Triops

>>2443821
People like pets they can actually pet.

triops are more like living decorations. In the same class as tomatoes and reef tanks. Except not as tasty/pretty.

The only time I have ever seen these or seamonkeys for sale have been at garage sales and fleamarkets. I am completely sure the last ones I bought 15 years ago where at the minimum of 20 years old when I bought them since the shop I bought them from had been opened since the 40s.

They still hatched.

Had a bunch as a kid from a kit I got at Toys R Us. Pretty neat. My dad called them my "dinosaurs"

>>2443827
They always seemed to have adds for them in those scholastic book catalogues. I never bought any though.

>>2443821
They're so fucking rad, I could only raise 4 adults tho. Never got them to lay eggs

>>2443827
That's the point, isn't it? I vaguely remember getting a booklet with triops saying their eggs lay dormant for extended periods of time in dry ponds until it rains again.