New competition going! Hurry! Only one prize !

[UncleBodman]

Hi Guys

We currently have a new prize on the go.

What you’ll win?

One of our new "aquarium air pump operated" air bubblers that are actually safe for sea dragons and sea monkeys infact all Artemia type critters. (Thats a first! )
One packet of egg-splosion Formula
One packet of our newly released “Fading Baby Medicine”
read here for more details on the new med
http://www.littleaussieproductsshop.com/Medicine-for-Fading-Baby-Syndrome-p/sdmeds-001.htm

and lastly,
one of our “Itsy Bitsy Magnetic Algae Cleaners” these are so cool and lots of fun too, more details and pictures coming.

How to win?
Be the first to post the correct answer to this question and win the lot!

The Question?

Who was the first manufacturer to market an “Instant Pet” and what was that pet ?
The info is out there on the net guys so go find it!

[lipkel]

the first manufacturer was Harold Nathan Braunhut aka Harold Von Braunhut and the instant pet is Sea-Monkeys/ (Artemia salina × nyos)

[UncleBodman]

the first manufacturer was Harold Nathan Braunhut aka Harold Von Braunhut and the instant pet is Sea-Monkeys/ (Artemia salina × nyos)

Wrong. Keep going.

[lipkel]

manufacturer Moose pet sea-monkeys?

[lipkel]

manufacturer Harold von Braunhut pet "Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys"

[UncleBodman]

No He He.
Keep Going !

[BillabongBug]

I would say the same what lipkel wrote. They do claim they were the first to sell "instant pets". I also found a cool name "Artful Arties", but that's basically the same thing.

[lipkel]

manufacturer Harold von Braunhut and the pet was Instant life?

[lipkel]

dam i wanna win this thing so bad i have never won anything before !

[lipkel]

manufacturer Harold von Braunhut and the pet was Instant life! IT HAS TO BE IT!!!!!

[BillabongBug]

I have no idea but in this topic- viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40 at the end of Johns post from 17/01 he mentions that it's not sea monkeys.

[lipkel]

DAYAM!

[lipkel]

instant life for the win !!

[UncleBodman]

No. You two are going to have to do some actual research.
Forget about sea monkeys its not it.

[lipkel]

lol nice picture willy wonka this is frustrating im sure its "instant life" as the pet and manufacturer is Harold von Braunhut


can you give us any clues ? other than its not sea monkeys

...i wanna win

[lipkel]

manufacturer Frank Austin and the pet was ants

[lipkel]

manufacturer Uncle Milton Industries pet ant farm

[lipkel]

manufacturer Milton Levine and pet ant farm

[lipkel]

manufacturer Frank Austin and pet ant farm

OH CCMON!!!!!!!!

[lipkel]

manufacturer Gary Dahl and pet rock

[zanman]

The first manufacturer was Harold Von Braunhut and the Crazy Crabs!

[BillabongBug]

"instant life" and "instant pets" are registered trademarks of Transcience Corporation

[zanman]

Was it Dr. Jordan's with their pet The Swarm?

this must be it!

[Tophin]

Harold Von Braunhut "The Invisible Fish"

have we got a winner yet??

[Tophin]

wham-o instant fish, the wham-o company of california

[lipkel]

unclbodman TELL ME IF IM RIGHT ITS KILLING ME!!!!

[UncleBodman]

Ok Ok settle down Lipkel

Well I’m going to give this prize to Lipkel

Because he was the first to correctly answer the question by calling Ant Farm which was arguably the first mass marketed instant pet.

Essentially there were 4 possible answers that I would have accepted but I wanted to see just what else would came up in your answers.



The four that I know of and would classify as instant pets based on "a simple criteria"

Can be mailed to you live or in suspended animation.
Is considered a pet.

are

Silk worms kept as far back as the 1800s
The hobby of silk worm keeping was very popular in the mid eighteen hundreds if not from a pragmatic angle i.e. ( hoping to make a silk garment from the cocoons.)

Very ornate little boxes were often made to hold the silk worm eggs

http://bcwa.paris.online.fr/pages/Cartonnage.htm

Raising silkworms was a popular hobby in Germany at in the 1800s, and silkworm kits were common gifts for children

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rmIbClRzfeoC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=silkworms+hobby+history&source=web&ots=LPOOyPySMR&sig=iep6K7LdyXXFQ5MVjhBpZHyekgU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA196,M1

http://journeytoforever.org/edu_silk_kids.html

Hatching Bird eggs 1880s

http://www.helenaguergis.ca/EN/5120/60951


Ant Farm 1950s
Although for most parts of the world Ant farms are only available as the farm its self ant farms in the USA where they originated have historically been available by mail order with live ants as far back as the mid 50s.



Mexican Jumping Beans 1930s

I can’t yet find any reference to them being sold by mail order but I’m sure there are references out there as they were extremely popular at the time as they are now. And making a big comeback it seems if you do a little googleing.
Jumping Beans in popular culture
Jumping beans were used as a recurring gag in many cartoons in the 1930s to the 1950s, wherein a character eating the beans would cause his/her whole body to bounce out of control and land on or in something painful

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_jumping_beans


Unfortunately Instant fish slides in just after Sea Monkeys but not very far behind.
http://www.wham-o.com/default.cfm?page=aboutushistory

On the other hand perhaps I should have waited until somebody called silkworms but i dont know how long we would have had to wait. He He

[lipkel]

dayam u must of done some hard research to pull up bird eggs and silk worms i saw the mexican jumping beans but i just couldnt find any info on when they were sold and who by. but sweet i won !!!!

[BillabongBug]

Hmm... In my local pet store they sell silk worms, I do have an ant farm (empty though...) and I heard many times about jumping beans. I just didn't ever think that they are so popular and have such a long history behind them .
Although they werent litteraly "instant pets" like sea monkeys or triops that give an impression of hatching from a powder.
Who was the first manufacturer for silk worms as pets?
Oh, and congraulations (!) Lipkel I wouldn't ever guess ant farms or silk worms... <think out side the box>

[lipkel]

thanks billabongbug yeah got to admit this one was tougher then i thought it would of been (he said it was going to be easy)

[lipkel]

when will i be receiving my prize? along with my last order?

[andrewjfrosenbaum579]

You forgot about 'Fish Boom Bah'
Don't leave them out!
They're killifish nothobranchius. They were on the markets in America a long time ago but failed to keep them going because the eggs have to be partially wet.

[BillabongBug]

Andrew! Havent seen you in a while
That's right, I remember that they did try to sell killifish on a big scale but they never got to produe enough eggs to make a profit.
They were launched in 1990 right? So still way after sea monkeys. So there isn't much point of mentioning them.

[Tophin]

actually wham o instant fish were killifish and were sold before seamonkeys. I was also wondering about the fact that the pets you mentioned weren't "instant" pets and also that there was no information on who first distributed them since that was the original question.

[cameron! :)]

is there going to be anymore competitions?? because when i first read about these ones (on the first day they got put on!)
i still didnt manage to get in on time, i tried to but everyone already put all these answers in, and the other test they put all these peoms and raps and stuff in ...so yeah i think i was a bit late lol
so if you could make another competition that would be grand
thanks

[Extractum]

Definaetly. (well, thats how I spell it. so there)

[cameron! :)]

lol haha thanks again ur a great helper