I did an image and posted it in my gallery called it "Mutant Sea Monkeys" sackrat commented on it and asked the question what are sea monkeys anyway.
Well in answer to that question and to let anyone else that didn't know what they are.
Sea monkeys are actually Brine Shrimp.

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You mean they were real ??!! Are we talking the same thing you used to see in the back of comic books and such when I was a kid ? Go figure ! Brine shrimp eh ? Can you eat them ?

Sackrat yes they are real. I'm on about those little things you saw on comic books when you were a kid. You can't eat them. So if you want to have sea monkeys again just go to a aquarium/pet store and see if the have the brine shrimp eggs. I use to breed my own for my salt and some fresh water aquarium fish i had. I had tank especially set up for hatching the brine shrimp in. Looked good when there were nearly 10,000+ swimming around in the tank.

Technically speaking, I believe you can eat them. You just wouldn't want to. :^)

No so filling either LOL

one tends to think of shrimp as characterless pink blobs......but I've never felt quite the same about them since seeing one of those real-close-up underwater programs. It was about this teeny tiny shrimp that has a symbiotic relationship with an equally tiny fish. The shrimp works on the sand at the sea-bottom, finding food for itself and also stirring up food that floats up for the fish, which is positioned vertically above it. The fish swivels round and round watching for danger, while the shrimp works away. The shrimp keeps one of its antenna touching the fish's tail, and at a danger signal from the fish the pair of them scoot down into a hidey-hole. It was the smartest and cutest thing you ever saw. They looked like such little individuals :^(

Message edited on: 01/12/2005 02:29

pogmahone i thought of shrimp in the same way until i got into the hobby of aquariums and started taking more of an interest in the life forms that lived in the oceans and what roles they played. The ammount of books and documentaries i have read and watched since i started the hobby opened my eyes to things i never knew. One fish that will always fascinate me is the Goby, cute little thing that lives in holes in rocks,coral or the sandy bottom. when they don't swim around they perch themself on a rock or some coral using their two pectoral fins to hold them up. I nick named them the Bulldog of the fish world because thats what they remind me of when they are perched watching out.

oh I didn't know that

You guys need to watch Animal Planet and Discovery Channel more.....

Zhann i use to watch the Discovery channel until foxtel(cabel tv) here put their prices up :)

Brine shrimp Mmmmm.

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I watch animal planet and discovery channel all the time :P well, half the time I'm watching tv anyways... I dun watch that much tv anymore, most programs really suck these days.

The reality of it is...there is too much reality on TV. Way too many reality shows.

Sackrat here you go mate an image from one of the many books i have and some information on the Sea Monkeys(Brine Shrimp). Just over a centimeter in size, the adult brine shrimp Artemia is an extremely wellknown animal because of its importance as a food source for fish and crustaceans raised in home aquariums, aquaculture systems, and in laboratories. One can buy brine shrimp at practically any pet display. It looks like a powdery brown substance but in reality the substance is thousands of cystseggs surrounded by protective cases. When added to water, these cysts will hatch into shrimp nauplii within a few hours. Under magnification, the elongated shape and eleven pairs of limbs give this organism a shrimplike shape, but Artemia actually falls into an order of primitive crustaceans. Various pigments from the phytoplankton that the shrimp eats give hues of blue, green, and red to the otherwise transparent body.

hmm..and the comic books always made them look like Sea Horses..;)

That doesn't look anything like a monkey.

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bandolin the ones they sold and called them sea monkeys didn't look like monkeys either :) Pakled i always kept looking for the one with the crown on its head but i could never find it in all of the sea monkeys i had :(

lol :P maybe one of the others ate the crown :P

Actually,........looks more like a flea to me.