From the sketchbook: I finished my (own version of) FREAKY-DEAKY-SEA-MONKEYS fountain pen sketch. WOOT! This was more fun to draw than a bag full of freeze-dried brine shrimp! Who remembers the Sea-Monkeys form the old 1970′s comic book ads?
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Not only do I remember them but I raised them. I also raised normal brine shrimp and somehow got a mating pair of the larger mutant variety included among the smaller, normal kind. Our fifth grade class was fascinated.
The female here, at least, looks unembarrassed. Love the little touches such as the Band-Aid. You just had to throw in the starfish, didn’t you?
Closest I’ve been to brine shrimp was Mono Lake’s Tufa Towers…
I had a whole family of them? It was amazing how well they could keep living without any attention from the owner, no matter how disgusting their water became.
Our 5th grade class had the colony in a large jar and it got inoculated with algae from the air, somehow, if memory serves. Didn’t know anything we had in Ohio could grow in salt water. At any rate the colony became self-sustaining (even if, as you say, disgusting).
Here’s a salt dome in NE Ohio:
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/4919/V63N02_055.pdf;jsessionid=2729EA373A359DCF6AFDC5A361A94D4A?sequence=1
You really have to appreciate a well placed tail. Patrick has no humility leering at Mom’s goodies that way.
A Sea Monkey type family made an appearance in Phineas & Ferb season 3 I think.
I remember these ads in comics from the 1960s and 1950s.
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