My Amazing Sea Monkeys

Welcome back to my blog. I am so excited to be sharing my first post by a guest blogger today!

I am pleased to introduce my friend Mark. I met him on an "over 50's" social site last year.  I read one of his very funny stories that he'd posted there. I just had to leave a comment about it, to tell him how much I enjoyed his brilliant humor and writing style! The rest is history. We have become good friends.

Mark (also known as Merchandiser) is very snooty about his favorite ice cream. Otherwise he is a very nice man!

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My Amazing Sea Monkeys

It was about 50 years ago when I ordered my sea-monkeys kit from the ad on the back of a comic book.  I was gullible and naive when I saw the picture of these playful creatures. Sea-monkeys were advertised to give their owners hours of fun. The cute picture of the sea-monkeys playing by the beach captured my attention as well as many other boys and girls. For those folks not familiar, sea-monkeys are actually a brand name of brine shrimp. They were sold as novelty aquarium pets and said to be educational while fun to watch them perform tricks.

Lo and Behold! The post office delivered my sea-monkey kit last week. It was sitting in some room in a dead file of  undelivered mail. I live in a different house but same zip code and the efficient postal employees found me. Our postal service came through, albeit five decades late.
Anyway, of the dozen or so eggs included the kit, three sea-monkeys hatched. I call them Iggy, Piggy and Squiggy.

Sea-monkeys are very tiny creatures. They are just a few millimeters in length. A magnifying glass will help see them much more clearly.

Iggy is all female. She loves to swim the backstroke, sit in the sun (my flashlight) and sip her sea-monkey nutrients.
Piggy is male. He's a bit heavy (for a sea-monkey) but he  swims like Michael Phelps. He's a bit sluggish most of the time and likes to float on a piece of popcorn I dropped in the aquarium.
I think Squiggy is a rare hermaphroditic sea-monkey with both male and female appendages.
Squiggy can jump several inches above the water and loves doing back flips and showing off other aquatic talents.

Our new trio of pets has made a wonderful addition to our home. Even my wife is fascinated by them. They can live up to two years with proper maintenance of the aquarium and diet.

Now I'm hoping that our post office can come through again with another package I ordered decades ago. Wouldn't it be exciting of my X-RAY glasses showed up in my mailbox tomorrow?












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