Pets Like Sea Monkeys

The iconic sea monkeys a hit with kids in the 1990s are being sold at kmart starting at 15.

Pets like sea monkeys. Sea monkeys can live up to two years but nobody takes enough care for them for that to happen. They make remarkably easy pets probably one of the easiest in terms of maintenance. This phenomenon occurs in these shrimp naturally which allows them to stay in this state up to 50 years. Being scared of an animal dying shouldn t keep you from getting it.

Sea monkeys are hatched in unchlorinated saltwater and usually appear within 24 hours. Ant lions were also fun childhood pets kept in a butter dish full of sand they ll build a cone shaped trap and await prey. Kids can put ants or other small insects in the trap and watch them get attacked and hauled inside. Sometimes a small tank and or supplementary pouches may also be included with the product.

You should be because you took time and energy to give the pet a good life. Marketed somewhat nonsensically as the world s only instant pets sea monkeys is the brand name for a type of brine shrimp that are sold in novelty kits usually to children. The amazing live sea monkeys as pets. The classic mini aquarium is a maintenance free pet alternative.

In fact sea monkeys are a hybrid breed of brine shrimp created in the 1950s that soon became popular as easy to care for pets and an easy nutritious live food for fish. It s like a plant pet. Get a venus fly trap maybe. The sad thing is they all started dying off and i always found them lying on the bottom of the tank curled up in dust.

Though they weren t marketed that way von braunhut did call the brine shrimp sea monkeys and exotic saskatchewan brine shrimp in his ads. Sea monkeys are nothing but a variety of brine shrimp. According to hogan he called them sea monkeys. This species is famous as pets because they have an ability of entering cryptobiosis which means they enter into a state of suspended animation.

It s like a plant pet. When i was young i kept amazing live sea monkeys as pets and did everything right. Get a venus fly trap maybe. Much more fun than sea monkeys.

They re harder to catch than pillbugs and not nearly as cuddly though. Triops and still take a fair amount of care though they don t live. The product was heavily marketed in the 1960s and 70s especially in comic books and remains a presence in popul. I sent away for numerous extras including banana treats bubble aerator and even a potion to make them fall in love and have babies.

They re the only two instant pets that i know of. Developed in the united states in 1957 by harold von braunhut the shrimp are intended to be added to water and almost always come bundled in a 3 pouch kit with other required pouches and instructions.