13 September 2008

billabong bugs... better than sea monkeys

I was always curious about the sea monkeys advertised in old comic books. They always looked too small and never resembled the illustrations.

Triops australiensis, a species of Notostraca and sometimes referred to as tadpole shrimp, has been packaged as aquarium pets called Billabong Bugs.



I think they look really cool.

It seems we are only now catching the Triops fad already in the US.

I wonder if Triops would eat sea monkeys.

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Didn't do much today.

2 comments:

Bogdan, the editor said...

I wonder if they are tasty.

Anonymous said...

They definitely will eat sea monkeys. They're also cannibals, and tend to eat whatever happens to be smaller than they are.