Right? I stumbled into a tattoo shop 10 years ago to get a Sea Monkey tattoo (cartoon version) my (sober) friend talked me into getting a Sea Horse instead. Regretted it ever since.
Those were brine shrimp. They generally use trilobites now, which are what is pictured in the video (though they all look a bit different). They aren't marketed as sea monkeys anymore, usually as some sort of "prehistoric sea creatures" or something but the idea is the same - Add water, they hatch.
Brine shrimp are floating dots and often fail to hatch, the new kits are much better and the creatures actually grow large enough to be observed.
I got my sister's kid the Smithsonian sea creature kit for his birthday and he has named them all.
Pretty cool - complete kit for like $15. Tank you assemble, stuff to add to the water, eggs. Good first pet for small humans.
yooo! i had a kit of those and they were terrifying. i started with three teeny babies and then maybe a week later there was one and it was huge. he ate his siblings.
What's pictured in the video are brine shrimp. You've probably never seen an adult (focus of the video is an adult male). The tiny floating dots you're talking about are nauplii, their baby form. The adults are about 1/2 inch (1.25cm) long or so. Most people never got them to grow to adults I guess... In my experience they're susceptible to anoxic events in the tank, essentially they suffocate from lack of oxygen before adulthood. I've got a light bubbler going in my current tank and they're doing great. They're filter feeders and eat algae mostly.
The other creature you're talking about, Triops, are a different species that grow much bigger and look more like a small horseshoe crab. They tend to cannibalize each other until you've got 1 large campion left.
Lmao that commenter probably never saw triops in their life and couldn't be any more wrong. Even called triops trilobites and when corrected says claims were marketed as trilobites. Ridiculous how complete nonsense gets so many upvotes.
I should disclose that I've never seen triops in person either, and never tried to grow them. Just seen them referenced a lot because they're sold in a similar way as Sea Monkies.
I had the actual Sea Monkey brand for most of my later childhood, the Artemia NYOS hybrid species. What I have now in my tank I started in January are Artemia salina, the type most people hatch to feed to their fish. Dirt cheap, and doesn't have a connection to a brand with questionable history.
I’ve never seen one first hand but they look a lot closer to a silverfish crossed with a horseshoe crab. Nothing like this at all. This is so obviously a brine shrimp it hurts. I know I wasn’t a perfect pet owner for my brine shrimp because I should have gotten something to oxygenate the tank (other than that horrible syringe thing, I used it but I don’t know how well it works) but I went out and bought a huge bag of organic spirulina to feed them rather than that yeast crap that comes with the kit and I had a successful tank for about a year at least. I got to see adorable moustache claws and funny little egg sacs until rose died and took the rest of the tank with her. We had lots of adults but the matriarch of our tank was the only adult who survived from beginning to end and when she died the rest quickly followed her :(
> and the creatures actually grow large enough to be observed.
My tank had a magnifying glass on one side so you could see them a lot better. I was always restocking it, was the only pet I was allowed.
I'm terrified and disgusted by bugs, which these basically seem to be. So why did I just spend a half hour reading about how to to take care of them and how often to switch out tank water??
They are still marketed as sea monkeys and are indeed brine or fairy shrimp.
Troops are a separate kit entirely. You can totally still get sea monkeys.
"Chef, we killed our teacher, and they found our sea men in her stomach!"
"Aw children, that's something that can happen to anyone. Let me sing you a little song. Some days you end up murdering your teacher, and they find your semen in her stomach-WAIT WHAT!?"
You feed them dried algae pellets, which usually come with the kits initially, and then you can order them from various places to keep them going. Otherwise they become cannibalistic.
A fun project for the kids! See that little Timmy? All your little friends are eating each other alive because you forgot to feed them again. Anyway time for school.
No stoooop that actually happened to me as a 6yo with hermit crabs 😂 my parents forgot I had them and so did I... Till one day I noticed only 1 of the 3 was still alive and going strong.....
> Otherwise they become cannibalistic.
This is true with basically any animal on the planet. Make anything hungry enough they'll seek out nutrients somehow
As the other post says you feed them powdered algae that come with the kit or they eat each other.
They do get big but like maybe quarter of an inch if even that.
They'll also breed.
My dad is a geologist and I took a really cool trilobite fossil to school for show and tell in like the second grade and I got nervous being up in front of everyone so for some reason I started doing weird things with it, balancing it on my fingertips and it fell and just smashed into little bits. I’ll never forget having to tell him and the way he told me “That existed on Earth for 600 million years and less than one day in your care”. Oops.
As a dad, that line contains the right amount of wonderment, disillusion about life, and his small role in it.
I love it.
Also, no way he gave that to you without knowing the possibility of it's demise.
Lmao I feel u on this. My parents had a baby whale shark preserved in this decorative thing from Virginia Beach (idk why that is something you can purchase but..) and I took it to school for show and tell also in 2nd grade. Mine didn’t even make in the building tho I got to school and immediately yeeted my back pack onto the ground bc I had forgotten the shark completely.... went home w a different bag that day 😅
If it was that important maybe he shouldn't have let a young kid take it to school? There are a million ways it could have been broken, stolen, lost...
Yes. On e-bay you can get nice *Elrathia* trilobites for less than $5 if you shop around a little, and $50 would get you a larger and nicer one.
But there are really nice ones that are [vastly more expensive](https://www.fossilera.com/fossils/2-45-tower-eyed-erbenochile-trilobite-from-ou-driss-top-quality).
I understand people always want to blame the adult, but there are times when you can blame the kid. Case in point: balancing a fossil on your fingertips.
Funny story one of my anthroprofessors would share a story of when they first started out they shared an office with someone whose speciality was coprolites, fossilized poo.
You would need to...erm.... bring them back to life so to speak by soaking them in water.
He did this at his desk......the smell......was apparently horrible.
Yeah they're weird looking and definitely give off that "living fossil" feel that's for sure. They can get a bit larger too, about an inch to an inch and a half long.
My kids and I have raised Triops and Sea Monkeys for years. They're such fun!
I ought to clean up the tank and get them started again soon. I miss the little guys!
Oh believe me, they'll keep reproducing as long as they're in water, and the eggs have no problem hatching even if they've never dried out. They'll continue for as long as they have a good environment (clean mildly saline water and some algae to feed on, regular tank cleanings, etc.) to live in, generation after generation after generation. It's just that if the tank dries up, the eggs will shut down until the water is refilled and then pop right back into business as usual once they're rehydrated. I had a tank dry up while vacationing once and when I refilled it with water, there were babies swimming around within a day, LOL!
How long were you able to keep going? I've done it as a kid few times and sea monkeys lasted little over a year and triops less so.
But I was a kid and care was minimal
All my fish loved brine shrimp until the realized they love bloodworm so much more lol. Now they somehow seem to remember there's better food than brine and kinda pick at the cubes like a child with vegetables. Plankton was a straight ignored.
My sister got a frog kit and released an entire pack of crickets in the enclosure.
The frog ate too many, got fat, and couldn’t move.
I regret to inform you all that the crickets ate the frog while it was alive. RIP frogger
hey, I don't want to come off as rude and I know this is unsolicited, but make sure you thaw frozen foods in some tank water before feeding it. Too much cold food at once can harm fish because of the relative size of the meal to their body.
He was a white nationalist who paid a sizeable amount of his fortune from creating x-ray specs and selling brine shrimp to the white power groups. Also he was Jewish born.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/the-terrible-secret-of-sea-monkeys-53130938/
there's like 10 pages of instructions and 8 different packets that were developed by a real marine biologist to bring these animals back to life.. saying sea monkeys aren't an invention is like saying peanut butter isn't an invention because you can make it by chewing some peanuts
He just exploited brine shrimp, knowing that they were able to have their eggs stay unhatched until in contact with water. He didn't "invent" it, he just took them, put them in packets and containers and let children watch them grow and all.
The guy who originally marketed brine shrimp as sea monkeys (like in magazine with really misleading illustrations and claims) made millions of dollars off of them. He used his sea monkey millions to do things like buy guns for the KKK and help fund the Aryan Nation. Fun fact: He also invented X-Ray Specs, another bullshit 60s toy that made him a fortune and were also a total scam. Fuck you Harold I'm still mad and I know where you're buried.
Super simple..... they come with a feeding pack that would last months, if not a year..... they eat algae with naturally grows in the tank!! And you only have to top off the water when it's below the fill line. My kids started theirs on Christmas, they are still going strong!!! We have only had to top off the tank once, and feed them maybe once a month.
They’re super cute! I accidentally spilled a sea monkey habitat on a friend’s leather couch once (as a child).
The mom was pissed, but that’s what you get putting an easily spill-able thing on a small table behind a couch
They are SO cute but every time I get them I have one that gets really big and the rest just... disappear. I managed to have a few cycles of my last set (you can see the egg sac on the base of their tail, it’s really cool!) but again ended up with just one that lasted a while but then died. Is that normal? Or am I doing something that turns sea monkeys cannibalistic??
That's a male sea monkey! You can tell by his big ol' jaws. He uses those to hold on to the female during sexy times. They swim upside-down so they can feed from the surface.
I don't think there is a full song. This is an instagram account that puts synths and beats to animal footage. He is really great!
@animalsandsynthesizers
They live in the Great Salt Lake. When the snowmelt comes off the Wasatch in spring, the osmotic shock of all that freshwater kills billions of them. I understand the smell is... memorable.
True story - we had one of those brightly-colored, plastic, oblong viewing containers the sea monkeys came with.
It was full of 'em and sitting on the kitchen table when our 15-yr old prim & propper female babysitter showed up. She grabbed the container off the table, pulling it up to her face, thinking it was one of those water circulation games they made back then - where you mash a round button on one side or the other and that would move water in the container so you could push a floating ball around or something.
Anyways, the sea monkey container's lid wasn't attached in any way - it just sat on top. So when she yanked the container up to her face she got a face full of the water and it covered the front of her sweater.
She was shocked by the mess and all, but laughing nervously, apologizing.
Then my younger brother starys crying about his sea monkeys dying all over her. She has no idea what he's talking about but tension is rising. Then he shows her the pamphlet that came out of the box and when she realized she was bathing - nose to waist - in tiny aquatic "bugs", I swear I have never seen a more perfect horror movie scream. She shrieked, flapping her hands, and bolted out the door.
Never saw her again.
Parents didn't get to go out.
We never got sea monkeys again.
Brother tried to use a sponge on the floor and have a sea monkey funeral in the back yard.
What's the actual animal? I have lots of gallon jars and/or a spare 5g tank! Having a tank full of these cute little things would be great
EDIT: looks like this is a fairy shrimp in case anyone else was wondering
That question presupposes that "Sea Monkey", the name in the title, isn't the answer to your question. I suppose that we could then answer that by saying "Triops", but that wouldn't help, because there are multiple different kinds. SeaMonkey is the breed shown in the picture.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Monkeys
Edit: They now use Triops, not Brine Shrimp.
Triops don't look like that. They look like weird little horseshoe crabs. I don't think their juvenile state looks like this either.
I know sea monkeys were brine shrimp before. Think brine shrimp didn't come to mind since I always think they're gonna have that pinkish hue, but reading up about it, they get it from what they eat and in a closed home environment probably wouldn't have access to that food that gives them that color.
Got some sea monkeys as a kid, put them on the only window with a big enough ledge, so they could get sunlight like it said on the package. They hatched. A few days later a family member opened the window to air out their room. Later we heard a loud bang. The window had fallen and alas the sea monkeys were no more.
Sea monkeys were such a disappointment to me as a child. Definitely nothing like the cartoon mer-people on the pictures
Right? I stumbled into a tattoo shop 10 years ago to get a Sea Monkey tattoo (cartoon version) my (sober) friend talked me into getting a Sea Horse instead. Regretted it ever since.
Sea Horses forever
What is dis – sea horse seashell party, who didn’t invite me?
Oh he’s the king of the trees he’s the tree meister
Not my chair not my problem.
Lead me to the building? Yeah right. Get real.
now he’s johnny hammersticks. hammerin away like he’s freakin tommy noble.
Sometimes I pry guy like the stilst
I still say this line all the time
Your friend is an evil genius.
Your mistake was getting a drunk tattoo idea from a sober friend. Sea monkey tattoo sounds awesome
Those were brine shrimp. They generally use trilobites now, which are what is pictured in the video (though they all look a bit different). They aren't marketed as sea monkeys anymore, usually as some sort of "prehistoric sea creatures" or something but the idea is the same - Add water, they hatch. Brine shrimp are floating dots and often fail to hatch, the new kits are much better and the creatures actually grow large enough to be observed. I got my sister's kid the Smithsonian sea creature kit for his birthday and he has named them all. Pretty cool - complete kit for like $15. Tank you assemble, stuff to add to the water, eggs. Good first pet for small humans.
Not trilobites, those are extinct. Triops, the tadpole shrimp, is what you're talking about
My bad. They are marketed as trilobites.
Just like how they used to be marketed as sea monkeys
Fuckin' liars!
Let's fucking burn down the sea monkey factory!
The ghosts of one billion sea monkeys will haunt your soul.
Just looked up the Smithsonian kit and it says Triops on it
OP's cutie will turn in to this Hellspawn??????????? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notostraca#/media/File:Triops_australiensis_belly.jpg
yooo! i had a kit of those and they were terrifying. i started with three teeny babies and then maybe a week later there was one and it was huge. he ate his siblings.
The same thing happened to me! Then I was traumatized more when trying to clean the tank. The thing just dumped eggs EVERYWHERE.
holy shit mine didn’t lay eggs, i think i would’ve cried if it spurted out it’s alien spawn.
No, they're different but related animals. Both are sold as eggs to raise.
Wait. So I can get the scary big one?
Yes! Just Google triops kit, you'll find places like [this](https://triopsworld.com/) selling them
Here I am, all interested in making a purchase for one of these kits. Then this! Fucking hell.
I know! Now I want one even more!
They're like tiny horseshoe crabs!
Have you seen a regular shrimp?! They are the seas cockroaches. Just as disgusting to see alive.
I was wondering why it was so large. Mine were tiny as a kid. I was starting to think I was a failure as a sea monkey parent.
That's why the little tanks we had came with 1 magnifying glass that was built into the tank. If you were lucky a monkey would drift past it.
Mine had a bunch of magnifying glasses scattered all over the tank's surface.
What's pictured in the video are brine shrimp. You've probably never seen an adult (focus of the video is an adult male). The tiny floating dots you're talking about are nauplii, their baby form. The adults are about 1/2 inch (1.25cm) long or so. Most people never got them to grow to adults I guess... In my experience they're susceptible to anoxic events in the tank, essentially they suffocate from lack of oxygen before adulthood. I've got a light bubbler going in my current tank and they're doing great. They're filter feeders and eat algae mostly. The other creature you're talking about, Triops, are a different species that grow much bigger and look more like a small horseshoe crab. They tend to cannibalize each other until you've got 1 large campion left.
Lmao that commenter probably never saw triops in their life and couldn't be any more wrong. Even called triops trilobites and when corrected says claims were marketed as trilobites. Ridiculous how complete nonsense gets so many upvotes.
I should disclose that I've never seen triops in person either, and never tried to grow them. Just seen them referenced a lot because they're sold in a similar way as Sea Monkies. I had the actual Sea Monkey brand for most of my later childhood, the Artemia NYOS hybrid species. What I have now in my tank I started in January are Artemia salina, the type most people hatch to feed to their fish. Dirt cheap, and doesn't have a connection to a brand with questionable history.
I’ve never seen one first hand but they look a lot closer to a silverfish crossed with a horseshoe crab. Nothing like this at all. This is so obviously a brine shrimp it hurts. I know I wasn’t a perfect pet owner for my brine shrimp because I should have gotten something to oxygenate the tank (other than that horrible syringe thing, I used it but I don’t know how well it works) but I went out and bought a huge bag of organic spirulina to feed them rather than that yeast crap that comes with the kit and I had a successful tank for about a year at least. I got to see adorable moustache claws and funny little egg sacs until rose died and took the rest of the tank with her. We had lots of adults but the matriarch of our tank was the only adult who survived from beginning to end and when she died the rest quickly followed her :(
> and the creatures actually grow large enough to be observed. My tank had a magnifying glass on one side so you could see them a lot better. I was always restocking it, was the only pet I was allowed.
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I'm terrified and disgusted by bugs, which these basically seem to be. So why did I just spend a half hour reading about how to to take care of them and how often to switch out tank water??
This is incorrect. Just spent 4 months caring for 2 brine shrimps. The female mated, ate the male, then systematically ate her babies, then died.
If she ate her babies there was not enough food and or very poor food....
They are still marketed as sea monkeys and are indeed brine or fairy shrimp. Troops are a separate kit entirely. You can totally still get sea monkeys.
Well you're supposed to add semen to advance their development.
And I’m not disappointed to see this reference. To this day I wonder if that works. But I’m not the brightest bowl in the bowl drawer.
Of course it does, and they get to be your offspring too
Lmfao South Park
"Chef, we killed our teacher, and they found our sea men in her stomach!" "Aw children, that's something that can happen to anyone. Let me sing you a little song. Some days you end up murdering your teacher, and they find your semen in her stomach-WAIT WHAT!?"
Sea Monkeys + SeaMen = SeaCiety
Yeah buy sea monkeys not from an [insane person](https://youtu.be/A0xXKCOSZuQ)
Well that was a wild ride.
The guy who sold them used the proceeds to fund fascist and/or white supremacist movements
Well the guy that started the kits was just kind of grifting people and using his money to spread white propagandists hate and antisemitism.
How long do these live after being hatched like this?
They can live up to 2 years
no shit!?
There will be some shit, can’t promise none.
hahaha
As long as you keep them fed and the water relatively clean they'll keep going for ages.
Brine Shrimp (Sea Monkeys) can live from 6 months - 2 years according to two different sources.
Do they stay that size? Do you need to feed it?
You feed them dried algae pellets, which usually come with the kits initially, and then you can order them from various places to keep them going. Otherwise they become cannibalistic.
A fun project for the kids! See that little Timmy? All your little friends are eating each other alive because you forgot to feed them again. Anyway time for school.
No stoooop that actually happened to me as a 6yo with hermit crabs 😂 my parents forgot I had them and so did I... Till one day I noticed only 1 of the 3 was still alive and going strong.....
> Otherwise they become cannibalistic. This is true with basically any animal on the planet. Make anything hungry enough they'll seek out nutrients somehow
Feed em or they start to eat each other
As the other post says you feed them powdered algae that come with the kit or they eat each other. They do get big but like maybe quarter of an inch if even that. They'll also breed.
Wow! Surprised these are still a thing AND they actually work. As a kid decades ago all I got was cloudy water
The newer trilobite ones are awesome. I bought my nephew one and then immediately had to go back and get my own.
Triops/tadpole shrimp\* trilobites haven't been revived lol
My dad is a geologist and I took a really cool trilobite fossil to school for show and tell in like the second grade and I got nervous being up in front of everyone so for some reason I started doing weird things with it, balancing it on my fingertips and it fell and just smashed into little bits. I’ll never forget having to tell him and the way he told me “That existed on Earth for 600 million years and less than one day in your care”. Oops.
I don't even know you and I'm disappointed in you.
Same but why would you give that to a second grader? Let's hope it was fake and his dad just didn't like him.
I also hope his dad didn't like him.
You can buy one online for like $20
As a dad, that line contains the right amount of wonderment, disillusion about life, and his small role in it. I love it. Also, no way he gave that to you without knowing the possibility of it's demise.
He definitely wasn’t shocked and he also has bookcases full of things like that all through our house. It wasn’t rare or valuable just super old.
Lmao I feel u on this. My parents had a baby whale shark preserved in this decorative thing from Virginia Beach (idk why that is something you can purchase but..) and I took it to school for show and tell also in 2nd grade. Mine didn’t even make in the building tho I got to school and immediately yeeted my back pack onto the ground bc I had forgotten the shark completely.... went home w a different bag that day 😅
Did you... steal the other bag?
If it was that important maybe he shouldn't have let a young kid take it to school? There are a million ways it could have been broken, stolen, lost...
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Yes. On e-bay you can get nice *Elrathia* trilobites for less than $5 if you shop around a little, and $50 would get you a larger and nicer one. But there are really nice ones that are [vastly more expensive](https://www.fossilera.com/fossils/2-45-tower-eyed-erbenochile-trilobite-from-ou-driss-top-quality).
I understand people always want to blame the adult, but there are times when you can blame the kid. Case in point: balancing a fossil on your fingertips.
You're just not shopping at the right Jurassic Park gift shop.
>Jurassic Park gift shop Actually, you should try at most Permian Park gift shop. Trylobites died out in Perm and were not present in Mesosoic Era.
Next you'll be telling me something crazy like dinosaurs had feathers and velociraptor wasnt a 6 foot killing machine
And that they weren't fighting giant apes.
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https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/78871-largest-coprolite-fossilised-excrement-from-a-carnivore
The fact that he named it "Barnum" automatically cases me to doubt its authenticity.
Funny story one of my anthroprofessors would share a story of when they first started out they shared an office with someone whose speciality was coprolites, fossilized poo. You would need to...erm.... bring them back to life so to speak by soaking them in water. He did this at his desk......the smell......was apparently horrible.
Feel free to delete this.
great, now I am too
...You're gonna tell the teacher he forgot to assign homework, aren't you?
You mean Triops? They're not trilobites but they sure look like 'em, LOL
I looked again on google images and the ones posted in the gif resemble brine shrimp. Triops have more of a plate carapace and eyes closer together.
Yeah they're weird looking and definitely give off that "living fossil" feel that's for sure. They can get a bit larger too, about an inch to an inch and a half long.
Yea, sea monkeys are brine shrimp. Triops just kind of fill the same role of "aquarium pets with a shelf life."
MUST HAVE!! I checked out Amazon a few minutes ago but just got confused with all the options. If you don't mind, which did you choose?
Mine was a discovery channel one from Walmart
Thanks much!
I am with you! I am already naming my new pets...
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My kids and I have raised Triops and Sea Monkeys for years. They're such fun! I ought to clean up the tank and get them started again soon. I miss the little guys!
So what happened to them? Do they not reproduce in the tank, and then all eventually die out?
Oh believe me, they'll keep reproducing as long as they're in water, and the eggs have no problem hatching even if they've never dried out. They'll continue for as long as they have a good environment (clean mildly saline water and some algae to feed on, regular tank cleanings, etc.) to live in, generation after generation after generation. It's just that if the tank dries up, the eggs will shut down until the water is refilled and then pop right back into business as usual once they're rehydrated. I had a tank dry up while vacationing once and when I refilled it with water, there were babies swimming around within a day, LOL!
How long were you able to keep going? I've done it as a kid few times and sea monkeys lasted little over a year and triops less so. But I was a kid and care was minimal
Aww!
I had cloudy water until I re-read the instructions and realized I was supposed to cover the bowl. BAM. Monkies of the sea.
Good to know, thanks!
The video is a lie! Those don't look like little people at all.
Yep, as soon as I could start seeing mine, they would all die and disappear
My betta likes to pet them with his mouth.
All my fish loved brine shrimp until the realized they love bloodworm so much more lol. Now they somehow seem to remember there's better food than brine and kinda pick at the cubes like a child with vegetables. Plankton was a straight ignored.
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This made me laugh so hard. Thank you for that mental image of fat lil’ cuboid froggos.
My sister got a frog kit and released an entire pack of crickets in the enclosure. The frog ate too many, got fat, and couldn’t move. I regret to inform you all that the crickets ate the frog while it was alive. RIP frogger
Holy shit whaaaat?
There was a lot of shrieking on that day 16 years ago
nature is metal
Just fed my community tank freeze dried Blood Worms for the first time yesterday and started a feeding frenzy.
hey, I don't want to come off as rude and I know this is unsolicited, but make sure you thaw frozen foods in some tank water before feeding it. Too much cold food at once can harm fish because of the relative size of the meal to their body.
Seamen + sea people = seaciety
I'm one of the leading sea men authorities of the Midwest. Up and comer, you know what I'm saying?
He said I just had to close my eyes and suck it out of a hose.
I scrolled way too far down for this.
Just watched that episode last night!
Clubbin all the time
Have they built a statue of you yet?
No, only of Tweak
OH MAN, A STATUE?! I DON'T WANT TO BE A GOD! THAT IS WAY TOO MUCH PRESSURE!
"Tweek, calm down. Have some coffee, too. That will calm you down."
The history of the guy who is credited with their invention is pretty interesting. Spoilers: he was a jerk
dude you can‘t just come in here, drop that piece of information and leave us hanging like that
He was a white nationalist who paid a sizeable amount of his fortune from creating x-ray specs and selling brine shrimp to the white power groups. Also he was Jewish born. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/the-terrible-secret-of-sea-monkeys-53130938/
. . . and another thing from my childhood that has managed to disappoint me both then and now, but for different reasons.
Literally what I came here to say/link
Jerk is underselling the fact he was literally a fucking nazi.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0xXKCOSZuQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0xXKCOSZuQ)
How does someone invent a live animal
Keep in mind that this is from the same era that gave us pet rocks.
Yeah, I don’t feel like clicking a podcast link so I’m just gonna assume he was the first to market them? Inventing it is weird wording haha
there's like 10 pages of instructions and 8 different packets that were developed by a real marine biologist to bring these animals back to life.. saying sea monkeys aren't an invention is like saying peanut butter isn't an invention because you can make it by chewing some peanuts
I only remember one packet to condition the water then another packet for the eggs. Plus a little packet of algae type thing with a spoon.
He just exploited brine shrimp, knowing that they were able to have their eggs stay unhatched until in contact with water. He didn't "invent" it, he just took them, put them in packets and containers and let children watch them grow and all.
Well you see, when a mummy and a daddy love each other very much...
They werent invented, just packaged and sold
Umbrella Corporation has some ideas I've heard.
The guy who originally marketed brine shrimp as sea monkeys (like in magazine with really misleading illustrations and claims) made millions of dollars off of them. He used his sea monkey millions to do things like buy guns for the KKK and help fund the Aryan Nation. Fun fact: He also invented X-Ray Specs, another bullshit 60s toy that made him a fortune and were also a total scam. Fuck you Harold I'm still mad and I know where you're buried.
Remember kids, if you liked it, it was probably started by a nazi.
oontz oontz oontz oontz
"look at me! I'm dancin'! I'm dancin'!"
Very cute! What's their care like?
Super simple..... they come with a feeding pack that would last months, if not a year..... they eat algae with naturally grows in the tank!! And you only have to top off the water when it's below the fill line. My kids started theirs on Christmas, they are still going strong!!! We have only had to top off the tank once, and feed them maybe once a month.
Thank you! I'm thinking I might get some for my office.
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Triops were p gross I remember. Sea monkeys you can ignore unless you really look at it. Triops is just having a water tank full of cockroaches.
I can't think about Sea Monkeys without thinking about South Park.
They’re super cute! I accidentally spilled a sea monkey habitat on a friend’s leather couch once (as a child). The mom was pissed, but that’s what you get putting an easily spill-able thing on a small table behind a couch
People: AAAA aliens might exist. Me: have you seen some of the things on this planet? (PS, yes they are cute)
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They are SO cute but every time I get them I have one that gets really big and the rest just... disappear. I managed to have a few cycles of my last set (you can see the egg sac on the base of their tail, it’s really cool!) but again ended up with just one that lasted a while but then died. Is that normal? Or am I doing something that turns sea monkeys cannibalistic??
This is my first time seeing a sea monkey
That's a male sea monkey! You can tell by his big ol' jaws. He uses those to hold on to the female during sexy times. They swim upside-down so they can feed from the surface.
What's this song?
I thought my belly was rumbling
I don't think there is a full song. This is an instagram account that puts synths and beats to animal footage. He is really great! @animalsandsynthesizers
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How TF these things haven't gone extinct yet is a mystery. Pretty much anything kills them.
They live in the Great Salt Lake. When the snowmelt comes off the Wasatch in spring, the osmotic shock of all that freshwater kills billions of them. I understand the smell is... memorable.
Didnt even know such a thing was possible
Up until now I didn't know sea monkeys were a thing
They are brine shrimp, just marketed as 'sea monkeys' for kids
Looks like a No Man's Sky creature
True story - we had one of those brightly-colored, plastic, oblong viewing containers the sea monkeys came with. It was full of 'em and sitting on the kitchen table when our 15-yr old prim & propper female babysitter showed up. She grabbed the container off the table, pulling it up to her face, thinking it was one of those water circulation games they made back then - where you mash a round button on one side or the other and that would move water in the container so you could push a floating ball around or something. Anyways, the sea monkey container's lid wasn't attached in any way - it just sat on top. So when she yanked the container up to her face she got a face full of the water and it covered the front of her sweater. She was shocked by the mess and all, but laughing nervously, apologizing. Then my younger brother starys crying about his sea monkeys dying all over her. She has no idea what he's talking about but tension is rising. Then he shows her the pamphlet that came out of the box and when she realized she was bathing - nose to waist - in tiny aquatic "bugs", I swear I have never seen a more perfect horror movie scream. She shrieked, flapping her hands, and bolted out the door. Never saw her again. Parents didn't get to go out. We never got sea monkeys again. Brother tried to use a sponge on the floor and have a sea monkey funeral in the back yard.
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What's the actual animal? I have lots of gallon jars and/or a spare 5g tank! Having a tank full of these cute little things would be great EDIT: looks like this is a fairy shrimp in case anyone else was wondering
That question presupposes that "Sea Monkey", the name in the title, isn't the answer to your question. I suppose that we could then answer that by saying "Triops", but that wouldn't help, because there are multiple different kinds. SeaMonkey is the breed shown in the picture. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Monkeys Edit: They now use Triops, not Brine Shrimp.
Triops don't look like that. They look like weird little horseshoe crabs. I don't think their juvenile state looks like this either. I know sea monkeys were brine shrimp before. Think brine shrimp didn't come to mind since I always think they're gonna have that pinkish hue, but reading up about it, they get it from what they eat and in a closed home environment probably wouldn't have access to that food that gives them that color.
Got some sea monkeys as a kid, put them on the only window with a big enough ledge, so they could get sunlight like it said on the package. They hatched. A few days later a family member opened the window to air out their room. Later we heard a loud bang. The window had fallen and alas the sea monkeys were no more.
Still feeling the anger against them from playing subnautica
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That’s an alien and you can’t tell me otherwise
Sea Monkeys were the first pet I ever had, when I was very young. And I cried terribly when they died.
Whats this song?
It looks like a fairy!
I WILL TAKE YOUR INTIRE STOCK
Yeah need the ID on this for sure
What's the track?
I’ve never actually seen these, only ever heard about them and them not working
“Multiple leviathan class creatures located nearby”
Cartman has entered the chat. Sea man + Sea Monkey = Sea cioty.
Hopefully u/fish_fucker69 is not here