ImaginaryEngr76
Shared on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 09:34My four year old daughter really, really, REALLY wants an aquarium full of beautiful colorful fish that she "can love and care for". Having an aquarium when I was I kid, I know pretty well all the upkeep and filthy water changes involved that I'll ultimately have to do myself, because hey, my kid is four years old. But I thought maybe I can see how she does with the aquarium gateway drug - Sea Monkeys. For those not in the know, Sea Monkeys are basically a kind of brine shrimp, and you can buy a kit containing food and freeze dried eggs that hatch upon placing them in water and adding some sort of "Instant Life" enzyme. You may remember seeing ads for these things in comic books back in the day:
Needless to say, these little buggers are tiny when they do hatch, as they're only the size of the head of a pin. My daughter couldn't see them for about a week (and thought that I was imagining them), but once they started growing, her first question was,"Why don't they look like the sea monkeys on the box, daddy?". See, I'll let you in on a little known fact. Contrary to popular belief Sea Monkeys don't actually look like something Dr. Seuss scribbled on the back of a napkin - they actually look more like this:
Stumped for an answer to offer her (other than "retail packaging often lies, dear"), I went to the official Sea-Monkeys.com FAQ to see if they had anything to say. Luckily they had a satisfactory answer to my daughter's question, probably because it gets asked all of the time.
"Why don't my Sea-Monkeys look like the ones depicted on the packaging?"
"The illustrations are meant to communicate the fun of the Sea-Monkey environment and are not the actual size or shape found in nature."
Well, no shit... Which of two pictures above look more "fun" to you? Now, I've just got to figure out how to "train" them, just like the ad suggests.
Stumped for an answer to offer her (other than "retail packaging often lies, dear"), I went to the official Sea-Monkeys.com FAQ to see if they had anything to say. Luckily they had a satisfactory answer to my daughter's question, probably because it gets asked all of the time.
"Why don't my Sea-Monkeys look like the ones depicted on the packaging?"
"The illustrations are meant to communicate the fun of the Sea-Monkey environment and are not the actual size or shape found in nature."
Well, no shit... Which of two pictures above look more "fun" to you? Now, I've just got to figure out how to "train" them, just like the ad suggests.
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