Did anyone out there ever order Sea Monkeys. I am really impressed with old comic book ads. Are the products they sell really as good as they appear.
2006-11-19 13:35:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Yeah, I got some. At first, they ran a circus and did the trapeze and all, but later on they got lazy and just sat eating the popcorn. What a rip.
2006-11-19 16:17:30 · answer #1 · answered by Dose of Reality 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Order Sea Monkeys
2016-11-07 07:44:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ordered the Sea Monkeys when I was a kid. They hatched into tiny little organisms, and I've found the same little things in ponds. Not sure what their real name is. It was worth it, though. I didn't feel like it was a rip off. They were fun to watch. The only thing that was really dumb was the ads showed little human-like creatures, and I knew before I ordered them that the ad picture was ridiculous
2006-11-19 14:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by Starscape 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why did those comments get cherished while they do no longer even answer the question? I additionally had the comparable question and the solutions did no longer help. Down balloting for specific. I used a money order that have been given despatched out on 6/28 that's now 8/3 nevertheless no order. I observed as the money order place and it suggested it became into cashed on 7/3 so now what do I do? OP did you ever get yours?
2016-10-04 03:51:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are brine shrimp, a type of fairy shrimp. Occur in very salty water, like hypersaline lagoons, Great Salt Lake, etc. The "eggs" aren't eggs, they are cysts containing larvae and can be totally dessicated, blow around for years, then be hatched out when the conditions are right. The cysts are harvested by the ton, cleaned, dried, packaged and sold to fish hobbyists, aquariums and aquaculture industry and, yes, in packets through comic books and Boy's Life. You can buy packets at any pet store if you want to try it.
They don't hatch out looking like the picture - they have to go through several larval stages before they look like that.
2006-11-19 15:19:20 · answer #5 · answered by Skeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My understanding is that all that dreck advertised in comics was/is trash. The "sea monkeys" were a species of fairy-shrimp as found in mud puddles.
2006-11-19 13:38:51 · answer #6 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i've had seamonkeys. They are a form of brine shrimp. they are hatch with one eye and grow two more and eventually lose the first eye. Ye feed them this green powdery food and after a while they die off because there is really no way to clean out the wee bitty they provide.
2006-11-19 15:13:26 · answer #7 · answered by Audrey Grace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had them at least twice, and they stayed alive as long as I didn't feed them. But, obviously, they were going to die if I didn't feed them. So I fed them (the food supplied) and they immediately starting dying. Oh, yes, there was also a substance for cleaning the water, and that may have killed them. It was sad to see them die, and I wish I could find out how to do it right. Then I would try again, if they are still being sold somewhere.
2006-11-19 13:43:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought a little set-up at toys r us...but my cat drank the monkeys before they grew big enough to see
2006-11-19 13:38:36 · answer #9 · answered by cassiepiehoney 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Artemia salina, brine shrimp cysts.
I used to purchase these little creatures for food for tropical fish; they come both live & frozen. No, they do not look like monkeys!
;-)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemia
2006-11-19 15:47:31 · answer #10 · answered by WikiJo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋