The Sea Monkey revival
‘Just add water and let the fun come up’. Sea Monkeys are here and we don’t know what to do with them. They are graceful and funny, they have monkey tails, they are real aquatic acrobats and they are totally playful and easy to breed. The real name of the Sea Monkeys, of course, is ‘brine shrimp’.
It’s a crustacean that is used to feed fish. It was discovered by an American at the end of the 70s and he turned it into a way of earning money. Some tiny encapsulated eggs hutch out when they are in contact with salty water and they grow up quickly, becoming the amusement of every one 30 years or older who remembers nostalgically those cheap pets of the 80s. Now they’re back in a kit with Sea Monkeys, Triops Triops (similar to the original ones) and NASA Gel.
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