My son. who clicker trains our dog and parrot with me, got some amazing sea monkeys from a friend for Christmas. They will hatch tomorrow. I jokingly asked, "Are you going to clicker train them?" He responded, "Of course - if you can train a gold fish, I can ceratinly train a sea monkey!"
I am not so sure. In fact I am really pretty sure you can't train a brine shrimp - but, I could be wrong. We will let you know how it goes. It would make a great book for the "Other Animals" section - Clicker Training Amazing Sea Monkeys. Maybe he can get invited to speak at the Clicker Expo. Maybe I will start a mailing list: SeaMonkey-Click. If we make a DVD and start doing 5 day training camps maybe I can start a new full-time career.
I do believe that my son will try it - he knows how to click, but he doesn't know much about Sea Monkeys yet.
An old ad for Sea Monkeys
An old ad for Sea Monkeys claims:
"so eager to please, they can even be trained"
"Best of all, we even show you how to teach them to obey your commands like a pack of friendly trained seals. What a way to surprise your guests."
How about that? You can find this ad at:
http://www.steveconley.com/pages/ad46.htm
Regards,
Aidan
http://www.PositivePetzine.com
Training Sea Monkeys
Here is an entry from the Sea Monkey FAQ at
http://www.grandpasgeneral.com/shop/seamonkeys.php
What is Sea-Monkey Training?
In the instruction booklet that comes with your new Sea-Monkeys Ocean Zoo, there is information on how to "train" your pet Sea-Monkeys.
They are very sensitive to light and you can do some amazing things with sea monkeys, by turning off the lights and using a flash light near the Sea-Monkey's tank.
As far as primary reinforcers, here is a link to the "Sea Monkey Banana Treats"
http://www.sea-monkeys.com/html/shoponline/detail_bt.html
Apparently, there is a lot more Sea Monkey Training going on than I ever imagined.
Light as a reinforcer?
...that sounds like something worth experimenting with!
Regards,
Aidan
http://www.PositivePetzine.com
What are a Sea Monkey's Primary Reinforcers?
Hi BlueHairBob, any idea what a sea monkey needs and how you might control it (without killing them)?
I had a discussion about training a snake once. The difficulty was that this particular snake apparently had to have live food, all in one go, and was only fed once a week (or something like that).
I figured we could probably control the heat sources in the snake's enclosure, but it all got a bit difficult.
Regards,
Aidan
http://www.PositivePetzine.comÂ