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April 27th, 2000

Sea Monkeys: Magic Crystal Beings

Yeah, I had Sea Monkeys when I was a kid, but this page that lets you announce the birth of your Sea Monkeys is scary. Equally scary is the main site that the previous page came from. -ram

Posted in Childhood Memories

alex January 11, 2007, 2:14 am

u people are so crule i gues u people just don’t know that sea monkeys are living and not meant to kill. im sure that if u were a sea monkey u wouldn’t want to be killed. p.s. if u did want to be killed u are veeeeeeeeeerrrry stupid.

alex January 11, 2007, 2:33 am

if ur sea monkey cage gets gunk or slime in it remove it quikly. sea monkeys can get caught in it and die.

p.s. u can get sea monkeys on ebay, target, or toys r us

[answering raid] January 11, 2007, 2:39 am

NO. i also have the mars container it does not have an entrance

Diana January 30, 2007, 3:59 am

How old are you people? Why are you debating (somewhat poorly) the life of sea monkeys? Granted that their eggs can remain viable for years before hatching – that doesn’t mean that the shrimp aren’t actually alive. That’s like waiting for bird’s eggs to hatch and then declaring the chicks are actually some trick of the mind; some fun toy that we get to raise and kill when we want to; just because it came out of an egg that existed outside of the mother for any period of time.

They are shrimp, they are alive, and it is wrong to cause any animal to expire to satisfy your boredom. Try reading a book, it might do you some good.

Gloria April 26, 2007, 8:41 pm

I just got some sea monkeys and there fun to watch it didnt take but a day for a lot of mine to hatch .. Its cool to watch your kids watch them swim lookin like they have wings …

productsupport June 13, 2007, 6:03 pm

does anyone remember a pill looking thing that you would drop in a jar of water and in a few days you would have crystal like mountains? (Around the same time sea monkeys were at there peak)

Ryan June 13, 2007, 6:11 pm

Yes — and I had them. I think they were called “Magic Rocks” or something like that. They were actually pretty darn cool.

sea monkey lover July 21, 2007, 1:14 am

i soooooooooooooooo want sea monkeys they look so cool! i hope my dad or mom can get them for me!!!!!!!!!11

Sea Monkey Geek July 29, 2007, 9:55 am

Sea Monkeys are and always have been marketed as “instant pets.” The emphasis on them being pets, living creatures, is stressed throughout the instructions as well.
I learned about respecting life and about being responsible by having Sea Monkeys as a kid. It also helped to start a life long interest in science. The booklets that come with the kits are very informative and encourage further reading. I worked at an aquarium (there’s that interest in science continuing) and I think the gold fish bowls were terrible, way worse than Sea Monkey kits.

Taylah November 25, 2007, 10:59 am

Can u bread sea monkeys if so how do u do that

Ryan November 26, 2007, 4:45 am

First you coat them in an egg wash, them dip them in your breading, and then fry them up…

olivia December 1, 2007, 8:12 pm

Hey! watch what you say about kids because i’ve got sea monkeys i’ve had for two years straigh! so if you think no kid cares about sea monkeys,YOU ARE SOOOOO WRONG!

sara September 24, 2008, 11:29 am

hi i am sort of scared of sea monkeys what can i do i wannna kill them but my daugter does not allow me how can stop being scared !!

John February 2, 2009, 10:19 am

Now adays you can get snails that live very well with sea monkeys. They are called coco snails and they do great job cleaning the sides of your ocean-veiwer from all that algae gunk.

dae han September 17, 2009, 1:15 am

hey my friend called noah had sea monkeys for his birthday and then he did it wrong so they never hached.

i am getting sea monkeys on ebay and im not sure they have them on walmart

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