Small correction about something said in this video: Artemia nauplii is not actually a species name, the word nauplii indicates the larval stage of the Artemia.
@rosekay50313 жыл бұрын
Scientists have done the obvious thing ... and launched them into space. 🙀 Not really what I was expecting. Not sure what I was expecting. Not space travel...
@nagydoesstuff3 жыл бұрын
please play bionix its a protist game and do a real life and bionix diferences
@SeaJay_Oceans3 жыл бұрын
Cute ! make a Brine Shrimp T-Shirt, with the funny face eyes, ''No step on Shrimp !'' :-D
@MisterHeroman3 жыл бұрын
So... what IS the species name? Or was calling it a species the mistake?
@themarlboromandalorian3 жыл бұрын
Sea monkeys are boring and thus, suck as pets for kids. Get instead, triops. Way more fun.
@shooby94963 жыл бұрын
All I remember as a kid was these being bought for me and me being really disappointed that what I was looking at didn't look like actual monkeys in the water.
@StaringCompetition3 жыл бұрын
Misleading marketing or what
@hippopajamas3 жыл бұрын
COMPLETELY fair.
@VincentGonzalezVeg3 жыл бұрын
If it was told they were actually shrimp I'd have liked them better
@JamesChessman3 жыл бұрын
Really because I had ones that looked exactly like the comic book drawings, just smaller. The little creatures would smile and wave at me, as they swam around in little nuclear families of mother, father, + kids swimming behind them. Are you sure yours were different?!
@Fr33zeBurn3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I think you got a fake Chinese knock off mine are in the process of developing more efficient steam power.
@patrickturner68783 жыл бұрын
I had a colony of sea monkeys that lived in a mason jar and lived for about a decade on the algae. The jar sat on the window sill and we never had to do a thing. They lived and reproduced entirely on their own. My parents tossed them out when I went to college. I think the key to their longevity was sitting on the window sill which allowed plenty of light to allow algae to grow quickly and prolifically. I remember being mad at my parents when I came home in the summer and the jar was gone.
@bella_ciao46082 жыл бұрын
I mean yeah throwing away a jar with live animals in it (which were your pets) is pretty shitty of them
@patrickturner68782 жыл бұрын
@@bella_ciao4608 Well in their defense they said there weren't any animals in it at the time. But they didn't know that the jar went through boom and bust cycles where sometimes it was chock full of them and others where there were none for a while until the eggs for the next generation hatched. There was an amazing amount of diversity in there though. Some had red eyes and some black and some grew HUGE and others stayed small.
@BlueSky-kh8ue2 жыл бұрын
@@patrickturner6878 so did the next generation eat the previous generation or was there just a lot of dead carcasses floating around?
@patrickturner68782 жыл бұрын
@@BlueSky-kh8ueNo carcasses. The only thing left behind when they die is a tiny exoskeleton and I assume they fell to the bottom of the jar and eventually dissolved. The bottom was green with algae.
@ashleysmith95162 жыл бұрын
@@patrickturner6878 they should've asked first, it isn't their place
@anemoneyas3 жыл бұрын
I had those as a kid as well. They seemed pretty easy to take care of and were doing fine until we left them with the neighbors during a vacation and they fed them about 100x what we told them to and they all died from the resulting ammonia. Since then I have graduated to keeping real shrimp as pets.
@frogmonkeymoo3 жыл бұрын
Fab! Shrimp are surprisingly entertaining to watch. I’m planning a tank for neocaradina but would love to keep Pinocchio shrimp one day. For now I have asellus aquaticus, basically the underwater cousin of the pill bug, and they are quite clownish and always busy, but not as pretty as shrimp. Which do you keep?
@mo_town3 жыл бұрын
@1990skelly red cherry shrimp are amazing little pets to keep. Very entertaining to watch swim around the tank and they breed quite quickly :)
@lucashernandez8773 жыл бұрын
Hey almost the same thing happened to me
@NovaGirl83 жыл бұрын
@@mo_town how do you keep populations at a reasonable level?
@youtube.commentator3 жыл бұрын
@@NovaGirl8 I make tacos out of mine
@nadapenny85922 жыл бұрын
My bff gave me sea monkeys when I was little and I remember I was disappointed until she, and we were only like 7 or 8, explained to me how they were tiny, essentially microscopic ANIMALS that could have been living in dried eggs basically hibernating for years waiting to hatch when they knew conditions were right. She was always ahead of the curve on science things like that and I think I owe a lot of my interest in science to her. We're 27 now and I haven't talked to her in a few years but I know she's a marine biologist working on orca migration stuff
@Thaligamathor2 жыл бұрын
That's boss!
@bd84132 жыл бұрын
Is that Tracey Jones? Think I might know her!
@justpassingthrough79902 жыл бұрын
Holy shit that's amazing! I love this
@crypticzealot7055 Жыл бұрын
Go talk to her
@sneakyybeaan Жыл бұрын
🥲 i love this
@johndunne36092 жыл бұрын
As a kid I accidentally drank the sea monkeys confusing it with a cup of water. My mother called the Dr fearing potential poisoning 😂. The Dr was like ma’am it’s just brine shrimp he’ll be fine 😊
@AbbiZika Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@gunsmokeandghouls Жыл бұрын
So, you were impregnated by sea monkeys
@filiptrajkovski2198 Жыл бұрын
Hey it killed miss chokeseondik so you never know
@tyciendawarren2445 Жыл бұрын
Lmao 🤣 Dope story ! ✌🏾
@STOCK_FISH110 Жыл бұрын
@@tyciendawarren2445 he got extra protien
@nyxh.75673 жыл бұрын
When I had them as a kid mine were so easy to take care of when I forgot about it (or I may have thought they were dying out) they became a closed ecosystem. Algae and dead brine shrimp became their diet after a while and it freaked me out, they were huge and many generations lived and died. Retrospectively it was a very cool science experiment, seeing how there would be great booms of population then most would die, but at the time there was this horror of truly witnessing the circle of life for the first time.
@quitlife92793 жыл бұрын
Waiting for most humans to die any time now.
@kingaha36573 жыл бұрын
@@quitlife9279 That's worse than white supremacy
@okamireborn14063 жыл бұрын
@@kingaha3657 Is it? Odd comparison to make.
@kingaha36573 жыл бұрын
@@okamireborn1406 Most humans dying is worse than a hateful subculture yes
@okamireborn14063 жыл бұрын
@@kingaha3657 Most humans dying would be a lot better for the planet as a whole. Vs. White supremacy which is just evil and has no benefactors.
@miboogaroo3 жыл бұрын
Had some a couple years ago. Noticed one was dragging something on its tail so I gently removed it so it could swim better. From then on whenever I went over this one would swim to the side closest to me and just swim in circles and look at me then keep "perfoming" and followed my finger if I traced the side. Was utterly amazed..
@mindamindaminda3 жыл бұрын
he loved you
@miboogaroo3 жыл бұрын
Definitely felt like it, like I was important to him.
@athomenotavailable3 жыл бұрын
I hoped it lived a happy life and went over the rainbow bridge
@glw51663 жыл бұрын
You were its friend.
@miboogaroo3 жыл бұрын
@@glw5166 I like to think that. 😊
@robertkees60487 ай бұрын
What most people don't know is that Sea Monkeys grow to the size of their tank. When I was a kid I threw my Sea Monkeys in the pool and three months later they attacked the neighbors with a tire iron. We still don't know how they got a tire iron but they did. Be warned.
@JaySon-m4oАй бұрын
😅😅🤣
@a.y.t.a.s.494Ай бұрын
Lol
@regularguyknifechannel57532 жыл бұрын
I got a “Sea Monkey” kit for my 9th birthday, mine came with a little catalog for various accessories. I went crazy and spent all of my birthday money on sea monkey junk from the catalog……all before I hatched my first batch. Of course shortly after hatching them, I knocked over their little tank and they became “Rug Monkeys”. A week later a package was delivered containing all of the “banana treat” and a sea monkey “race track”.
@SirenaSpades Жыл бұрын
I was obsessed with that catalog. I eventually had almost everything in it. If you look on Ebay, the stuff is going for a fortune.
@lacewinglml3 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid I found an unopened box of these guys. I decided to try it to see if any hatched from the pretty sure 30 year old packaging. My mom had no hope, I was curious as to what they actually where. So while waiting between one package to the next I did research, found out what they really where. Talked my dad into driving me to a fish shop so I could get better food for them if any did hatch. And surprise, they hatched. Not many, but there were little shrimp in the tank. So I went out again to get a better tank and set up, transfered them and have adored aquarium critters since.
@ariannasv222 жыл бұрын
I heard their eggs can last for many years, if not hundreds, and that's part of the reason they've been around for 100 million years. I once watched a series about this guy who had a very old box of them, decades old, and they hatched and lasted for about a month before they died.
@bigsmall2462 жыл бұрын
30yrs is pretty short to be honest. Also it also depends on the storage conditions, but these guys are basically designed to survive the apocalypse.
@AdamOwenBrowning2 жыл бұрын
anabiosis/cryptobiosis is utterly fascinating, like how tree seeds from thousands of years ago - kept in the right conditions, can live and grow after very very long periods of nothing.
@jellysquiddles31942 жыл бұрын
I remember my paleontology professor doing experiments with really old eggs. He managed to hatch several species of brine shrimp from 30 000 year old eggs. Yeah... 30 millenia. Under the perfect conditions these little buggers eggs last LOOONG! It's really important that theres no moisture / air though.
@American-Plague Жыл бұрын
@@ariannasv22"Decades old" like the decades in the OP's comment?
@Azzarinne3 жыл бұрын
My mom had sea monkeys as a kid. Before adding the 2nd packet, though, she noticed tiny movement, and realized there was something alive in there already. She thought these were the food, and so, not having the heart to unleash assumed predators on them, she just kept the "food" as pets.
@megamushroom2 жыл бұрын
Azzarinne wow thats so whole some omg :')
@kyovvaii2 жыл бұрын
The 1st packed is actually the sea monkey eggs and 2nd packet is blue dye the blue dye makes it easier to see the sea monkeys the sea monkeys were already hatched before you put 2nd packet in how cool is that?
@megamushroom2 жыл бұрын
@@kyovvaii yes
@megamushroom2 жыл бұрын
@@kyovvaii very cool!!!
@kyovvaii2 жыл бұрын
Oh Noo I didn't finish the video so I just say that 😅
@rgibson73053 жыл бұрын
Hank has the *best* "I can't believe I'm reading this" voice.
@b34k83 жыл бұрын
There is 69 likes and it's perfect.
@mikeyme903 жыл бұрын
1
@MumrikDK3 жыл бұрын
Zefrank!
@EmilyXiong19993 жыл бұрын
I've watched this for a while and never realized it was Hank. His voice is much more mellow in this series.
@DravenXaves3 жыл бұрын
i was watching and i was like fuck me that sounds like hank
@luvlols44622 жыл бұрын
My dad bought a giant salt water aquarium and dumped my little plastic water castle of sea monkeys in there. I was mad because I couldn't see them anymore but he told me I was being selfish. That they had more room this way and were happier. A few days later he added the damsel fish.
@kawaiigoomy34874 ай бұрын
That’s… cruel. 😢
@PlayerTenji953 ай бұрын
🫤
@KlausMueller2 жыл бұрын
Oh dear, that was a journey back in time almost 50 years. As a child, I was fascinated by the sea monkeys. The ads in the comic book made it seem like they were actually shaped like monkeys or almost like humans. It was really exciting for me as a kid
@greasylimpet332310 ай бұрын
Yes, they had crowns and everything! I was so disappointed to find what they really were!
@waxwinged_hound3 жыл бұрын
"Scientists, of course, have done the obvious thing and sent these cysts into space." I was not expecting to burst out laughing from an episode of Journey to the Microcosmos but here we are.
@bridgitmuskaangomes72723 жыл бұрын
I was looking for exactly this comment 🤣🤣
@hi.moriarty3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@thecasualatvguy6172 жыл бұрын
I mean what's more scientific than shooting random shit into space?? I'm pretty sure there's some floating chimps and dogs up there now too.
@TheRogueWolf3 жыл бұрын
1:16- "That's not a name that suggests a particularly exciting pet...." _Artemia:_ "Aw, c'mon! Look at this awesome dance I'm putting on here!"
@krankarvolund77713 жыл бұрын
To be honest Artemia seems a lot more interesting than Sea monkeys or Brine Shrimps to me.... But maybe it's just because I'm fond of Greek mythology XD
@ЕкатеринаКатюша-х4к3 жыл бұрын
Don't you mean 0:41? At 1:16 he's talking about a show
@bridgitmuskaangomes72723 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@danielm.14413 жыл бұрын
Hank: Welcome to the first episode of our fifth season. Me: Journey to the Microcosmos has seasons?!
@saragates13373 жыл бұрын
As much as I love unexpectedly hearing Hank's voice, what happened to the dude who *was* doing the narration? I was literally saying to my SO as I opened this vid that the OG narrator's voice is like butter and he can talk at me all day....then I opened the video to find Hank. I'm not disappointed, but curious - what happened to OG Microcosmos??
@gondolajesus48643 жыл бұрын
@@saragates1337 Hank has always been the narrator
@GoldInforcer3 жыл бұрын
oh my god your'e right, I NEVER REALIZED
@saragates13373 жыл бұрын
@@gondolajesus4864 WAT That...is news to me. I'm sorry; evidently I'm just an idiot
@MatthewSmith-sz1yq3 жыл бұрын
The season 3 finale plot twist was crazy!
@gurtsmunta1 Жыл бұрын
In the 1970s I saw an ad for sea monkeys in a comic and desperately wanted them but in the UK I couldn’t get them ,unknown to me we were feeding them to my fathers salt water aquarium fish and it was my job to top up the little dish with eggs and pour the little shrimps in to feed the fish ,I was gutted years later as a father who bought them for my daughter and seeing them brought all those memories of desperately wanting them as a child and watching them being eaten.
@fuzzy_wuzzy45 Жыл бұрын
Well, that escalated quickly 😅
@gurtsmunta1 Жыл бұрын
@@fuzzy_wuzzy45 😂
@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz Жыл бұрын
I lived in the UK in the early 70s myself (we were Americans), and ordered them from an American comic book. Unfortunately, none of the eggs hatched for some reason. I was incredibly excited, and then incredibly disappointed.
@Thunnini_Tom Жыл бұрын
Imagine existing for 100mil years then being packaged as a toy
@wendychavez53483 жыл бұрын
I had a friend in high school who actually had a 30-gallon tank of sea monkeys that he had started maybe 10 years before we ever met. It was pretty awesome. Only sea monkey farm I've ever known to survive more than a couple of months, and it really was a beautiful setup.
@annamolitoris20123 жыл бұрын
I remember looking at these in my grade school biology class! I didn't see anything in the microscope at first so I stared really hard only to have its giant face swim into view and freak me out 😆
@CosmicShieldMaiden3 жыл бұрын
When I was supposed to be looking at blood cells In bio class I was just looking at all the floaters in my eyes for like 10 minutes until the teacher came over and checked my scope. I looked back in and actually saw what I was supposed to look at. I was so embarrassed.
@caspianchan23713 жыл бұрын
Wow this reminds me with my own goof. At our classroom I caught a stray fruit fly and wedged it between two specimen glass to keep it still, crushing it. When I looked at it through the microscope I saw something still blurry but I was already horrified that I didn't bother looking again. Like seeing an eldritch horror, kids version.
@Cec9e133 жыл бұрын
*swim swim swim swim swim* Hellooooo.... Why you scream?
@annamolitoris20123 жыл бұрын
@@caspianchan2371 I remember from genetics class...trying to phenotype the critters but accidentally decapitating them. And you saw the evidence in the viewing field. Scary, sad, and gross.
@raymondrocha7973 жыл бұрын
@@annamolitoris2012 You murderer!
@murielvaillancourt38553 жыл бұрын
When young in France, 60 years ago, we had Artemia in a « scientific comic book », not very popular but that i loved so much! Each month, i received something new. I had Jumping Peas from Mexico, false ink stain, sprouting weird beans, herbarium notebook, tiny fossils like ammonites, even a metal nail to put in a window sill with a thread and a map to observe each night the movement of stars and many interesting things! It was the source of my passion for cosmos, wildlife, scientific facts and my current curiosity for life!
@Dj3xilM4n3 жыл бұрын
j'ai déjà entendu parler de ce journal !! quel était le nom de cette revue ?
@Ugly_German_Truths3 жыл бұрын
Sounds similar to the german YPS comicbook, whose most famous "extras" were a solar blimp (basically a black garbage bag that you could fill with air and tie closed, the sunlight then would heat up the bag and turn it into a hot air balloon that might with luck carry 100-150 grams of something as payload) and the sea monkeys, but they had lots of stuff, from serious studyguides like your herbarium notebook to plastic dinosaur skeletons or "detective" kits like you'd also get in Micky Mouse comics.
@hobosorcerer3 жыл бұрын
What was this comic book called? Seems very interesting, honestly.
@misanthropichumanist47823 жыл бұрын
@@Ugly_German_Truths I remember watching Mr. Wizard as a kid. He demonstrated the "solar blimp," too. Worked (ok-ish) with typical dark garbage bags in the 90s, at least. Haven't tried it with modern ones.
@YourCrazyOverlord3 жыл бұрын
I'm fascinated by a world where a sweet 65+ year old French woman is commenting on a KZbin video, on a channel started as a side project, about brine shrimp. Earth is crazy y'all.
@rodchallis80313 жыл бұрын
A million years ago, when I was a kid, a local naturalist turned us on to Fairy Shrimp. We thought them exotic, being that we were half a continent in any direction away from the sea, and they were shrimp. We caught them in vernal pools, as soon as the ice was off the smaller ponds that would dry up in late spring. So we had our "Sea Monkeys" without having to send away for them. Those of us with aquariums also found out they were a food favourite for the fish. On comic book ordering, I spent my allowance on Revolutionary War figures, which, shockingly, proved to be good value.
@hunterflowerson44603 жыл бұрын
And now you’re a Marxist
@Dragrath13 жыл бұрын
To be fair branchiopods the group fairy shrimp are part of aren't actually shrimp and are actually the sister group to hexapods and Xenocarida (remipedes + cephalocarida("horseshoe shrimp" which are also not shrimp)) basically they are crustaceans that avoided competition by colonizing ephemeral(vernal) pools and hypersaline lakes so they are far from shrimp because they aren't shrimp. ;)
@hunterflowerson44603 жыл бұрын
@@Dragrath1 nerd
@Bacony_Cakes3 жыл бұрын
@@Dragrath1 ...What a ripoff. Not even shrimp. Smh.
@hunterflowerson44603 жыл бұрын
@@stereomachine Do you even know what that means lol
@larch2329 Жыл бұрын
Never thought I would watch a lore video on brine shrimp, but here we are
@JR-ho5qm Жыл бұрын
Growing up in Saskatchewan these shrimp are found in most grassy slews. I spent hours catching them. They range in colour from orange to green. They are pretty cool!
@Sigwaltherglock17 Жыл бұрын
Thank u for sharing this beautiful experience
@theworldoflivvy3150 Жыл бұрын
Huh, I've only ever seen water fleas! (And water beetles and damselfly larva... and leeches.) Guess maybe I should go slough hunting before they freeze over. If nothing else I'm sure I'll see some fat snails.
@JR-ho5qm Жыл бұрын
@@theworldoflivvy3150 they only seem to live through May,June,and a bit of July before laying eggs and dying off. Also I only ever see them in shallow grassy slews not dugouts.
@johnryanglean2430 Жыл бұрын
I'm a filipino and my brother right now is on Saskatchewan hahaha i'm gonna mention this to him
@ellerenee43552 жыл бұрын
For me, an important part of the fantasy and lore grew out of artists rendering of the brilliant anthropomorphic cute factor. Sad that there’s no mention or credit for the artists. Those pictures were everything. 😊
@BoopSnoot Жыл бұрын
And hugely misleading. Equally funny is that being a "white supremacist" ruined his career, whereas today you can openly say that you hate white people and still show up on mainstream TV, radio, magazines, and other entertainment to great applause. My how times have changed!
@prof.scheere6933 Жыл бұрын
True. The south park episode is fun too
@chestnut4860 Жыл бұрын
"anthropomorphic cute factor" The designs are creepy as shit
@simonpark843 Жыл бұрын
Joe Orlando was the artist who drew those pictures.
@leslieannvanhumbeck7630 Жыл бұрын
@Chestnut nah they're adorable. 😅
@sjoervanderploeg43403 жыл бұрын
It is just amazing to see the fluid inside the atremia flow in a specific direction, you can also observe its middle tract contracting from back to front causing this wave!
@heathermcnally7686 Жыл бұрын
yes I loved that! so incredible
@AbrahamSamma3 жыл бұрын
I remember feeling so BAD when my seamonkeys died when I was still a child. The showmanship worked. The man sold and we bought in spades.
@kimberlymoxley1043 жыл бұрын
I sell them in a bauble on a necklace with a salt packet and directions for a "home". As SEA DRAGONS and WATER FAIRIES.
@KamenRaiden3 жыл бұрын
Dont feel bad about the brine shrimp. Feel bad about being a huge weeb.
@la9123 жыл бұрын
@@kimberlymoxley104 Wow
@user-ye9bc7nw2c2 жыл бұрын
@@KamenRaiden cry
@KamenRaiden2 жыл бұрын
@@user-ye9bc7nw2c thanks for letting everyone know you're a weeb as well. Lol. Crying but only of laughter.
@joshuarichards24212 жыл бұрын
1:31 I THOUGHT I DREAMED THAT SHIT HOLY CRAP. Loved it as a kid, could never find mention of it or footage or ANYTHING when I tried to find it again years later. Never realized they were sea monkeys, I was 7 at the time. Just solved a childhood mystery for me, thanks.
@frenchfries2148 Жыл бұрын
When I was like 13 I got a sea monkey kit. After three days I didn’t see anything growing , so I tucked it away in my bookcase. A few weeks later I came across it again and had hundreds of sea monkeys swimming around
@buildtherobots3 жыл бұрын
I tried my hand at raising the monkeys of the sea when I was living in the dormitory in college. It was just as fraught with disaster as most people's experience. Sea Monkeys and their little tank/cup don't travel home for Thanksgiving well.
@naturalnashuan2 жыл бұрын
I had land hermit crabs as my dorm room pets. They drove my roommate nuts with the clacking noises they made moving around in their enclosure. Totally worth it!
@b1shybob3 жыл бұрын
I had a watch that could hold a couple Sea Monkeys and you could carry them around with you on your wrist. There was also a race track. They actually swim automatically against any current so you would pump water down the 'track' and see which one would reach the finish line first. I was pretty into them. I remember the plastic dropper you would get with the kits, in order to transfer them around, was called the aqua leash.
@skussy692 жыл бұрын
Oh my god I had the same watch. Totally forgot about it until now
@wannabewyvern2 жыл бұрын
kinda gross how they’re treating live animals as toys imo
@CrescentUmbreon2 жыл бұрын
@@wannabewyvern Yeah, live animal trinkets are probably still a big thing in some countries, but it's an awful, slow, nauseating death for the poor creatures who are stuck in a bubble of limited resources until they starve, suffocate, or succumb to illness in their own waste Edit: for the uninformed, I'm referring to trinkets carrying all manner of creatures, not just sea monkeys
@zedmeister88322 жыл бұрын
I had the little globe necklace, about the size of a shooter marble. Fun stuff.
@joelscott73512 жыл бұрын
@@CrescentUmbreon Lmao its brain is so small i don't think they are conscious dude,
@esgonofroide Жыл бұрын
I’ve watched it when I was a child in Brazil. I just had some short flash backs, you have reactivated my child memories and I went to look for it and is soo cool to remember something you don’t for years.
@SeriviusR2 жыл бұрын
Dad bought me sea monkeys as a gift, probably because I wouldn't stop talking about them. I remember how excited I was, carefully following all the instructions; having set it up and gone to school. Not telling Mum what was in there becoming the fatal flaw, as she tipped them down the drain before hatching... RIP Sea bro's, I'll never forget you 😆
@daniel_dumile3 жыл бұрын
Hmm I was hoping they bought the brand and described more about how hard it was to keep alive. That’s all I remember was them dying really fast and blaming my brother for killing them
@krankarvolund77713 жыл бұрын
Yeah a little disappointed, I was expecting more 😅
@tabithamotta87533 жыл бұрын
Alright, I can't hold it in, I've tried. Brine shrimp are CUTE! They're fascinating, they look pretty when swimming, and I love watching videos of them. I think they're under appreciated
@insertrandomname23033 жыл бұрын
Ikr!!
@Mar135793 жыл бұрын
Buy a sea monkey kit ♥️ they are only $20 in Canada, and can be bought at toy stores. Mastermind toys, ect
@shadowsun57043 жыл бұрын
I would have started sooner if the cartoons didn’t freak me out as a kid. If the advertised cool underwater fluffy fairy shrimps I’d buy it.
@-TheBugLord3 жыл бұрын
They are great fish food too
@De_Klapperkoning3 жыл бұрын
my scarlet badis really like them as well. like they don't want anything that is not moving on its own xD..
@GaasubaMeskhenet3 жыл бұрын
I'm so ashamed of my attempt at sea monkeys. we do not treat pet keeping with the gravity that it deserves
@valley_robot3 жыл бұрын
Well said my friend
@GaasubaMeskhenet2 жыл бұрын
@Ghost i feel like that's the best outcome most of us could have hoped for with how little good care info there was for them. Yours never died or suffered because they never lived to begin with
@srobeck772 жыл бұрын
I treated mine well, u animal abuser
@SasquatchAngry2 жыл бұрын
So ashamed? fucks sake you're a bit dramatic lmao
@pianoartist8830 Жыл бұрын
Probably the most real comment here. I remember as a kid they were marketed as aquatic aliens and had this cheap small gimmicky plastic environment that came with them lol.
@musicinthewildwood Жыл бұрын
Hey, Hank! I bought those from an Archie comic about 10 years before you did (maybe a little more, ugh) and just wanted to remark that what you showed as the packaging was considerably more honest than what I saw! You know the Howie Mandell show? Yeah, well, the drawing accompanying the ad *I* answered looked a lot more like THOSE "sea-monkeys" than like actual brine shrimp! A cute family - a mom, a dad, a brother and a sister, all with heads whose tops took a crown-like form. I'll bet there's an image of that old ad somewhere online. I don't remember the dye, though - I remember sitting up with a flashlight until it was dark (it was summer, of course) and as instructed, I held it up to the side of the fish bowl when I'd poured in the second packet. The light shone through tiny swimming critters! I'll always remember that moment, also when they finally went down the toilet, dead and smelling like, you know, dead shrimp. Ugh. When they matured I can only say I was a bit nonplussed at their appearance. I did my best with them, though. I'd say that altogether they lasted about 2 weeks. I know I wasn't more than 10 at the time.
@MateusStock Жыл бұрын
Too bad we can't post photos here... bought an Archie comic at a used book shop, from 1973. That's what lead me to this video! The sea monkey ad! Exactly like you described.
@leslieannvanhumbeck7630 Жыл бұрын
I liked the careful placement of Papa Sea Monkeys tail in the artwork. 😂
@johnwalters13413 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure "Artemia nauplii" isn't a proper binomial name. The first larval stage of most crustaceans is called a "nauplius"--plural "nauplii."
@journeytomicro3 жыл бұрын
You are correct. We're going to post a pinned comment so we can highlight that correction.
@ignasias3 жыл бұрын
I remember learning about sea monkeys as a small child from the show Rugrats. At Tommy’s house, in the living room, Chuckie is showing Tommy his new pet Sea Monkeys (mispronounced by both Tommy and Chuckie as Sea “Moneys”) that his father, Chaz recently got for him. Tommy comments that they only look like a bunch of specks to him, and Chuckie replies that he’d also look like a speck of he were that small. Chaz and Stu walk into the living room from the kitchen and Chaz points out to Stu out that he thinks it’s wonderful to see the babies interested in the Sea Monkeys, and he also mentions that Sea Monkeys were also his first pet; Stu skeptically states that he doesn’t think “freeze dried brine shrimp” falls in the pets category, and Chaz replies: “What do you mean Stu? They’re the perfect pet; you don’t have to walk them, you barely have to feed them, and they don’t leave any nasty surprises in your slippers.”
@SniperJade712 жыл бұрын
I can hear this in my head lmao
@warped_rider2 жыл бұрын
Then grandpa drank them by accident
@QQ-yi6yg Жыл бұрын
@@warped_rider WHAT'DIDYA SAY THERE SCOUT? I HAD MY AID TURNED DOWN
@kR-qj7rw Жыл бұрын
jesus this is a throwback
@heathermcnally7686 Жыл бұрын
I hear their voices saying sea money lol I forgot this episode
@Rubrickety3 жыл бұрын
The real trick is to keep them alive long enough for them to turn into crabs.
@speemus62233 жыл бұрын
💀💀💀
@zoe201762 жыл бұрын
what really?
@Liezuli2 жыл бұрын
@@zoe20176 No. It's a joke about Carcinisation
@rickwrites26122 жыл бұрын
everythung is crabs! (crabs evolved many times )
@YerMate2 жыл бұрын
I had a friend as a kid who had one sea monkey that just kept going, it was bloody huge! All the rest died after a few months to a year but that one big bastard, a bit over a cm - 1.5cms kept going for about 4 years!
@cassiemaayzombiesceks22562 жыл бұрын
I’m genuinely surprised at how many different channels I click on and then hear Hank 🤣 he’s everywhere.
@daftmi9hty3273 жыл бұрын
My sea monkeys lasted about 6 years when I threw in some plants and other small creatures (can't quite remember what ones) in an enclosed ecosystem and lightly cleaned up every so often it was mad how long they lasted I was expecting a cool little thing to have on my shelf but they just... kept going
@outistynnanyt51532 жыл бұрын
I got one of these kits as a kid. Prepped the water, waited 24 hours, did everything right. Then my 2yo brother decided he wanted to open the eggs packet and dump them all over the floor. Im still not over it, and I still don't have my sea monkeys
@uadible5902 Жыл бұрын
I just prepped the water and have to wait 19 more hours and I hope my brother doesn't do this, it's something he just does
@schizophrenic_rambler11 ай бұрын
You could've filtered them, either way some dirt won't harm them
@roku32163 жыл бұрын
I had these as a kid and then discovered they were a lot cheaper when bought as fish food eggs, so I was thrilled and so were my fish.
@southernsight29432 жыл бұрын
I grew sea monkeys - from a "toy pack" in the 70s...admittedly I swapped out the water using new pkts of water conditioner every year...and they lived/thrived for over 5 years! They grew and, I think, lived happily. No idea why they eventually died.
@riivus72912 жыл бұрын
Was not expecting that twist at 7:20 it caught me off guard.
@racookster3 жыл бұрын
The video at 8:41 made me wonder if they have three eyes, so I looked it up. Yeah, they do. The third eye (the naupliar eye) isn't functional in the adult stage, though. The "sea monkey" cartoons in the old comic book ads didn't show that, although they did show three knobbed spikes on their heads, which I suppose were intended to represent them.
@wandatidwell37923 жыл бұрын
Did the ones you bought have a Sea Monkey family and the Dad holding a triton on the package?
@jaz15513 жыл бұрын
I remember the comic book ads! Sea monkeys looked like friendly creatures from the black lagoon. I begged my mom for these, but she always said no.
@darrellcook82532 жыл бұрын
Speaking of which my mom played a dirty trick on me when I was five and I showed her the sea monkey ad. She said that these could grow up into the creature from the black lagoon and I never saw the movie until this point. Then she showed me the movie when it came on. AAAHHH! She could have just said no. Ruined my faith in sea monkeys and comic book advertising.
@FutureNow3 жыл бұрын
that sea monkeys show is nightmare fuel
@hansakkerman26113 жыл бұрын
I remember it well.
@MommaH1419 Жыл бұрын
I’m thankful for my parents and how they explained what Sea Monkeys are to me. We started our tank 2 days ago. So far so good!
@ryuzakilawlight2 жыл бұрын
Can't believe I'll say this but it's an honor to be with you since the very first episode and seeing how this has grown. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@Diarmuhnd3 жыл бұрын
That dude who sold Sea Monkeys from the backs of comic books (edit: decades ago) was one crazy s.o.b. *Thanks for the interesting science stuff, stay safe.*
@namelessnocebo3 жыл бұрын
Chaos Magick!
@HaventheDemoness-vy9lx3 жыл бұрын
At first I thought he did some unethical things to the sea monkeys or some environmental issue related thing. But then I found out "oh....the guy ,who introduced the sea monkeys to kids, is a white supremacist". Why do people who introduce wholesomeness to the world turned out to be jerks?
@mr.scottpowell3 жыл бұрын
The comic book ads, as I recall as a kid in early 70s, looked like you would get these half-human creatures that did acrobats and stuff.
@awds1213 жыл бұрын
I play with these in the lab every day. Great images as always. Although, Artemia nauplii is not a species as you mentioned in the video. Nauplii are the first life stage of brine shrimp. Same with copepods. So, what you call a species is actually a name of first of many life stages. I can help with your questions about Artemia if needed.
@Mitchdvetter2 жыл бұрын
Boys life magazine, in the back next to the the hovercraft plans and x-ray glasses was the ad for Sea Monkeys lol
@vamprealla Жыл бұрын
The last time I had Sea Monkeys, I had multiple generations going for quite a while. Even ordered a few accessories for them.❤
@plsmoviemaker3 жыл бұрын
I had these as a kid, and I think they were alive for over a year until my mom accidentally knocked the tank over while she was cleaning. She tried to save them, but unfortunately the remaining ones died not long after. Up until then though, it was still thriving.
@0810mommy2 жыл бұрын
“Accidentally” 😂
@poochiew.9302 Жыл бұрын
Same thing happened with mine except it was my sister that knocked the tank over.
@smallandstressed23643 жыл бұрын
2:25 - look at the frantic waving! It’s absolutely adorable
@rfdebeaumont3 жыл бұрын
Years from now, I can say that this is the video that started my hugely successful "Land Fish" business.
@liddz434 Жыл бұрын
As an Australian born in the desert in mid 80’s who watched plenty of American telly and movies I was always fascinated (and utterly clueless) about these things….and now I know 😊
@seatbelttruck Жыл бұрын
I wanted Sea Monkeys when I was little, but my parents wouldn't buy them. They ended up buying me a Triops kit from our local aquarium and from what I've seen, that was much better. They actually get large enough to easily observe, for one thing. The kit also came with an age-appropriate scientific explanation for what was going on instead of the smoke-and-mirrors described here. I ended up hatching them for a fifth-grade science fair. Unfortunately, the timing was a bit off, and they were already all dead by the time of the fair, but I was able to keep one of the corpses in a baby-food jar so that people could see what they looked like.
@freshboy3968 Жыл бұрын
Triops are much cooler, so I'd say you got a good deal
@TheTwick3 жыл бұрын
Where’s the King and Queen and court of my sea monkey kingdom? I was promised! Just brine shrimp…
@Nothingreallytoseehere3 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. I remember asking my mum for some sea monkeys so she allowed me to have some. I was so confused when they hatched and didn't look like " sea monkeys." But I was happy until I came back from school one day and my mum had thrown them down the toilet.
@YusufGinnah3 жыл бұрын
😆🤣 I had my Mom buy me sea monkeys from the back of a comic book, And was soo disappointed when they looked completely different to the smiling sea monkeys shown on the comic... But I loved them anyways... And they didn't last too long... 👍🏼
@ipektanrica90293 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣 rip they smell stink
@fabiana71572 жыл бұрын
I will never understand psycho parents like that. Thank goodness my mother was an animal lover, a bigger one than me actually
@catscanhavelittleasalami2 жыл бұрын
You really gotta be demented to kill living creatures that your own kid was taking care of.
@tobar1p3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic footage but you really skipped over the development of the proprietary hybrid breed that Sea-Monkeys actually are. The whole lawsuit with the widow centered around it.
@quitlife92793 жыл бұрын
pretty sure it's just a bs story that the guy made up, he's a salesman and made up a lot of lies for show, there are no difference in the animals, i'd love to see them bring up dna evidence to prove the difference.
@super_morto10 ай бұрын
One of the most amazing channels on YT. You will learn a lot about yourself watching the way the microcosmos works.
@PapaPandasHasNoDad Жыл бұрын
"You are you and that is much better to know" That's the sweetest sentiment I've ever heard and it's about brine shrimp. Hank is amazing.
@AaronShenghao3 жыл бұрын
Some species good at surviving extreme conditions: *Exists* Humans: Let’s yeet it into space!
@lisaschuster91873 жыл бұрын
Yes, we are the oddest of many odd species. I think I’ll send away for a Homo sapiens farm.
@CrimsonA13 жыл бұрын
*YEET
@AaronShenghao3 жыл бұрын
@@CrimsonA1 thanks, fixed.
@l4ndst4nder3 жыл бұрын
Sea monkeys is one of the best designed novelties for kids. It costs practically nothing to manufacture and the presentation was very carefully considered. Both the first and second packets contained brine shrimp eggs with the second packet often including a dye to make the first batch more visible. The misdirection helped to create the illusion of instant life.
@30-06Savage2 жыл бұрын
Yea that’s what he said in the video
@rzrlight Жыл бұрын
@@30-06Savage the creator was also a KKK member you know
@30-06Savage Жыл бұрын
@@rzrlight I see
@Cat-yx7xc Жыл бұрын
@@rzrlight As a Filipino i see that as a win 🥰
@American-Plague Жыл бұрын
I heard somewhere that with Sea Monkeys, both the first and second package contained eggs and the second package contained dye to make the first batch more visible, thus giving the illusion of instant life. If I can remember where I heard this I'll come back and leave a link.
@Dragrath13 жыл бұрын
Fun fact not mentioned here is that brine shrimp, aka a genus of fairy shrimp adapted to salty ephemeral waters, are actually part of the branchiopoda now recognized to be the sister group to hexapods and remipedes which makes them among the closest living relatives to springtails and insects at least along with their relatives like other fairy shrimp, water fleas, clam shrimp and shield shrimp. Their story of evolution is complicated with the branchopdia appearing back in the Cambrian m branching off from their relatives earlier on and later adapting to survive in hypersaline and or ephemeral bodies of water likely in response to the rise and radiation of the Gnathostomata or jawed fish
@joebarnes31782 жыл бұрын
As a teenager in the 70,s the ads for sea monkeys were in every comic book on the planet, lol. Seriously and I never seen any that hatched and lived when anyone bought them
@janetbyrd10652 жыл бұрын
I remember the Sea Monkeys being advertised. My brother had an aquarium, a brine shrimp hatchery to feed the baby live fish that resulted from a good environment.
@angelstparker37763 жыл бұрын
I got a pouch of sea monkeys when I was 11-12, from Hobby Lobby, there was only supposed to be about 20-30 eggs in it, turned out to be 300+ and when they hatched there was more monkey than water, needless to say they died out pretty quickly.
@giygas93052 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@Pureignition583 жыл бұрын
1:53 I watched with my kid brother-in-law, he knew if I was spending time with him, I wasn't with his sister and I respected that. You get insight were ever can get it.
@echospaw8993 жыл бұрын
Yeah, me and my little Sis bought Sea Monkeys from one of our comic books back in the '60s. We were able to keep them alive for quite a while, but I remember being bummed because they looked nothing like the pictures in the ads. I also spent allowance money on mail-order X-ray glasses. Never received them... I was really looking forward to those. LOL! 😜
@harrispinkham2 жыл бұрын
I like the pace that you read this in, Hank!
@EKA201-j7f2 жыл бұрын
I always loved the interesting ads in the back of comic books and other magazines. We never bought any of these because we lived in an area with lots of interesting creek life - crawdads and minnows, and I asked my Mom about these and she explained what they were.
@VideographerExperience3 жыл бұрын
*sending the cysts to space* this has to be the most difficult script to read in history, well done
@RainebowEvee3 жыл бұрын
Finally! I've been wanting an episode on Sea Monkeys for a long time 😊
@hellbreakfast15903 жыл бұрын
Why did that ending shot almost make me cry? These things are written so poetically and it's kinda lovely.
Virtually everyone who has ever kept tropical fish knows what brine shrimp (aka; sea monkeys) are. They sell them at pet shops in little plastic deli cups as fish food and keep longer in the fridge. My mom had no problem allowing me to keep brine “shrimp” in the refrigerator but tubifex “worms” were another story. She was especially horrified to learn these particular worms live and breed in raw sewage. lol
@saulverde3 жыл бұрын
Do one on fairy shrimp! The way bigger freshwater sea monkey. Or triops. They aren't microscopic as adults but they start out tiny. I am absolutely fascinated by diapause.
@tamara89082 жыл бұрын
I had sea monkeys as a kid. Yes unfortunately they did not last long. In the late 90's I hiked to a 10,000 mountain peak in the Tetons. There were 3 small alpine lakes up there. One was a beautiful blue color so I jumped in and found myself surrounded by what looked like sea monkeys. Could it have been them?
@RockModeNick2 жыл бұрын
They would be a similar looking freshwater species, this type need salt water to survive
@judyh3707 Жыл бұрын
I know you're implying this was a cool experience, but I had a disgust reaction at the thought of them all swimming into the body and infesting it.
@SirenaSpades Жыл бұрын
@@judyh3707 I think you need therapy
@vikrambalaji412611 ай бұрын
bro had the most beautiful experience of his life
@KY_CPA3 жыл бұрын
The most interesting video I never knew I needed! Filled with a tremendous amount of quirky tidbits. I love this channel! 😍
@falrexion77092 жыл бұрын
Having stumbled across this a year late, I am both fascinated, and disappointed I missed out on a cool tardigrade shirt
@Supersmile330 Жыл бұрын
This wasn't dark at all really, but aside the clickbait it was a really nice video, cool history, cool facts, really cool footage and nice sound and calm voice. Perfectly relaxing
@jonsey36453 жыл бұрын
I can't believe how much I missed you guys! Welcome back and much admiration all around.
@artmakersworlds3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, cool video. I worked in a pet shop back in the 70s. Actually bought sea monkeys before I got that job. Then I sold out of a large juice dispenser cooler, live brine shrimp as fish food. Figured out immediately what "sea monkeys" really were. Great marketing I must say. Oh we also sold pet rocks. Another marketing genius.
@werewolfgirl19953 жыл бұрын
I loved these things as a kid! I thought they were cute. Until my cat knocked over the tank and I remember scooping them up with my bare hands and rushing to put them in a bowl of water because I didn't want them to die
@Mooshie5003 жыл бұрын
Did they survive
@werewolfgirl19953 жыл бұрын
@@Mooshie500 I was able to save about half of them
@Mooshie5003 жыл бұрын
@@werewolfgirl1995 good enough
@ewllen8082 жыл бұрын
i also had sea monkeys as a kid. one of my relatives was visiting and thought it was an old glass of water and tipped them down the damn drain. its been over 15 years and im honestly still a little mad about it. it was very distressing at the time. i still think about buying more every now and then but knowing what i now know... maybe not. well. not sea monkeys, anyway. but my own little brine shrimp? sure 😊
@fullbatteries13352 жыл бұрын
Didn't expect it to get that deep at the end. Be you Sea Monkies be you.
@lexibyday95043 жыл бұрын
by the time I discovered sea monkeys it was already well known that they're impossible to actually keep alive. This put me in the direction of craving arteficial tiny pets, just complex enough to apear alive as they wiggle around their plastic terarium between "food" sources and the nest. Someone will make them one day and then all the sea monkeys will be free.
@julianaquascaped3 жыл бұрын
I'm actually going to order some brine shrimp soon to feed the fish i'm breeding. i hear about them a ton in the aquarium hobby, but didn't know this darker history. I actually just listened to a podcast with the man behind Instant Fish (or at least the fish breeder the company hired to make it happen). He's led a fascinating life and has stories about what it was like to be in the aquarium hobby back in the 1950s!
@shaddonon3 жыл бұрын
Which podcast? You’ve intrigued me!
@julianaquascaped3 жыл бұрын
@@shaddonon oh right that would have been helpful info to provide! It’s the Aquarist Podcast and the episode I’m referring to is 102/103 with Rosario LaCorte.
@GuppyCzar3 жыл бұрын
@@julianaquascaped The Aquarist podcast is great! AND unlike this video you could learn something about the actual species.
@TaBunnie3 жыл бұрын
Harold: "Today im going to sell pets to kids!" *buys firearms for the KKK*
@HenriFaust3 жыл бұрын
I don't see the disconnect.
@CigarMick Жыл бұрын
Brine shrimp are an excellent food source for aquarium fish. I used to feed brine shrimp to my angels and the hatchling shrimp to my angel fish fry. They are good for most fish species and are relatively easy to grow so you have a readily available live food for your fish.