The first thing that I think of when considering Sea Monkeys is how ridiculously unlike the crown wearing
aristocracy of the
ocean that they are portrayed as in advertisements in the back of
comic books they really are. In the more
idealistic days before I actually got my first set I spent considerable time pondering the significance of aquatic creatures having
opposable thumbs and wearing
pink ribbons. Ok, so I wasn't a very
logically inclined preteen.
The only possible upside to marketing Sea Monkeys to children is that it acquaints them with the concept of death and the fragility of an ecosystem. Both of these aims can be accomplished by either spilling the tank (overt) or forgetting they exist (passive.)