Sea Monkeys

[Lisa L from MI]

Anybody have any? For christmas "santa" bought each DD a sea monkey kit. I really didn't think they would work....but now I have 2 little plastic tank thingies full of them!! Of course, the kids do nothing with them....another thing for me to take care of!!!
They have been wanting a hamster or guinea pig...but I know I will just add to MY responsibilities!!

BTW, those sea monkeys are quite ugly!!!!

 

[my3kids]

We LOVE our sea monkeys! They are about the most benign pet we've ever owned. We put a little food in there every week or so, and the circle of life just keeps making its' rounds.


Only trouble is last weekend DH dropped the container and the poor monkeys went all over the floor and window sill. I swept the water back to the jar from the window. The circle started right back again and now I;ve got about 30 newborns. But, I only have about an ich of water and I don't think I can add more because then the salt content would be wrong. Not sure what to do with the little critters now....

 

[Robmom]

I bought sea monkeys for my DD a couple of years ago. It was fun in the beginning feeding them and stuff, but I, too, was the one that had to take care of them, not DD. I hated having to circulate the water. I finally got lazy and skipped days and then they finally died.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

my3kids....I think it is ok to just add room temp bottled water. I know I read somewhere that the "purifier" you put in at the beginning has no salt in it. And as long as there is some "gunk" left on the bottom...it would be ok. Try just filling it like 1/2 way and see what happens. I just tried to find where I read it but couldn't .

 

[RickinNYC]

Funny thing about sea monkeys. Our family was stationed in Japan many, many years aga (Dad was in the military). There is a topping for rice called foo-ree-kah-keh (no idea how to spell it). Anyway, this stuff is dried bonito and sea weed flakes, tiny dried thing a ma jigs. Hard to describe but it's pretty tasty. My dad calls them rice jimmies.

One Christmas, Santa brought my little brother a Sea Monkey kit. What does he do? He hides under the dining table for a while. I poke my head under and find that he's sitting there, sea monkey packet in hand, shoveling the little freeze dried critters into his mouth! And he was loving it!

I was in junior high at the time. Completely and totally disgusted and grossed out. I shouted at him to stop but he wouldn't. He just backed farther under the table like a feral child, and emptied the packet into his mouth. He thought it was the rice jimmies!

To this day, many many years later, I still poke fun at him and occasionally buy him a little kit as a gag.

 

[Maleficent13]

What exactly are sea monkeys? I mean, I know what they are...but what kind of animal are they? Sea horses or something? I've always wondered.

 

[RickinNYC]

They're basically dried brine shrimp that gets reconstitued when you add water and a couple of other things that come with a kit.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Originally posted by RickinNYC
Funny thing about sea monkeys. Our family was stationed in Japan many, many years aga (Dad was in the military). There is a topping for rice called foo-ree-kah-keh (no idea how to spell it). Anyway, this stuff is dried bonito and sea weed flakes, tiny dried thing a ma jigs. Hard to describe but it's pretty tasty. My dad calls them rice jimmies.

One Christmas, Santa brought my little brother a Sea Monkey kit. What does he do? He hides under the dining table for a while. I poke my head under and find that he's sitting there, sea monkey packet in hand, shoveling the little freeze dried critters into his mouth! And he was loving it!

I was in junior high at the time. Completely and totally disgusted and grossed out. I shouted at him to stop but he wouldn't. He just backed farther under the table like a feral child, and emptied the packet into his mouth. He thought it was the rice jimmies!

To this day, many many years later, I still poke fun at him and occasionally buy him a little kit as a gag.

OMG- That is one of the most hilarious things I have ever read on here! Did he go back and look at the cute little sea monkey pictures on the box, after he ate them?

My dad was stationed in Japan too. I loved it there!

 

[Lisa L from MI]

I was a little disappointed....I actually thought they would look similiar to the picture on the carton....with the little face and all!!! LOL!!

 

[my3kids]

We got a package of powder which was actually the eggs. We did sea horses before I think also. They didn't last long. They were not the real things, but something that got labeled as such. These sea monkeys are brine shrimp eggs. We started it last August and have always had them alive since the first hatching in some form or another. The females get big(compared to them) egg sacks on their bodies and they will mate for day at a time. Strange looking critters. But I've never had to stir the water as was mentioned above. They just sit in the window. We don't really have to do anything but feed them every week.

 

[Maleficent13]

I have two thoughts:

Wow....and ewwwww!!

 

[NandP]

My 6yo DS had a nice community of a dozen little critters... they started around Thanksgiving time... now we are down to about 3 left... do they re-produce?

They were quite comical.. the King Monkey would get mad anytime he left his throne and another monkey would hop in and make believe he was king... maybe he had all the others executed, that's why we are down to 3...HMMM?

 

[stevenpensacola]

I like that NandP....a sea monkey coup!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers the ad's in the comic books showing the little sea monkey king (with crown) sitting on his little throne with a sceptor in his little sea monkey hand.

It seems like there was a sea monkey mommy holding her little sea monkey baby in her arms.

Have you taught your sea monkey to do any tricks?

 

[KristiKelly]

We had some and they did great, they sat on our kitchen window sill. One day I was washing dishes and a pot handle knocked the little monkeys off into the soapy water We were able to save a few, but they died a few days later - sniff sniff - poor little monkeys, they didn't talk back, they didn't whine, they didn't leave their toys on the floor - they just swam around in their little world on the window sill. Oh well, now we have a beta fish, hamster & a puppy yep, those little sea monkeys were easy!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

I was ALLLLLLLL excited to get Sea Monkeys when I was a kid. I read about these special tanks you could buy, teach them tricks, give them banana desserts...I was sooo excited! I was thinking they were going to look just like that Sea Monkey family in the comic books.

Well, I was pretty disgusted when I found out they looked like lice, so I flushed them down the toilet. Damn Sea Monkeys.

 

[RickinNYC]

Originally posted by Stepharoonie!
I was ALLLLLLLL excited to get Sea Monkeys when I was a kid. I read about these special tanks you could buy, teach them tricks, give them banana desserts...I was sooo excited! I was thinking they were going to look just like that Sea Monkey family in the comic books.

Well, I was pretty disgusted when I found out they looked like lice, so I flushed them down the toilet. Damn Sea Monkeys.

AH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!

 

[Keli]

My dd Ashli loves sea monkeys! She had a nice tank of them going this winter but the cat knocked it over and the few that didn't end up on the furniture and floor died in the next couple days.

I'm sure she'll get more of them going soon because she likes to put them in her pink "SEA MONKEY WATCH". Yes, she has a stupid watch that is made to put sea monkeys in so you can wear them on your wrist all day, lol. Just what I NEVER wanted to do!