Sea-Monkey Packet Experiments!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Testing out every single novelty Sea-Monkey pouch on real Sea-Monkeys!
(water purifier, instant live eggs, growth food, plasma 3, banana treat, grow-kwikly, cupid's arrow, red magic, super food, sea medic, sea diamonds, racing fuel)
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Truly ambitious and well done, John. All of my packets remain unused and sealed in plastic as part of the collection … so it’s great to FINALLY see these “IN ACTION.” (Or NOT in action as the case may be.)
I love how you handled the “Living Plasma” / “Plasma II” / “Plasma III” / “Packet 3” / Packet 4” - and “Jumbo Living Plasma” confusion. That was about as clear and concise as that confusing mess could have been explained.
I agree with your overall assessment of these supplemental ingredient packets - they basically sneak duplicate ingredients into your tank to keep your colony growing and keep children engaged in their minuscule pets. “Even the crappy Sea-Diamonds.” HA! The real value for me is in the hyperbole and humor. That seems to be the baseline for all things Sea-Monkeys - and Harold was most certainly the master at that.
This was a huge undertaking. Congrats on getting this one behind you. - Tod
Hey Tod! It’s Carter I got your Email yesterday I just wanted to let you know you’re an inspiration and I will be responding properly very soon. Keep up the great work you genuinely do give me hope for products in the future to gain a quality and creativity that has been lost for too long! ❤❤
Thanks again for all your help with this one, Tod! Even though it took a lot of work, putting this video together was a lot of fun. I'm glad you approve of my attempt at explaining the messy Plasma history too 😆
On to my Ocean Zoo review video next! But first time to catch up on some sleep 😴
@@Analog_Momo: Hello, Carter. Glad to find you over here on TH-cam. You’ll learn a ton about Sea-Monkeys from John’s videos. - Tod
@@pico-cosmos: An Ocean-Zoo video will be another fun one for YOU to make and ME to watch. Ha! 😅😅😅
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As a kid in the 70's my mother told me they were a scam, and not living things, and not to waste the money on them. I figured they just moved around due to some chemical reaction for a while. Like those baking soda-powered plastic toys, you would get in cereal boxes. All these years later they were Brine Shrimp. I can't believe I was so misled as a child. I feel cheated now.
Mom got some explaining to do😂
It's a hard but necessary lesson - when you get to the age that your parents were when you were young, you realize how often people your age, _including you_ (i.e. the new "grown-ups") are _wrong_ about things. Easily, often, and sometimes stubbornly.
...and yet, if/when you're a "grown-up" with children of your own, you need them to trust you enough to listen to you - so you have to _seem_ knowledgeable and correct, even if you might be wrong.
There's still time to enjoy them! ❤
I found mine in a toy store.😂😂😂
@@HaloInverseI make it a point to look things up with my kid if I'm not sure of the answer, teaching at the same time how to look things up and vet sources. My authority remains undiminished.
In 5th grade we has sea monkeys as a class pet, but they all ate each other until there was one left and it was GIGANTIC
The mega monki >:D
The circle…the circle of life
Ha ha ha ha hs ha😅😅😅😅😅😅😮😢😅😅😅😅
This is what happened to my sister’s sea monkeys
@@CharlieParadigmIs that what you told her 😈
i never knew i'd be so enthralled by a 46 minute video about sea monkeys of all things
Amen! It seems so unlikely but they are surprisingly fun to watch.
Specifically on a TH-cam channel I've never seen before 🤣
I also didn't even really like sea monkeys as a kid haha
Same. Now I worry that TH-cam will want to show me more..
@@Lyysabeth I feel this, I had some in middle or high school and I accidentally killed them...I felt so bad I hid them in the back of my closet because I couldn't bear to look at the poor creatures...
same, but they are quite interesting!
I do not think the importance of the artwork used in the Sea-Monkey business can ever be OVER-Stated! The Artwork MADE the entire phenomenon thread and cloth!
The Artist can Never Be given Enough Credit!
100%! I really think Orlando’s illustrations are a big reason for the brand’s success
@@pico-cosmos agreed! I remember getting a Sea-Monkey kit as a little kid, and being disappointed when they hatched and didn't actually look like the packaging! 😂😂
@@mariebelladonna437if I remember correctly, there was a lawsuit over that
@@HeatherWho11.10 oh ffs. I was a little kid. But adults should know better. Then again, common sense is NOT common at all. And people will sue over anything. Wonder if that's why the packets were changed to just the big numbers, lol.
Right?! Seeing them at the back of the TV Guide was what made me want them! Sitting on tiny Sea Monkey furniture. Lol
I like to think the extra eggs in the packets aren't on purpose - and that their factory is just overflowing with SeaMonkey cysts and those things get EVERYWHERE
🤣
I got Sea Monkeys growing in my nasal cavity again.... 😮💨
SeaMonkey version of glitter lol
TBH, there's probably a tiny grain of truth to that.
My friend kicked my sea monkeys over onto the floor. It was carpet so there wasn't really anything I could do for them.
I put the tank back on the table with just the residue of the water remaining in it, and when I decided to wash it out months later, much to my surprise, after having added water, there were sea monkeys in the tank, from nothing.
So, considering the truly industrial scale they must be farming them on I imagine their eggs DO go a lot of places by accident. LOL
@@Nevir202 are you still friends with that meanie?
So the creator of Sea Monkeys is a genius who resold brine shrimp eggs in 12 packets with different artwork. Dude really had a grand idea.
I'd recommend doing more research on Harold Von Braunhut before calling him a genius.
Great marketer, but hoo boy...
@bareakon No I intend the fact that he managed to sell some bs over and over again. It is amazing marketing. I don't mean he has insane brains gains.
@@XXavierSin-XXs Boreskon was alluding to the fact that Harold was a big time knotsy.
i am delighted to be informed that sea monkey autism exists. i'll be watching more in the future
🤣 this is definitely the most autistic video I’ve ever made
@@pico-cosmos as an autistic special-interest-collector myself, you def had my full hyper-focus for the entirety of this video.
Our superpower 💪
Nah I read "sea monkey autism" and I thought the sea monkeys were autistic 😭
The finding of this video has created a new hyperfixation for me and I'm so incredibly excited to start my own colony!
I’m admittedly rather confused where the TH-cam algo decided I should watch a 46 minute video on brine shrimp (maybe pulling from my binge of the Leon the Lobster videos six months ago) but I will say this was surprisingly interesting and informative! I didn’t know brine shrimp, or the community surrounding them, could grow and thrive as well as it clearly has. Thanks for the video!
In hospital we give certain patients "banana bags", which a bags of IV solution with additional b vitamins (including thiamine) and electrolytes. The vitamins turn the solution yellow, thus the name.
Ah that’s super interesting! Maybe that’s how they got the name for this stuff too
@@pico-cosmos that's what I'm wondering, too.
With sea monkeys!!!!!!
I thought it was because of the potassium
Ringer's on steroids.
I have no intention of getting a weird shrimp aquarium.
Why am I watching this?
Idk, but I definitely will keep watching this xP
Lol you should totally get a weird shrimp aquarium
@@pico-cosmosgood idea
Watching this video satisfies any curiosity I ever had concerning sea monkey kits. Never got one when I was a kid because I had real fish. Used to feed 'em to cichlids but just bought them freeze dried from the store.
@@Lurch-Bot I was confused by these as a child, because the only place I ever saw them (or advertisements for them, I should clarify) was in comic books/children’s periodicals from when my mom was a kid. She kept a lot of the various toys and media she loved as a child, and then handed them down to my siblings and me. I can’t remember if the ads I saw were in the Scrooge mcduck comics or a different one, but it definitely was a strange situation for me as a small child to stumble across those illustrations of “sea monkeys”, when I was just trying to read about ducks getting up to hijinks in peace. The fact that they were just barely humanoid and flesh colored was very uncomfortable lol
It’s cool to finally get a lot of my questions about these little guys cleared up, though I’ll never understand how someone looked at a brine shrimp and thought “yup, that looks like a monkey”.
As a Utah Native, I've long known about the Brine Shrimp growing in The Great Salt Lake. The Union Pacific Railroad Causeway that divided the Lake in half has changed the salinity and, hence, the biome and associated color of the water. This can easily be seen on satellite imagery. Fun fact: We used to have a Flamingo, affectionately known as "Pink Floyd" who escaped the Tracy Aviary in 1988 and took up residence on and around Antelope Island. His pink color was maintained through the carotenoid nutrients in the Brine Shrimp he was consuming. As a Chilean Flamingo, the high-altitude terminal lake environment worked for him. He'd leave when the weather turned too cold and come back every year. 2005 was his last visit. I never saw him, but I saw his fellow Flamingos during a school field trip to the Tracy Aviary back in 1989. Excellent video.
That’s so interesting! You’re so lucky to have such interesting wildlife in North America. Yeah I’ve heard Flamingos get their colour from the brine shrimp they eat. Apparently the brine shrimp turn red from the astaxanthin in the phytoplankton they consume 🦐
Didn't knew they were known as chilean flamingos. Greetings from Chile!
I have only seen wild flamingos in one place, Bonaire. The island is also the only place in the world that has wild donkeys.
Actually, Southwestern Colorado has wild burros, AND Mustangs (wild horses & donkeys).
I live in Arizona and there are wild burros that are descendants of the old mining mules during the gold rush
In 1973, I was 10 years old. I ordered a Sea Monkey Kit from the back of a Comic Book. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a very fun kit. It taught me patience for sure. I got them to live for a few months, carefully not to over feed them. Ah, the memories.
I thought those ads in comic books were so magical. I always wanted to get them. Glad you did and worked out well 😀
Lol I got the books with all the random fidgets and stuff when I was like 5-7 still do sometimes (I’m much younger then you lol)
So 61 now, have your own family?
Same, except a teen magazine for me.
Tried it a few times in the early 80s, it never worked. Now I'm convinced my mom used to clean up or messed with it in other ways 💀
Its so nice to see a breakdown of the packets, some of them are so lost to time
Videos like this are part of the reason I started this channel - I always wanted to watch content about this stuff but it never existed. I’m glad I can finally shed some light on these mysterious powdered oddities :)
@@pico-cosmos Yes, but I was screaming "Noooo!" as you opened the antique and "rare" Racing Fuel. :p
The fact they put eggs in all the packets was an unsurprising revelation.
This video is so random, but interestingly i remembered that in my old bedroom closet at my mother's house, there's boxes of stuff from my late 60s early 70s childhood and there are a bunch of these packets floating around loose in them as well as an aquarium although i cant recall which one. I will definitely be digging them out on my next trip up there to see which of these i have. Thanks for the memory!
That old tank might be worth a fair bit!
Sea-monkeys started my aquatic life hobby in my childhood. From cheap sea-monkey plastic tank kit bought from one of those poorly printed ads in a kids magazine, to seahorses and a real tank... to doing a 55 gallon sea salt aquarium with clownfish, sea anemones, hermit crabs and snails. All starting with sea-monkeys.
Little you would be so happy to see you and all of that work now.
i guess everything starts little
Impressive, not a lot of people continue on with their childhood passion, so congrats to you! Hope you keep your passion burning hot 🔥
I was really not expecting this to be a full investigative deep dive into sea monkies/brine shrimp, but I loved the detail and the history behind the pop culture phenomenon!
Seeing those old manuals really made me wish we had some sort of internet archive of everything from the 1900. So many published manuals are gone, but had such classic charm and marketing over the years. It would be so nice to browse through history in marketing and manuals from 1920s, 50s, etc. So many fun pictures, gimmics and marketing scams. You made an awesome video, i had to watch the whole thing. I have had sea monkeys on more than one occasion growing up. It was an awesome history review.
Me when ohio women coms to school: 21:10
That would be so cool for art, especially collages
@@Joeh_ yoo yess
Earlier last year I tried raising Sea Monkeys again with the hope of them breeding and making multiple generations. While I was initially happy to see many mating seamonkeys I couldn't get algae to grow at all. I had an adjustable heater and light aeration (took time to get the airflow to make not be overwhelming).
I initially thought they were making natural babies when I saw new tiny sea monkeys but became suspicious after new babies appeared after most of the original ones died and they hadn't mated in weeks. When only one adult was alive I added #3 food packet and saw a few new baby seamonkeys the next day.
Immaculate conception!! 😱
@@Strawberry-Guy or parthogenesis
In Germany they called saline crabs (we Germans love our precious language). And in my childhood there were a package of saline crab eggs and algae food. You take just tap water in a glass, the right amount of salt and algae. That's all and works
Urzeitkrebse! 😊
An alternative name is fairy crabs! This makes me love our precious language even more
Hah, I'm a bit disappointed that the packets are generally just eggs (especially Cupid's arrow! Would have enjoyed seeing sea monkey orgies!) but I can't say I'm particularly surprised. Regardless, as a kid I remember being enthralled by these silly little packets and I appreciate that you did such a deep dive and uploaded so much material to the Internet archive!
Lol same tho
I hung out for a few weeks with a guy who collected band flyers and poster memorabilia. Helped him curate his collection after he got a fresh influx of material from a guy liquidating. It was the 90s, and a lot of those flyers dated to the 50s and 60s to a few months previous. He did eventually turn it into an official museum.
A lot of the color choices in the printing runs of the containers of food, etc. are due it being the cheapest colors available.
You worked gonzo art within an affordable color pallette if you used color at all. The different color choices over the years track with the colors on some of those flyers and posters. You see similar things in underground comic books/graphic novels.
The silver packet was made with a discontinued military machine designed for MREs to keep table salt from getting wet. I /think/ it was a Korean War addition to MREs, due to the humidity but it's been a while since that convo with the expert.
'That green bio material' is almost certainly dried pureed kelp, btw. A lot of dried green teas use dried kelp as a filler, which is why I think you're comparing the flavor.
Thanks for the insight! That was really helpful. I definitely think you’re right about the kelp powder too - a few people have mentioned it and it looks like a perfect visual match
Mre first came out in 1981 perhaps the salt was packaged for the older c rations which were canned food
@@sandie9382 I was using the more modern "MRE" for the younger set that get it. I'm 51. In my early childhood they were still 'military rations'. The Apollo program did a lot for promoting ground level food preservation that was too expensive at the time for casual use. Same foundational tech is used in every packaged food product you buy in a grocery store. Find some 'TANG'. grab something flavorless and about 40% ABV, put them together and recognize you can get drunk in microgravity, but the journey to getting there is barely worth it.
The sea medic is probably tetracyclin, zinc oxide or thiosulfates they are mentioned in the original mix for water purifier, so probably just a mix of what they already had at hand
As a non-American, I didn’t know sea-monkeys existed before now. So this was a cool video to stumble upon.
Ye we have a weird fascination with selling animals a toys for children. Same thing happens with beta fish, hamsters, frogs, triops, and hermit crabs.
@@suruxstrawde8322I grew up with ants :)
@@pappi8338 same, but mine weren't in a farm, they just lived in the house with us, same as the spiders.
@@suruxstrawde8322same here
OP sounds like a Kiwi to me. Maybe an Aussie but pretty sure they're from New Zealand. There were plenty of both at the boarding school I attended in the UK. The difference in accent is subtle. The best way I could describe it is that there is more of a hint of RP English in a Kiwi accent and they don't pronounce exaggerated u sounds like an Aussie.
I laughed when you said “I’ve been giving them my banana treat. After watching this I have to get a sea monkey kit.
I have plans to hand carve some lithographs with the packet graphics and print those on shirts so, I would be interested in tee-shirts. Sea monkeys are a hyperfixation of mine. I currently have a thriving colony in the blue, glow-in-the-dark volcano tank
Oh nice! Definitely keen to see your shirt designs when they’re done :D
Oooh neat! What did you think of the show from the 90s?
@truckerdave8465 Gasp! I wasn't aware of it until now. TBH, it looks insane...Howie Mandel?!?!
@@Quimquat Lol oh it was SUPER insane. Like no one expects a live action sea monkey show.
The classic artwork is so cute, really gives personality to the sea monkey mascots. :3
I really wish they'd return to using the anthropormorphized sea monkey art on the packets. Maybe it just speaks nostalgia in me, but it's clearly more fun.
Yeah I’ve thought this for ages too! The illustrated packet designs are so much nicer. From what I’ve heard there’s no plan to go back to them though :/
They would be great on tshirts, like you suggested
I feel like this is the most important video on youtube. I had lived my entire life not realizing they had a whole product ecosystem beyond just the first 3. This explains so much about the 90s and the rest of the franchises we were sold as kids. Like going back and watching TV from the 1940s.
I'm impressed. Those packets were more useful than I had expected, and not just relabeled "replacement monkeys". I do wonder whether over-salination is a problem, for example, with using the medic pouch. I've never had sea monkeys myself, but I have to admit they do look fun!
Brine shrimp are tolerant to an insanely wide salinity range, so you could probably use a few of the sea-medic pouches before it became an issue 😆
🤯 I don't think even the creators themselves have immersed in the products as much as you did. It must have been a challenge to collect them all in the first place. It was all very fascinating. Thank you! 😊 - Ramón 🇲🇽
You’re probably right about that 😆 I was fortunate that Tod basically gave me all of the packets for this video - otherwise obtaining them would’ve been pretty much impossible
I have seen videos of ppl hatching sea monkeys in aquariums and raising them in there. I wish the sea monkey company would sell macro algae for those of us who want to decorate the tank with live things.
Algae is also really good for sea monkeys
Sometimes the TH-cam algorithm works. I didnt know I wanted to learn so much about Sea Monkeys.
Fantastic long form video, from start to finish! As a grade schooler in 1971, I was instantly captured by Joe Orlando's classic art, which I first saw in a comic book ad. I had no idea he didn't also draw that original "Hatchy" baby character in the broken eggshell until just now. It's nice that you credit all the creative hands in the ongoing popularity of this brand. After I was officially hooked in 1974, I bought most of these specialty packets through the mail, always anxious to see how the Sea-Monkeys would be depicted next. I'm embarrassed to say that, although I fanatically memorized the handbook, I mis-read GRO-KWIKLY as GRO-KWILLY, & never realized I was wrong until I was in my thirties! "Kwilly" just seemed like a good aquatic word, & that's what my brain filled in. Also, I seem to be having false memories of another piece of art for that packet, showing young Sea-Monkeys having their height measured by a parent with a ruler. Generally speaking, I have crystal clear memories (at least of the stuff I obsess over), but I guess this non-existent illustration is just something I dreamed up, due to constantly poring over the product descriptions at the back of the handbook. Anyway, thanks for yet another informative, highly entertaining review. Sea-Monkey Fan for Life!
John's got the most interesting and well produced content on Sea-Monkeys out there. The lengths he goes too is truly admirable.
@@TodMachin I agree! John's unabashed passion for the subject instantly lends credibility to the hobby, which is not something I'd experienced before. (I can't count the looks of incredulity I often get from adult friends who cannot relate to my obsession, ha ha!). Beyond being informative, his editing skills are incredible. I'm always impressed by his seamless transitions showing an empty tank suddenly full of Sea-Monkeys. And the super magnified examination of brine shrimp, food, & other stuff (deceased Sea-Monkeys, for example) is genuinely fascinating, not to mention very professional looking. It's nice that he gets assistance from you, of course, one of the "creative hands" I mentioned above! Sea-Monkeys are a true phenomenon. Long after kids (& grown-ups) first discover that artemia salina look NOTHING like the fanciful promotional art, we still remain devoted to raising them. That speaks volumes to the power of advertising AND these tiny aquatic creatures, which always appear so peaceful, gliding through the water. I always look forward to John's next review, & I'm just as excited to see that you're working on new projects to this day!
100% there needs to be shirts, the artwork is so good and i think tons of science fans and marine biology fans would adore it
I love that you just got a tardigrade right behind you
Good eye!
46 minutes of great content AND archiving handbooks? Amazing! I just love seeing the channel grow and all I can say is that it's completely deserved!
Thank you so much for archiving the handbooks, stuff like this gets overlooked when talking about archiving media!
Thanks :) I really appreciate the kind words. There’s one more Sea-Monkey handbook I don’t have yet, so I’ll definitely make a PDF of that one too if I ever get my hands on it :)
29:20 the rare lesbian edition of Sea-Medic
🤣 I had to google the lesbian flag to understand what you were on about. I might start a petition to bring back lesbian Sea-Medic 👩⚕️
I have never heard of a lesbian flag either.
is the image at 4m47s something you did from an artistic standpoint or are a ninja troll?
this is my first time watching your content so i don't know if i am naive for pointing it out or not.
these chemicals in the water are turning my sea-monkeys GAY!
I'm 63 and have loved Sea Monkeys since I was 8 years old when I first ordered them from the back of a comic book. I love how they are humanized in the illustrations and the descriptions on the packets and in the handbook solidify their "humanity". They act and feel just like us! I think I'm going to have to get some more soon! Thanks for this "deep dive" and bringing back the special memories of my childhood.
46 minutes from Picocosmos??? Am I dreaming?
😂 never again! This thing took me soooo long to make. I’m glad it’s finally done though, been wanting to make this video for years
Yes, Ram, You are.
And 4 seconds
@@pico-cosmos Oh, I love the long videos! And thank you for providing the patent link; I am indeed the kind of person who will nerd out and read patents for fun!
🤓 erm actually it’s 46 minutes AND 4 seconds 🤓
I came to this channel because of my passion for animals but have stayed because of your obvious passion! The way that you clearly love not only these cool animals and ones like them, and learning about the ways to keep them healthy as you observe their tiny ecosystem; the love you have for the nostalgia and levity of the sea monkey branding; the thoroughness of your investigation into the history and viability of the various "hatchable aquatic pet" products... it all comes together to make something truly unique that is really enjoyable. The icing on the cake is your sense of humor and deadpan delivery, exactly up my alley and cracks me up every time (I like to rewatch the racing track video when I need a chuckle). You have also created a monster because I have now purchased an "Aqua Dragons" kit and plan to get the "Sea Monkeys on Mars" (from your site of course) as well.... my room is already full of my isopods, freshwater shrimp, spiders, feeder bugs, geckos, micro squirrels, and plants, so on the one hand what's one more but on the other, SALTWATER?! What am I getting myself into....
Update: The Sea Monkeys on Mars kit (purchased via your affiliate link) arrived today! I was very excited to fill it with water and packets 1 and 2! The videos don't do justice to the nice details but moreso, how absolutely tiny it is! It's the cutest thing! I'm so enamored, I really hope the babies hatch and thrive!
Update 2: So far I see only one baby for sure, but I'm hoping more hatch as time goes on, we're only on day 3. I have them in a windowsill that only really gets indirect light, and on a heating pad because our house is well air conditioned. I use the aqua leash to aerate a few times a day. The baby is very very tiny and really fast! The videos make it look like they kind of bumble lazily in the water but they're BOOKIN' IT in there. XD
@@LadyTroubadour How are they now?
@@Nova-bv5qb Aw thanks for checking on them! I have 2 adult females now. Not sure why numbers ended up so low but am delighted with watching them swim through the little Mars arches and get very excited for their tiny partial scoops of powder. Just like previous videos on the channel have observed before, the Aqua Dragons had a big hatchout at first but then there was a die-off, and the water quality crashed and I lost them all.
bro the jokes for the cupids bow killed me XD "maybe itll work on me"
Never thought id find a sea monkey related youtuber. Nor did I expect to learn that most of the packets were a lie, though in good faith at least since they all still did relatively what they said they would.
You've answered decades old questions, thank you.
Honestly it feels so good to finally put this curiosity to rest 😆 I’ve been wondering about them for years too
my sea monkeys are still thriving after 2 yrs. at one point i thought my sea monkeys were dead and i was going to clean the tank and start over. but guess what they came back to life idk how but that’s very cool. i love these vids! thanks for informing me on sea monkeys !
:O 2 years is damn impressive! You must be doing something right :)
Finally someone covers the extra packets! You can see some of the packets such as the banana tree still you could mail an order open till 2022 but no one has covered them or really put a history out for them my first video on here was actually going to cover those packets and I was going to unboxed one of the vintage ocean zoo tanks, but I’ve been having a hard time finding the packets like you see photos of them but that’s about it. I’m glad you made a video on these finally! It’s a mysterious and really interesting part of Seamonkey history that isn’t really well covered anywhere online that seems to have existed even up until a few years ago just no one thought of archiving it properly. Another great video as always!
I’d love to see you make some videos about them some time too :) hopefully they start selling them again soon so you can get some 🤞
I honestly didn't even know sea monkies were still a thing. This was absolutely fascinating. Thank you!
South Park had an episode about sea monkeys. They made them look like the ones on the packs.
at 4:48 there's a (rather raunchy) depiction of a south park set. blink and you'll miss it lol
@@midimidori4699 Haha, didnt notice that. funny.
@@midimidori4699can’t forget the seaman in the background. Seaman + sea people = seaciety
I got things to do and I somehow got stuck watching 46 minutes of sea monkies
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, and you've got yourself a new subscriber. I love your innocence, that you didn't notice the innuendo between the banana treat, and it's stock number.
Omg I spent a week editing this video and somehow never noticed that it’s product #69 🤣 good spot 🍌
@@pico-cosmos it was worth every painstaking minute. A thoroughly informative and entertaining watch, with just enough self deprecating humour to relate.
Your most ambitious video yet! So many different packets and the history behind them, there was so much I didn't know before! It's nice to have a bit of confirmation that some of them do work as intended (I'm looking at you Sea Diamonds) while others were more of just a gimmick (still looking!). I do wish the Sea-Medic was more easily available because bacteria bloom is something I do struggle with in my tanks. Must be their environment since I live in a hot and semi-humid area. It would certainly help me from my colonies crashing. This was an awesome video, so much time and research and it was so informative! Thank you so much for making it and sharing it with us all, I hope you have a great day!
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for supporting the channel :)
Great video (so far! I had to pause and comment that YES, I think they should sell those vintage package graphics on shirts!)
I remember playing in the Great Salt Lake as a kid trying to catch all the different coloured brine shrimp!
We also raised Sea Monkeys as kids. I'd buy one of those shirts!
Thanks for the vid! :D
I have a massive appreciation for everyone involved with the creation of sea monkeys, and you too for making this video. You sparked an interest in me that I haven't had since I was a child
Noooo not the "banana treat"💀😭 loved this video! It was really cool and neat to learn all of this!!❤ i really loved all the tanks too!! Super cool!
Yeah I’m glad I got to show a bunch of the tanks in this one! I’m thinking about starting a series where I set up every tank at the same time and periodically check in on their progress
@@pico-cosmos that is a great idea, I would absolutely love that!
4:47 seamen + sea people = seaciety
I'm so glad I randomly found this channel. You make incredibly entertaining videos and your sense of humor is fantastic.
:D thanks for supporting the channel!
@pico-cosmos No need to thank me. Thank you for making such great videos!
You definitely need to collab with the sea monkey company ❤
Getting Tod’s help on these videos is probably the closest I’ll get to collaborating with them. He honestly knows more about the brand than anybody else
You say that now see how, instantly, he bretrays us all and decides to become a fan of Aqua Dragons.
...probably thinks those are "cooler".
John’s great to collaborate with. I answer questions and fill in any information and images he needs, then lay on the couch while he does all the work. The hardest thing for me is waiting for the movie to premiere on my iPhone.
This video was long enough that it required an intermission for a bathroom break and a stop at the concession stand - my fridge. It was also long enough that it could have included coming attraction trailers at the beginning.
Supporting your theory about the sea monkey dessert being some sort of innuendo... check out it's item mumber 😂
TH-cam recommended this to me today and I love it. I had totally forgotten about sea monkeys. I might order a kit for my preschool classroom.
They’re definitely a great learning tool 🦐
These "sea-monkeys" seem to be a great way of playing god. I'm in!
I spilled jam on my phone and accidentally bought super thanks, but oh well at least its the best sea monkey youtuber on TH-cam
Haha thanks! I haven’t received one of these in like a year so I really appreciate it, even if it was an accident 😅
I grew up in the 70's and had many variations of these tanks. I also remember using what were called 'Magic Rocks' to grow stalagmite like crystals that towered from the bottom of the tank. I'm not sure if they were an official item for 'Sea Monkey's' or not. I'm also not sure if they were harmful to the brine shrimp or not. I just remember it looking really cool with the brine shrimp swimming around the crystal stalagmites.
I haven't so much as thought of sea monkeys since I was a kid, and yet this was riveting.
I previously had absolutely zero knowledge on or even interest in sea monkeys. Why I clicked on this video I don’t know. But I watched and enjoyed it all?
I have been curious about, and searched for information on, a lot of these packets over the years. I was so happy to run into your video! I was specially curious about the Diamonds - that was a bit disappointing. Seeing some of you novelty tanks was a treat, I had no idea there were so many designs! Thank you to the packet donor and thank you for making this video!
" I guess the next step would be to try it on myself to see if it can cure my chronic impotence" Lord have mercy! I was not prepared for that side note 😅😆
For ghe life of me, i havent been able to order any of these packets into NZ. So cool to see them all together in detail ❤️
It seems that none of them are currently available which is a real shame. I really hope those reformulations pull through so we can order them again soon
I am 62 and hadn't one single clue! I am so pleasantly surprised! Thank you 😊
Sea Monkies = whale food 🐳
was a little intimidated by the video length but absolutely loved it. it really found a sweet spot between talking about the history and showing the critters.
have you ever tried hatching triops? ive seen some kits around online and am absolutely charmed by the little dudes.
Thanks :) I haven’t tried Triops yet but will definitely give them a go at some point
This video will be saved and stored onto future Star Trek memory files of humans doing stuff. Thank you for your service.
Yes the packages as tshirts! I have always thought they would be so cool as tshirts.
Cant get over "if you see a sea monkey boy hug hus girlfriends & hang on tight you know its working, if several are hanging on to her- youve yoused too much & your sea monkeys have lost their minds." 😂😂
This production quality and your presentation aura are both absolutely phenomenal my bro. I was hooked within the first 10 seconds. Chur !
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OMG, brine shrimp not monkey's.....................this toy is right up there with "The Pet Rock" lol
“Brine Shrimp” and “Sea-Monkeys” are both common names for the species Artemia Salina. Really when it comes to animals, if you’re not using their binomial name, you can call them whatever you want 😆
Honey wake up! Picocosmos uploaded!
😆 I hope you have the popcorn ready, this one’s a long watch
The fact the sea diamonds are just plastic is so funny to me. Like i was expecting some sort of crystal growth but straight up plastic was not what i expected
I just want to say that finding this video has created an all-out obsession in me. I'm starting a 3L tank and got all the necessary supplies, even a nursery tank, so I can keep the colony going. I'm confident I can do a much better job than I did when I was a little kid after all the research I've done through watching all the tank setup and tips videos this channel has to offer. I am so excited to cultivate my own microalgae and watch my colony thrive! Thank you for inspiring me to keep sea monkeys as pets!
I’d recommend just starting out with a Sea-Monkey or Aqua Dragon kit first, just until you get the hang of things. Even with all the info I provide it can still take practice/experience to get a ‘feel’ for the process. Brine Shrimp are notoriously tricky to raise 😅 good luck on your journey! ✨
@@pico-cosmos I was planning to start off in the smaller nursery tank I got. I'm not personally a fan of the tanks that come with kits, but I do find all the different designs interesting. I got a mini heater for my algae culture and one for the shrimp, as well as air lines and grow lights. I am hoping that I fare well on my journey. Thank you for the wishes!
Man's delivery of "my chronic impidence" caught me so off guard. That was very good
TH-cam suggested your video to me today. So glad they did. Loved the video and subscribed! Can't wait to watch your other content ❤
Such a great video, so educational and super glad Todd was so helpful to helping this video happen! Shout out to Todd for his generosity!🎉
THE SEAMONKEY KING HAS RETURNED
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This video is actually so good! As somebody who was always intrigued by these extra packets with little info online, thank you so much for making this video!
I hope it helped to answer some of your childhood curiosity :) I’ve been wondering about these packets for yeeeears
You have very kind eyes and voice.
I have anxiety and listening to you calmed my anxiey spike, thank you. Also the brine shimp are so adorable! The lil leggies 😊
I was always interested in having sea monkeys. I am cured of that now. You showed enough that I know I would not be a good owner. It's not rocket science, but it is more complicated than comics lead kids to believe in the 70's, 80's, and even after I became an adult in the 90's.
The algorithm decided I needed to see this yesterday... I now own a sea monkey kit, just need to find a good vase for them (they were sold out of aquariums so I just got some refill kits with packets 1, 2 and 3)
Make sure to only use 12oz (330ml) water 👌
@@pico-cosmos Thank you, yea I saw that on the back of the packet I should have something small the right size since I collected small glass bottles and vases for a while.
i was never able to get my sea monkeys to live for more than a day or two. im astonished at how many stories people have of them getting big bc this whole time i thought it was a novelty scam. maybe ill try again
SeaMonkey dlc was wild
Not sure what the inflation calculation is, but, selling salt packets for $20 is genius!
Thanks for putting all this information together.. I have one of those old Red packets of the Super Food! It is cool to see what is in all those. It was such a fun time being a kid and getting all those in the mail. Like you mentioned even if it was just to encourage imagination and wonder.. it is fun. Thanks again for taking the time to do a deep dive on this, really enjoyed it! :)
Ooo nice 🤩 I really like that variant! Hope you’re keeping it in good condition 😁
Sea Diamonds give your pets the authentic ocean experience… micro plastics
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WOW we got a long form video from picocosmos AND a ton of fun info on the retro sea monkey merch?!? What a treat!! ❤
I bought 5 lbs of these cysts from Amazon a decade ago for like $18. Used to feed these to my smaller fish.
I wonder what the purifier is.
I had hundreds of these things on the counter at any given time. 2-3 drops of purifier in the water and it's instantly purified. Then add 3% sea salt by volume. Then the eggs.
Setup only takes 2 minutes
Might just be me, but I find it far more fascinating that people care this much about what started as a con than the actual product being discussed...
EDIT: His entire channel is DEDICATED to the topic. I was amazed that you could even squeeze 40 minutes out of the topic, but 2 years of content? Man.
@@Handles_AreStupid Honestly I feel like I've only just scratched the surface too 😅
@@pico-cosmos Don't get me wrong, I have really weird and nieche hobbies too. It's nice to see someone get passionate about something. I just never really thought someone would have that passion for sea monkeys of all things, but then again, I have met someone that was passionate about rubber bands, so I guess there really is a person out there for every possible topic.
That's why I'm here: To learn exactly how much of a con the product is. Answer: Nearly 100%
@@UnitSe7en How's it a con you get sea monkeys don't you whats the con?
Never in a million years did I think I'd watch a 45 minute video about sea monkeys in 2024, but here we are.
My sea monkeys just hatched yesterday!
🎉 congrats!
I don’t know why the algorithm brought me here, but I’m glad it did. This video was SO much fun. I had Sea Monkeys in the 1970s. Brought back lots of memories. Thank you
I used to have sea monkeys when i was a kid and my mom made me
Get rid of them because she said they were blood suckers because of the plasma. She thought they’d escape the tank and infest the house and bite us. During the summer she blamed any mosquito bite on the sea monkeys
🥲 that’s a little sad
I guess she was thinking of mosquito larvae.
@@conanhighwoods4304 Ahh. I couldn't make the connection.
Super high quality video, well done!
I think a good way to test the various feed powders' effects is to test two aquariums with similar conditions and sea monkeys and feed one the test food and the other standard food - many times at the end you shrugged your shoulders and said you couldn't be sure, so if you ever revisit this topic you could draw better conclusions.
John il be 62 on 9/28/2024, and after watching a couple of your videos on sea monkeys ,I’m hooked can’t help myself .i have seven tanks with sea monkeys in them,and I know one packet they DO NOT NEED and that the packet you said makes them get it on ,they males and females I have (that’s all they do once they reach maturity,it reminds me of me when I was 16 through 20 lol .anyway thank you for getting me back on my feet and giving me something I love to do .the one thing I want to learn how to do is get that algae growing ,I saw you putting a few drops of algae and then you used F2 A and B fertilizer to get it going I’ll master it .i bought some phytoplankton and some nannochloropsis,don’t know if either of those are the perfect ones but the algae barn picked out thenannochloropsis ,and I heard you talking about the other one . Well good luck and thanks again .🕊️🦅✌️🙏
Glad to hear you’re finding success with your tanks :) Nanno is a great algae option 👌 I’ve recently been experimenting with regular liquid plant food as a fertiliser and it’s been working really well, though F2 is probably ideal. Good luck with your algae culture!
I imagine some kid in the 80s buying these packets hoping this will finally make the shrimp as cool as they are on package.