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(12,158 posts)get along with sea monkeys? That's what I'd need to know before adopting a water bear.
Great video. Water bears are amazing!
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)You can even allow the mini-aquarium to dry up, store the tank in a memorabilia box where it can be found by your grand children; and all they have to do is add water in order to resurrect the pet.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)I just read this article about them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/science/the-tardigrade-water-bear.html?_r=0
It seems odd that they can withstand almost everything that would kill other animals, but that their lifespan is only about a year.
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)"Tuns have been reconstituted after more than a century and brought back to life as tardigrades, looking not a day older."
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)became even more astonished at their amazingness!
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)I think I'll be a water bear!
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)made my night, thanks
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)The only problem with Tardigrades As Pets is how extremely small they are.
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)Sea Monkeys can grow large enough to see. But, given the near immortal qualities of a water bear I don't think we want to enhance the size much larger.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Because they are so incredibly ugly they won't even mate with each other!