Schylling The Original - Instant Life

I bought these in August to make a custom sea monkey tank. My tank is 0.5 gallons, but ended up being a bit less than that once I filled it with water. The packets are good for 10 oz to 12 oz of water, so I used 5 packages for my tank. I put all of the packets in my tank following the instructions carefully, saw a couple of baby sea monkeys and then they died and nothing else happened. The tank had also turned quite green after adding the egg packets. I was bummed, but thought I'd leave the tank to see what happened. Saw one more hatch a while later, it died, so I left it again. Fast forward to early November when my tank was over half evaporated and I was waiting for it to fully evaporate so I could try refilling it to trigger a second hatching (as I saw mentioned online). Looked in and to my surprise there were two almost adult sea monkeys in there with a few more babies besides! I was in a bit of a conundrum as the tank was now over half evaporated, and I was planning on pulling out the gravel on the bottom as I read after the fact that they can get trapped in that and die. I ended up pulling out all of the gravel even with them in there, surprisingly they made it through fine and then I started topping up the water incrementally so as not to change it too quickly on them. They're doing fantastic now, and there are loads of babies coming along! I'm so thrilled. So don't give up if your tank doesn't do anything right away. I didn't feed my tank at all since first starting it, though I was aerating periodically. I still haven't fed my tank actually, because the water is still cloudy as there was so much food in there from the start. I can't comment on the more recent reviews of bad packets, mine came in perfect condition and were shipped with Canada Post with no issues.

Eggs didn't hatch

These seem to take quite awhile to hatch, so be patient

After a previous try at starting a sea monkey colony that my 3 year old knocked over and killed I bought this product to restart my tank. The eggs just didn't hatch. I followed the procedure just like I did the last time but this time after a few days of no activity in the tank I became concerned. Sure enough the eggs did no hatch and no sea monkeys ever developed. The egg pack was expired and me and my son were both very disappointed. Avoid this product at all costs you're better off with brine shrimp eggs at your local fish store. Do not buy this product, it's functionally a scam and I regret purchasing this pack. It gave me the same feeling you get buying an item at the grocery store only to get it home and see it was expired at the time it was sold to you. I hope this product is removed by Amazon before anyone else is taken advantage of.

Bought two packs and neither hatched. Have had sea monkeys for 2 years so do know how to hatch. Bought two packs to start a new one, but nothing at all hatched.