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Karen E.
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Posted: Jan 27 2006 at 7:30am | IP Logged Quote Karen E.
We've brought the great prehistoric outdoors inside, and are raising some triops. We're having a grand time with them and are especially delighted that we didn't lose all the eggs when our 3 yo opened the container at an inopportune time.

You can check out Triops.com to see the creatures. (We bought ours at Hobby Lobby, though.) Ours are still tiny. We're hoping we don't kill them before they get big enough to see a bit better!

This is satisfying the "sea monkey" craving I always had as a kid ... a craving my mother never gave in to. When I was 9, I so wanted to see king of the sea monkeys perched on a rock, just as he was depicted in the ad.

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Posted: Jan 27 2006 at 3:22pm | IP Logged Quote Willa
Oh, Karen, we raised Triops a few years back and also Sea Monkeys.   Didn't have those cute smiling faces though .   It was fun.... I should try it again for the recent 10yo who really wants a pet --- of his very own -- besides the cat and dog we already have

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Posted: Jan 27 2006 at 4:05pm | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
We love Triops. We liked them better than sea monkeys (they are bigger as they mature). From Triops, you can move on to horseshoe crabs .

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Posted: Jan 27 2006 at 4:06pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Last year my husband requested sea monkeys for Christmas. He always wanted them, so his "KK" got them for him. It satisfied a longing he had since his childhood!

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