What are Sea Monkeys?
They’re a great pet if you’re a bit lazy. They are very small marine animals similar to shrimps (in fact, I just looked this up, they are branchiopods or “brine shrimps”- their Latin name is Artemia Salina, in case you were interested!) You can purchase the dry eggs in kits from gift shops, place them in salt water where they hatch and grow. You then normally feed them with a specially provided food package containing spirulina and dried yeast which encourages growth and sexual activity. Interestingly they are also capable of asexual reproduction, but this is a slower process. They grow fairly quickly and need very little attention other than regular feeding. Great sea monkey site http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/andrew.harbottle/seamonk.htm And this amused me: http://www.deafgamers.com/seamonkeys.
