WHAT ARE AQUA DRAGONS?
Aqua Dragons are live aquatic creatures with a scientific name, Artemia Salina from the crustacea family, their eggs have an amazing natural capacity called diapause which allows them to stay alive but hibernating in a dried state only to hatch many years later.
Aqua Dragons have been living in the sea and in salty lakes on the earth for millions of years including while dinosaurs roamed the Earth! Their very efficient way of living and reproducing has enabled them to arrive to today’s day almost exactly as they were millions of years ago.
So the Aqua Dragons are real little time travellers which you can hatch and grow at home, waking them up from their hibernation.
playful learning
Aqua Dragons are fun for kids, and animal lovers who will choose the exact moment they will bring to life their beloved pets!
Hatching and growing Aqua Dragons helps children learn important values like caring for a living being, being responsible by remembering to feed and care for them, and treating live animals with respect. The project is also highly educational in terms of science, anatomy, biology, marine biology and even history and geography where our activity and instruction booklet covers all these areas in an enjoyable way.
WHAT DO AQUA DRAGONS LOOK LIKE?
Each Aqua Dragon has three eyes, a set of two fins which work like gills to breathe and eat with as well as guide their swimming in the water. The males have a mane on their heads (which reminds me of stag horns) which they use to hold the female when mating. The females are longer and are often seen with a bulb on their backs which are actually a egg sacks, they're pregnant and carrying their babies with them!
WHAT DO AQUA DRAGONS DO?
They eat, swim, fight, reproduce, lay eggs or they give birth to their babies and much more… They have a lot of different ways of behaving, you can see what they do and what it means in the diagram below:
Swimming in loops
Laying eggs/birthing AquaDragon babies
Skimming the surface
breathing and eating
Mining the surface
digging for food
Darting from side to side/swimming fast
Happy due to being well fed and oxygenated
Treading water slowly
Unhappy, ladding oxygen or food in the water
Flinching from one side to another
Growing pains shedding their soft shell and growing
Swimming together
Happy boyfriend and girlfriend mating
WHAT IS THE LIFE CYCLE OF AQUA DRAGONS?
If you take good care of your Aqua Dragons they could live up to 6 months each, it will depend in the conditions of water, light and temperature, but if they have good conditions, they will even reproduce in the tank. All animals have an end of the life cycle, but we should accept that is natures way. When that happens, leave the tank in direct sun until the water completely evaporates. When the tank is empty, fill it with water again and hatch those Aqua Dragons eggs that the females were carrying on their backs!
LOVE YOUR DRAGONS SO THEY GROW BIG AND HAPPY!