The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Three

Aww, so this is how it looks like. Remind me of white ‘hay bee’ (dry shrimps), the really mini ver­sion. Thanks for the video.

Won­der if those lit­tle suck­ers would devel­oped colours when it grows bigger?

Actu­ally, sea-monkeys are brine shrimps or some­thing. only these ones are sup­pose to be a enhanced mod­i­fied ver­sion. lol. nor­mal brine shrimps don’t live very long (and are usu­ally fish food anyway!)

I applaud you and Naomi for going out to actu­ally buy­ing a pack­age. I recall how I used to be enar­moured by the ads on the back page of old comics as I pored over the car­toon images of these crea­tures with weird shaped ‘crown’ heads and smi­ley faces. Heck they even came as a fam­ily with eye­lashed mummy and junior. I stole these pre­cious moments on the throne cos after my count­less plead­ings, my mum threat­ened to throw my comics away if she caught me gloat­ing over the sea mon­keys. Her rea­son: Dirty, smelly, so ‘ji-jih’ (read: per­anakan slang for dis­gust­ing). My dad’s rea­son: You don’t know how big they might grow, could take over your room (yes, he is a kind soul, never a harsh word.)
But even though Im a grown up now, I just HAVE to ask, you think you can spot a mag­ni­fy­ing glass over them and see what their faces look like? Can or not? Thank you you hor.

Don’t worry too much about Melinda. She will prob­a­bly go ahead and have a much bet­ter career than being signed up to sing what­ever dri­vel the Idol peo­ple write for her.

Miyagi san, you should catch the South­park episode about the Seamonkeys.

Now I feel like going to Toy R Us to buy a set too…

Mmmm.…

I won­der why they are called “mon­keys”. In what way do they resem­ble mon­keys? I sup­pose they are.. “shrimp-faced”?

imag­ine if naomi was clean­ing the tank and placed the sea­mon­keys into a cup one day… and she walked out of the room to dosome­thingget­some­thing­what­ever and you hap­pen to walk in…

and drink the cup of ‘water’.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

miyaki, the giant seamonkey.

yes, i have an active imag­i­na­tion. the video freaks me out!

Hehe… I did a quick search on answers.com on the sea mon­keys to slightly decrease my igno­rance… this is an excerpt of what I found :

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Basi­cally, one adds the ‘water puri­fier’ pack­age on day one. The user is typ­i­cally unaware that this pack­age already con­tains eggs in addi­tion to the salt. At day two, one adds the ‘instant life eggs’ pack­age, con­tain­ing epsom salts, borax and soda, in addi­tion to eggs, yeast, and a blue dye. The blue dye is used to enhance the ‘instant life’ expe­ri­ence by mak­ing the freshly hatched ani­mals more vis­i­ble. The Sea-Monkeys seen dur­ing the sec­ond day after adding the ‘eggs pack­age’ are derived from the eggs added with the ‘puri­fier’ pack­age. The food pack­age is a mix­ture of Spir­ulina and dried yeast. The ‘boost’ pack­ages mainly con­tain salts, which induce sex­ual activ­ity in artemia.

Sea-Monkeys have a bio­log­i­cal life cycle of one year, but thanks to their abil­ity to enter cryp­to­bio­sis, the prod­uct guar­an­tees that the Sea-Monkeys live for up to 2 years. This should be under­stood as the colony being able to sus­tain itself for two years.

Sea Mon­keys as babies are very small and can­not be seen with­out a mag­ni­fy­ing glass.

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No won­der I can’t see any­thing in your Part I. hehehe..

So are you gonna keep the sea monkey’s for 2yrs??
Erm, other than watch­ing it grow… what’s the fun of keep­ing them? *_*

Will u get mis­taken for breed­ing Aedes?

U might tell the guy: boh lah, pai miah nowa­days. every­thing so expen­sive.. I have to grow my own prawns to cut cost..

i am dying for a sea­mon­key update!

No, the Aedes mos­quito has no legs. I saw them on tv the other day. Sea-Monkeys on the other hand, have lotsa legs and three eyes. Or maybe I’ve just been star­ing at them too long.

Erh… ever thought where one can get more sachet 3 when that is gone?