and u begginers are looking for a new pet,they are good starter pets,do not mix them with other fish.
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OH MY GOD. I don't know you, but I love you in some way to say I can't believe someone else has heard of them. I walk around here all the time asking people about them and they never know, AND they look at me like I am crazy. They actually are little microscopic shrimp. They grow out of a package. Haha, honestly they are a good starter pet. It does teach you how to feed your pet all the time and they come with a little magnafine glass to see them. They are actually pretty neat. I can't remember where, but you do not buy them in a pet store. Sometimes in toy sections you can find them. I thought it was a really neat idea. Here I will give you a site to look at them more closely.
I have. Aren't they like sea horses?
yeah! I heared it from yOu!! peace ouT!!
I had them!! I found them after many years of wanting them from seeing them in the back of Archie comics :) They were just getting big enough to see easily and I accidently knocked it over :(
Yes i have
Yes the microscopic sea horse looking thingy, dont they come in a packet and you just add water
Sea-Monkey is a brand name of a hybrid of Artemia salina, a species of brine shrimp. These are a type of fairy shrimp鈥攏ot true shrimp, but a branchiopod. The term Sea-Monkeys (sometimes unhyphenated) is a trademark used to sell them as a novelty gift. They originate in salt lakes and salt evaporation flats.
Sea-Monkeys can reproduce both sexually (requiring a male and a female) and asexually. When the eggs are laid, there are fewer males than females per "litter". This is probably because they are not needed for reproduction. Females stop reproducing with the males when the males are too few.
Sea-Monkeys have been cited in studies of DNA and sexual behavior, primarily because they are commonly available specimens.
They were first marketed in 1957 by Harold von Braunhut as "Instant Life", though Braunhut changed the name to "Sea-Monkeys" on May 10, 1962. Many types of Sea-Monkey kits are now available. The company produces the original Ocean View tank as well as a variety of other products. The Sea-Monkeys company is now part of Educational Insights, and as of 2005 it is headed by George C. Atamian.
Sea-Monkeys are a clever piece of merchandise. In fact, these animals are nothing more than ordinary Artemia salina presented in an 'instant life' fashion. The U.S. Patent 3,673,986 granted in 1972 describes this as "hatching brine shrimps to give the appearance of instantaneous hatching." Adverts for Sea-Monkeys were widespread in comics in the 1970s, featuring drawings of smiling humanoid creatures that bore little resemblance to brine shrimps.
The key observation that allowed unhatched "Sea-Monkeys" to be cheaply packaged, shipped, and handled is that, in certain easily prepared environments, they enter cryptobiosis, a natural state of suspended animation. When released into their aquarium they leave this state and hatch.
Basically, one adds a 'purifier package' on day one. The user is unaware that this package already contains eggs in addition to the salt. At day two, one adds the 'instant eggs package', containing epsom salts, borax and soda, in addition to eggs, yeast, and a blue dye. The blue dye is used to enhance the 'instant life' experience by making the freshly hatched animals more visible. The Sea-Monkeys seen during the second day after adding the 'eggs package' are derived from the eggs added with the 'purifier' package. The food package is a mixture of spirulina and dried yeast. The 'boost' packages mainly contain salts, which induce sexual activity in artemia.
Although Sea-Monkeys have a biological life cycle of one year, the product guarantees that the Sea-Monkeys live for up to 2 years. This should be understood as the colony being able to sustain itself for two years.
They are okay starter pets. They dont live long, but they are interesting to have. You generally dont put them with other fish. Usually you can buy them in kits that already have a mini aquarium to put them in.
They are a fun little pet to start out with!!
Yeah they used to sell them from ads in the back of magazines.
Sea monkeys are brine shrimp. The fish would eat them up.
Yes, I didn't know they were actually alive. I thought it was just a marketing gag to get parents to buy the crap for kids.
I never had them, but there was always an ad for them in the comic books as a kid.
Yeah, they are little shrimp. So of course other fish will eat them!!
Sorry for your loss!!
We bought them and we had a lot in a few weeks. Then they all almost died, but miraculously the ones that were left reproduced, we had so many, then my kid kid spilled the tank!!It was awesome while it lasted, we had all size sea monkeys. I definately recommend
to make a sad story short, I had them, and some how they never hatched. I don't know why, but yeah, they're pretty sweet. Like sea horses
Ah, the magic of brine shrimp and ads in the back of comics..
Never had them, my son has some in his science kit.
yeah don't they look like regular monkeys but they swim right.
Sea monkeys are brine shrimp. They live in salt water and if you put them in an aquarium with other fish weather salt or fresh water the other fish eat them.
yea, I think they are in the "shrimp" family and have a very short life span
Yes they are brine shrimp, they make excellent food for bigger fish ;-)
Of course. What kid who grew up in the 70's/80's didn't.
What however is your question?
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