A man who got Sea Monkeys said he felt 'creeped out' by a discovery he made when he started putting his little aquatic pets under the microscope.
You all know what Sea Monkeys are, and it's very possible that you had some as a pet at some point.
They don't live especially long in the grand scheme of things, so any you had as a child are long dead now.
I once had Sea Monkeys for a couple of years after getting them as a birthday gift, but eventually the biggest of them started hogging all of the food and it left the others (including its own babies) to starve to death. Then it died of what I can only assume was a combination of loneliness and old age.
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Anyhow, YouTuber Picocosmos got some Sea Monkeys and started putting them under the microscope as they grew so he could get a better look at what was going on inside their tank.
Keeping several tanks of Sea Monkeys, he spotted that they were growing gunk and algae from the bottom which actually turned into an ecosystem the little shrimp creatures could feed from.
However, putting this gunk under the microscope showed him something that 'kind of creeped him out a bit'.
What he found wriggling around down there were nematodes, tiny little parasitic roundworms that live all over the world including beneath his Sea Monkey tank.
They start doing a bit more once they get to be six months old, as they might start fighting over who gets the ladies in the tank.
If after about six months of having them you see a pair of Sea Monkeys stuck together and only one of them has whiskers then that's a mating pair and you might be able to expect more Sea Monkeys in the future.
If there's anything you ought to be 'creeped out' by when it comes to Sea Monkeys it's the man who invented them, one Harold von Braunhut.
As well as deciding that Sea Monkeys would be a great children's present, he also invented a number of other gifts for kids including X-Ray specs, a monster card that grew hair when you put it in the water and the 'invisible goldfish' which was just an empty fishbowl and some fish food.
He also bought weapons for the Ku Klux Klan and regularly attended neo-Nazi groups.
The inventor of Sea Monkeys being a massive white supremacist wasn't something he even tried to hide, when asked about it in an interview he once said: "You know what side I'm on. I don't make any bones about it."
Joe Harker