I remember being endlessly fascinated by the back covers of my comic books when I was younger, there were these miraculous creatures called Sea Monkeys. They apparently miraculously appeared when you added some funny nutrient mixture to water. The image showed little amphibian-primates in a Disney style family unit replete with mandatory castle and happily oogling humans.
Sadly the truth was very far from the marketing as is often the case in life. A sea monkey is actually a brine shrimp (Artemia salina for the biologists among you).
This is what a brine shrimp looks like – nothing like the add is it?
Yes, finding out the truth about Sea Monkeys was one of the greatest disappointments of my life. The others were discovering that professional wrestling is not a legitimate sport, and that Michael Jackson was not the moral leader of Western civilization. Is there nothing left to believe in?
i Actuallly bought was there quite Fasinating although there there isnt really angy thing to do after soo i suggest yu should by a beta fish to feed it to .
IT IS A DISAPPOINTMENT BUT IT IS FUN
u are all fools these little babys rule and there going to take over the world and we will all be slaves to huge sea monkeys!!!!!
LOL! This is one that hasn’t made it to the box-office yet. They will take us as pets and make us run in little air-filled hamster wheels for their amusement.
they are actually realllyy ugly.
Sea Monkeys YES!
I’m actually quite fond of the way sea monkeys REALLY look. They’re fun to watch, and brighten my day.
i want a sea monkey <3
Yea Yea I bought my daughter brine shrimp and told her what they were but that has not changed the fact she loves them! shrimp or monkeys they are Gods Creatures!
Can you believe it…I am 44 today and I just found out what they are!
Well, a long-ache has diappeared from my heart which i arose in me as a kid looking longingly at the comic book ads of these mesmerising ’sea-monkeys’ …but had no way (or US Dollars) for ordering them from India.