Aqua Dragons Underwater World Aquarium

This is a great present for a child who wants a low maintenance 'pet'! The tank is tiny, and it is worth reading the advice online before set-up which was: use bottled water but not mineral water, keep somewhere above 17degrees, and near natural light if possible. (some of this is not in the pack instructions). It took about 4 days for us to see anything, and they looked like black specks (not white dots) so we'd given up hope. but we kept aerating, and took the lid off each day for an hour or two. Didn't feed until I was sure they'd hatched. Now we have a hundred or so, 2 and half weeks later. Couldn't see them without a magnifying glass for the first week. We feed every second day, they're fascinating creatures and the kids love them.

A breeze to set up, no fiddly assembly - just add bottled water and the eggs and hey presto!! Within 1 day we had a tank full of tiny sea monkeys (as they were called when I was a child in the 80's). They grow very rapidly and also mate - you can actually see which are male and which are female and you can see the egg sacks on the females. We currently have about 8 fully grown adults - 3 of which are pregnant, and around 40 babies. They need feeding once every 2 days and the tank needs to be airated (probably spelt wrong, sorry) it's all explained in the instructions. Enjoy!!

Didn’t come in the packaging as advertised. Looks underwhelming and a little small and cheap to give as a gift which is what I was planning. Little disappointed . Same product as advertised though and probably more environmentally friendly avoiding all the packaging

This didn't work for us and they never grew. Not sure if this was user error. Personally would waste my money on this.

We have many about 30-40 aqua dragons, with new babies hatching all the time. This was a Christmas present for my son, so we have managed to keep them alive very easily thus far! UPDATE: It’s now May 2019 and we still have aqua dragons, I don’t think any of the babies have survived as we don’t have any medium/small ones, but the original set are still going. There are lots of eggs in the bottom of the tank and floating at the top, so if we do eventually loose them all, I’m sure there are plenty of eggs to start the process again. We are still also using the original food packet and have not yet needed to buy more. UPDATE: October 2019. We have lost our last adult aqua dragon, although i’ve counted at least 20 babies still in the tank. He survived two times of the tank being knocked over!!! When I refill the tank I use bottled water not mineral water. We are still using the original food packet after feeding every 2-3 days. UPDATE: November 2019 Three of the second batch of babies grew quite big, but didn’t last until December. So now they are all gone. I could have dehydrated the tank to start again, but after the spillages we’d had, water had gotten between the plastic printed cover and left a salty residue making it hard to see into the tank. I feel we got our money’s worth and they had a good life. Highly recommended.

I Normally don't keep pets because I hate to see them suffer or pass. My daughter had been pestering me for a fish tank and this I thought would be a good start as a taster to the work involved in caring for pets. This was fantastic, all went well, just as the accompaning book said. We started with the eggs on 10th Jan and in a week we had a whole swarm of aquadragons. Except, they started dying by mid March, in spite of my keeping the tank aerated everyday and feeding them at first every other day and then when there were a huge number of them, nearly every day. Then today on 6th of April I just see the last couple of the first batch. And many new ones that have recently hatched. So, keep the expectations real. They don't last as long as it says in the book. The average cycle is more realistically just 3 months, that's half of what it says in the manual.

Worked exactly as described. We’ve had these little pets 3 months now, still going strong. Very little effort required. Highly recommend

Grandparents ordered this for our daughter’s for Christmas. It arrived as explained with easy to follow directions for setting it up. I used bottle water to fill the tank as the water in my area is quite hard. The eggs hatched and we got lots of sea dragons. My daughter’s love them. Now that they are nearing the end of the life cycle (they’ve been going about 2 months now) the water is a bit murkier, but everything seems to still be going well and I’ve been giving a little less food so the water will clear up. Would highly recommend this brand and it worked just as promised.