what's a sea monkey?

[mle421]

my friend brought them up the other day and asked what they really were and i had no idea. are they a form of shrimp? how are they freeze dried but still alive? just curious

 

[Fluff]

I believe they are brine shrimp. Your question about being freeze dried but still alive, I assume you mean the eggs? I don't know how they process the eggs to keep them viable.

 

[loganj]

They are brine shrimp.

 

[mle421]

that's what i figured thanks!

 

[Menagerie]

The eggs are sold as part of the kit and they hatch when added to the water with the "special" sea monkey mixture (aka salt).

 

[Toirtis]

Sea Monkeys are magical little beings discovered in the 1950's...they are worshipped by millions of people world-wide...really.

http://www.seamonkeymania.com/

Needless to say, I was crushed when my father (after what seemed like years of badgering to get me Sea Monkeys), handed this little 5 year-old one of the bags of live Artemia we regularly fed our tropical fish....and I discovered that they were not miniature, naked, web-footed little people whose lives I could run.

 

[lyquidphyre]

ive had about 4 or 5 different sea monkey kits

i want a shirt that says "save the sea monkeys"

 

[Toirtis]

I like (and collect) the vintage sort:

 

[benji-star]

how big can they get

 

[RogerMcAllen]

___ maybe that big

 

[deeni0z]

they have eyebrows!

 

[mysterem]

HA!~ I too had to have sea monkeys so that is could watch the activities of thier whole family! Little did I know they were almost as exciting as watching paint dry!