is crazy. Thank you for showing us that. I didn't know something existed where that process was directly visualizable
On warm days you can often see microalgae & macroalgae “pearling”, where they constantly form and release litte oxygen bubbles, its super cool to see it happening so quickly 🫧
This is an awesome development! Older manuals stressed never introducing anything foreign into the tanks. These were cautions about not sneezing near them or sticking your fingers in the water, but aquarium decorations or common fish tank gravel were also unsuitable for the fragile environment. So I'm always interested when your experimental set-ups show brine shrimp existing alongside sand or plastic leaves & such. My heart did skip a beat when you started clipping the seaweed with the scissors, but if anyone's going to be careful around their sea-monkeys, it's you, ha ha. Great video, genuinely inspiring!
Lol yeah I’m always worried I’ll accidentally cut a Sea-Monkey in half 😅 hasn’t happened yet though 🤞
Hey that's neat that the seaweed volunteered!
Since you've said in the past that you live very close to the shore, I assumed that you were going to say that you took something that you thought might work from a rock pool and put it in your Sea-Monkey tank, but the fact that it 'seeded' itself is just wild!
I’m currently living in Wellington, which is the windiest city in the world! The combination of that + living close to the beach means I get a LOT of air flow through my windows 😆
You are truly on the forefront of sea monkey husbandry. Love that you got some greenery in there, it was funny watching the male sea monkey practicing his moves on it 😂
I adore when you do the super close up views of things in your tanks, so fascinating!
Oh this is beautiful, I love how it was spontaneous too just based on where you live. A testament to how well you keep your tanks!
Thank you, Professor Bozinov. Truly fascinating. I wonder if you put the clippings in another tank if they would take hold and grow. We always learn something from your videos. 👏👏👏
😆 you’re making me feel like that guy on the old plasma packets 🧪 This plant is constantly producing little babies that show up on the walls of the tank, I scraped them off so the tank doesn’t look too dirty, but they could easily be transported. I’m testing this out at three moment with the Magic Castle & Mars tanks 👌 it already seems to be taking hold on Mars! Who knew that arid planet was so primed for life
@@pico-cosmos : Exactly. You nailed it, Professor.
I have a few different types of shrimps in my aquariums, one of them is a shrimp that lives for 20 years+ called Opae Ula. They live in Brackish water, a certain chateo grows well and that's it. Much like Sea Monkeys, you just let them sit and they can thrive with occasional topoffs. Maybe this is something I can potentially try in that tank as Brackish water isn't very friendly to plant life.
I have Opae Ula and wondering if this could work in their tank as well🤔 I may set a up a second tank and try this out.
New sea monkey meta just dropped
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What an amazing little accident!! It looks so pretty in the tank
That is SO COOL! I bet the sea monkeys are loving it. What a fortunate breeze. ^_^
thats so awesome!! I've always felt like sea monkey tanks were missing some plant life in their ecosystem! once again another great video picocosmos! Glad you are part of this amazing community of people!
Yeah I’ve felt like that too, I dream to one day have a tank full of several mini seaweed species and sea-monkeys swimming in amongst it 😍
I love the idea of having seaweed grown instead of algae! I love the effort.
I love to watch your videos I hope soon I can get a sea mankey
I lov your sea monkeys videos very much! Keep up th good work! ❤😊
I had those for many months in small Sea-Monkey aquaria and jars. Grown from a small piece I collected at the coast.
Just amazing that something like this just happened and that it's doing so well thanks to your great care of the tanks/sea monkeys! :)
~ lovely greetings from Austria ^^
Cool to see those stray plants produce air bubble oxygen for the Sea Monkeys! Good video, thanks!
Ohh thank you! I have converted a bigger tank for sea monkeys so these are a great idea to add in for them
Hey John - your videos and photography are fantastic! You have inspired me to start a few tanks of my own. I would very much like to see a video on mature tank maintenance to guide your viewers interested in maintaining their tanks long term. Thanks!
The sea monkeys looked like they were enjoying the seaweed!
That’s a pretty cool idea! Awesome video John!
Thanks man! 🙏☺️
this plant looks like its built ready to be plugged into some kind of oxygen generation machine. amazing video!
😆 I mean technically it is an oxygen generating machine 🫧
Yeaaaah! I always enjoy your videos. They're relaxing. Thank you for your awesome channel.
Definitely gonna try to grow some plants in my tank thx!
This is so amazing!
This is awesome!!
I enjoy this so much! Amazing content, best wishes to you and your future projects! 🌻
:) thank you!!
just love your voice, love the ideas
:) thanks Arenda
This is really cool!
it's as if the Earth telling you that you're doing it right.
like it went "here's a small reward of plants for you and your little friends"
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Will watch this banger when I get home from work
Wow, it's incredible you had seaweed naturally appear in your tank!
It’s cool huh! I really want to learn more about growing macroalgae
I am impressed on how you keep doing this 😂😮
Thanks! I feel like we’ve only just scratched the surface on what is possible with these little pet’s though. I’m sure there’s still a lot to learn :)
I work fast food but i recognized Ulva intestinalis before you said it out loud... I guess my marine biology degree was good for something after all
Also, if youre wondering how it tastes, i havent had that species in particular, but i have had its related species, Ulva lactuca (the leafy/foliose kind), and i cant imagine they taste too different. I put salt and sesame oil and seeds on it and baked it for dried seaweed snacks. It was good. This was actually a final project for my phycology class.
Makes tank look good 👍
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im amazed , thanks
I love this! Been looking what I should put in a brine shrimp tank with something more lively than a piece of plastic. I forgot seaweed existed lol. This video was helpful, now that you said you're near beach, it would be cool to experiment with other seaweeds or algae grown on the rocks like what I saw on the short clip of your video. Maybe making your own tank resembling their natural habitat.
I do enjoy the sea monkeys tank designs, but they're costly for me from where I am, so I thought to try what is more accessible like the brine shrimp fish food tub of eggs. I have sands and shells but have no idea what something green to put other than waiting for algae to grow so this video made me happy. I would LOVE to see more of these please! 🙏 I never saw anyone to try this with these shrimps
I did not know there's a hobby on caring macroalgaes, will look into these. Maybe I can care for some too if ever
Definitely going to try experimenting with other seaweed species :) glad to hear you’re getting into the hobby!
To the best of my knowledge, there really isn't isn't anything resembling seaweed, non-vascular, or vascular plants in their natural habitat. In terms of replicating nature, if your tank has a layer of detritus on the bottom covered with microalgae, you've pretty much nailed it.
@@jic1 I know, I just want to, sort of scape it? Pardon my English. Their tanks are always decorated and I want to try decorating it with something else other than growing algae or plastic decoration. I don't know how to express this in a comment in english. I am wrong to say "to replicate their natural habitat" more of me wanting to see what brine shrimps would look like swimming in a macroalgae scapes. Or those hardscapes I've seen.
I hope that was clear
@@pitayafruit Yes I agree with you, I certainly like the idea of live plants in Sea-Monkey tanks, 'natural' or not.
For 25ppt, try caulerpa prolifera. I use it in all my brackish aquariums. You can also do blue legged hermit crabs in that salinity
Oo thanks for the tip! I’ll definitely look into it 👌
What a cool addition 😂 love it! I might visit the beach by me a pick up a bit of seaweed and chuck it in my daughters seamonkey tank! Let’s see what happens
Your content is by far in my top 5
Fantastic video! I'm about to start a very large Sea-Monkey tank and this would look great in there. Might be difficult for me to start though.
Keeping this stuff under control would probably be quite difficult in a larger aquarium, you can practically watch it grow 😆 can’t wait to see your new tank set up Jon! 🙌👀
@@pico-cosmosthanks! I want this one to look very natural. So no fake looking plants or castles.
I'll start it soon. Just waiting on my order of SM packets.
Love your channel!!
Finally a new video
Wait, so the little plant spores just appeared in the tank? Does that mean you could take some of the trimmings and put them in other tanks and grow plants in there?
So this little plant is constantly producing little babies that appear on the walls of the tank. They’re basically like a tiny version of the larger plant. I always scrape them off the tank walls to keep it clean, and also because I don’t want to tank getting overrun with seaweed - but yeah I could easily transport them into other tanks.
I’m actually experimenting with this at the moment :) The Magic Castle & Mars tanks I showed at the beginning of this video have lots of tiny baby seaweed in them
Will be looking forward to you possibly selling cultivations of this stuff.
It blows me away that the seaweed just appeared. The idea that it can migrate is new to me.
Have you tried collecting cuttings of other species of seaweed to see if they would grow in a tank
I haven’t but it’s a good idea 👍
Looking up random listings I came across (Sea-Monkeys Banana Treat Packet) that's supposed to be full of different kinds of vitamins for them as well as (Sea-Monkeys Cupid’s Arrow Packet) that's supposed to help to make more babies. I wish I could see both under your microscope I'm interested in what is even in both packets.
Working on a video about this at the moment ;)
I wonder if it would be possible to use this type of seaweed in a fishtank with sand substrate with a large amount of seamonkeys living in it.
Definitely possible. I have a 2 litre DIY brine shrimp tank that has lots of this seaweed growing in it!
I’d really like to see you do a proper nice tank for sea monkeys, maybe with some plants in a different kind of container it’d be cool to see if you get yourself a little ecosystem going (maybe in a gallon/half gallon tank)
Yeah I’d love to do this too! Need to experiment with more macroalgae first 👌
@@pico-cosmos all good ! Whenever it’s ready I’ll be watching
Love how it just happened! Was meant to be my dude. Maybe nature just knew you were the right home for some new foliage :)
Would love to know though how one could intentionally seed their sea monkey tank.
Oooh might have to go have have a nosey at the local rock pools. I've got a large-ish setup (for SeaMonkey standards lol) with only fake grass at the moment.
Question however that I hope you might be able to help with - I've also got a Mars tank set-up that's been going for about 6 months or so. I got down to 3 adult females with no babies that I could see - so I moved them to the larger tank. It's been a few weeks and the Mars tank now has a couple of teenage boys and what look like brand new hatchlings...where are they coming from? 🤷🏻♂️😅 There have been no "piggy back rides" in there for a long while 🤔
Are you ever planning on hatching triops?
It also seems good for... enrichment lol
Can you use aquarium sand for seamonkeys?
Yes! If you want to use a substrate, sand is the best option for Sea-Monkeys
all types of seaweed are actually edible, you just have to rinse the fuck out of them to strip out as much of the salt as possible, some types of kelp can even be used as a substitute for lettuce in salad
Are the caps on your website still pre-order only?
Thanks for brining this to my attention, I didn't realise that I hadn't changed the description on the website 😅 The caps are available for order now and will ship within 1-2 days 👍
@@pico-cosmos Thanks!
I recently got my first tank thanks to your content!
I was wondering if it would be suitable to feed my shrimp blue spirulina powder instead of the conventional sea monkey food. I got the Magiquarium, so keeping things blue would be more aesthetically pleasing, but I wasn't sure if it would be a good substitute for astaxanthin.
I’ve tried blue spirulina, it’s pretty weird stuff. It’s basically the same as green spirulina but it’s been processed to have a component of it removed. Blue spirulina dissolves really well in water, but it seems that the Sea-Monkeys don’t really eat it, it just kinda dyes the water blue. Long story short, use Astaxanthin or regular green spirulina lol
@@pico-cosmos Thank you so much! Another question I had was on the grow lights. Do you normally have them on full-blast or on a dimmer setting since indirect sunlight is preferable?
Full blast, the more light the better when it comes to algae growth
@@pico-cosmos Although my understanding from the little I've read about cultivating microalgae as human food is that partial shade actually produces optimal nutrition. I don't know how much of a difference that makes for Sea-Monkeys though, considering that they seem to be eating every second of their lives.
@@jic1 That's really interesting, thanks for sharing. I always switch the lamps off at night, but just to save on power. I never knew that dark periods could actually be beneficial
Could you try out the basic kit of “the gluupys Cancun”?
I have no idea how I was recommended to your channel, but I've been marathoning your videos since last night. I now want sea monkeys so heckin' bad.
Only problem is I don't have a window I can put them in. Is there any lamps that you would recommend that could work instead, or should I give up on sea monkeys and just enjoy them from watching videos?
Honestly any regular lamp pointed at the tank should work fine, it might just take a while longer for algae to start growing. As long as it’s not too cold you should be fine :) and thanks for supporting the channel! 🙌
i just have a regular desk lamp shining over mine and the algae formed in a few weeks. I don't have to add food or do anything anymore except top it off with fresh water when the level drops.
@@pico-cosmos Thank you so, so much! After leaving this comment I continued to watch your videos and some mentioned this and I sure felt silly! I'm hoping to get a set up next month and I'll definitely be using your affiliate links!
@@carrielange2692 Thank you so so much for the info and sharing your experience! This'll definitely help me out!
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Question...if only 2 sea monkeys have hatched, can I put in another packet of eggs with the 2 newborns to try to see if they'll hatch better?
Was that sea monkey in the end trying to nibble on the plant? Or he is just a big humper..
People should definitely do this when theyre raising sea monkeys
Can I also use deionized water
I have my own but they just hatched and my phone can barley see them
Can you do eny sea monkeys vs aqua dragons tank vid 20 of asking love your vids❤❤❤❤❤
Yup!
Would you try cultivating some predatory species of sea monkeys in larger tank?
Like fish?
@@pico-cosmos bit sort like? not sure bit closer to triops probaly but branchinecta gigas sounds really interesting from what i read
Does the sea monkeys get stuck in the gutweed?
Hi I was wondering how to keep my sea monkeys alive for a long time because I have a channel and I’ve made a series of me raising sea monkeys and I want to keep that series running for as long as possible
Check out my video titled “10 essential Sea-Monkey tips for beginners” 👍
@@pico-cosmos thank you it helped me out a bunch
@@pico-cosmosafter watching it I am gonna try to buy some of the equipment to help the growth of my sea monkeys and help out your channel
@@pico-cosmos also I was just on mercari I spotted a sea monkey tank I’ve never seen before and it is the sea monkeys pirate treasure tank it would be a great video for you I would do it my self but I don’t have enough money it is 261$
what do i give my sea monkeys after the starter food is all gone?
Spirulina powder is probably the best and most available option. Yeast can work too.
Hey, thats amazing video. I really like your content. I have a question. I have sea monkey tank for a while but the problem is that my monkey are not mating. And you know those little rascals love a good orgy. Maybe you have idea why they have are not mating? Tank seems healthy and i follow instruction clearly.
How long have you had the tank going for? Sometimes it can just take a while. Is there algae growing in the tank?
I am going to get into marimos and set up a tank. Do you know if marimos and sea monkeys can live together?
Can the marimos tolerate salty water?
@@pico-cosmos one answer was yes but the rest no, so I am assuming no. I am new to both sea monkeys and marmios. I ordered the mars one off Amazon and after they got established I was thinking of adding them to a bigger tank with plants.
I have a sapphire
Eh guess what already did that before you basically I made or at slowly acclimated by sea monkeys into fresh water now they can live with snails and plants I actually overfed them and there there's only one left but the thing's clearly in a plastic tub wear with plants and Snails trumpet snails and bladder snails basically acrobate and weight like like your typical acclamation of like every single time when they give a birth put acclimated fresh water in there it has to be a big Tupperware where Where you pour the entire sea monkey taken side then solely accumulate them in fresh water in a tub where bin or small Tupperware and you can put them in ALEV light and then they ouch you will grow your slowly tournam into fresh water and then when it becomes fresh water then you can basically put some snails some fishes that won't eat the sea monkeys because they're way too big and snails so yeah thank you for reading this
How much was ur microscope
I think around $500 USD
The type of plants store in there is one plant that basically branch off in that with round leaves that you can find in a family pet store basically freshwater plant and then there's a moss ball the sea monkeys were living in fresh water OK but come back steadily overfed them But they are gonna be fineI have opened the lid because the other ones are all dead but I know there is one that hatched because 1 did hatched and well there's a lot of algae in there and don't have the only creatures in there there is gonna be smell there are snails 2 top of snails trumpet snails ladder snails Do you want to put the Strip Astracard Tiny Little Invertebrate In there in the future I do not know the gender of the sea monkey yet but They Or slaving as well So yeah I'm the first person in the world who made fresh water sea monkeys Or Bryan shrimp or classification of their species The basically every single time when they basically produse offspring I put a small cup ofIs water tap water or Reversal smokes water Notably mine is kind of broken but there's still a lot that they survive It The cup that I used was named or is Dona ..maria mole Mexican sauce... I just used to cop not the thing don't die with the thing with the other creatures I just used to cook from that product I use that Pacific cup for the water And I do it only once with that cup when the baby c monkeys grow up and then when they reproduce again then I'll do the water againAnd plus we have fungus gnats in the house because we have plants The sun them died in the water becoming a little bit Hardy it's okay and before I put the snails and the plants in there I use the reverse hospital's water to rent more for a put in the window so yeah that's how I get it underneath AUV light
Ok wait you didn't put it in there??
Nope! Apparently Gutweed releases gametes and spores into the water quite regularly, so somehow some of them ended up in my tank. I’ve actually been seeing this stuff show up in a few of my brine shrimp tanks recently, though the one in this tank looks the nicest
@@pico-cosmosnature continues to be more impressive and fascinating
"Nature, uh, finds a way."
where can i get gut weed not from a beach?
I’m not sure.. I don’t think anyone sells it 🤷♂️
@@pico-cosmos if I did find some do I just use super glue? Because I've seen fish safe glue before
You can buy sea lettuce online instead :)
Is it safe to put fake plants in your sea monkey tanks
I down voted your video at 0:16 for obvious reasons.