September 6, 2007

  • Sea Monkey Update

    Hmmm... I'm pretty sure Speedy has passed on; but it's been very
    interesting watching the remaining 'lil guys in the last few weeks. 
    You see, I've got about 6 left, with one little baby now growing.  Of
    the adults, I've got 3 females, and 3 males (or Hynemen, as I like to
    call them due to their big bushy whiskers that quite shockingly
    resemble a particular TV personality...), and the females have all
    developed this beautiful salmon-coloured shade to their bodies and the
    inner parts of their swimming legs.  It happened about the same time as
    I started having this brilliant deep thick green frondy algae (and not
    the slimy kind) start to grow along the bottom of the tank.  There's
    lots of algae now at the bottom and the little guys are absolutely
    loving it!  They are constantly diving to the bottom and frolicking
    through it to feed, and since the algae gives them an extra dose of
    oxygen and food they're energetic as mexican jumping beans on
    caffeine.  They've also been mating like crazy, and since there's an
    even match of males and females, I look in the tank and it looks like
    there's only three really long sea monkeys.  The females all have big
    egg sacs, but as of yet, I only see one or two babies.  Interesting. 
    Seems like they're all super-healthy.

    On another note, Discovery has been
    airing a whale-load of Mythbuster episodes lately, especially yesterday
    (after their Steve Irwin Antarctica Special - it's about a year
    anniversary since the world lost the Crocodile Hunter; and on yet
    another note, the world lost Pavarotti last night too).  Yay.  One was
    a season 4 episode (episode 62: Killer Cable Snaps, Pottery Record)
    where they tried to make pots with sounds recorded into them.  It's
    funny to see the increasing friction between Tory and Kari - it's so
    painfully obvious he's got the hots for her, and when she takes out her frustrations during the screaming at the pots bit.  haha...  The new season 6 "ninja myths" episode they showed was also awesome - I just thought it was hilarious that almost all the ninja movie clips they showed were from bad hk/chinese kung fu movies, lol.