I think it'd be cool to set up a desert terrarium with some cool cacti and a desert critter/insect and have like a little mini-ecosystem in there. It's something I really want to do actually.
You can't give up now. Can you just imagine how stylish you would be with this?
And as if wearing a locket of sea monkeys wasn't enough for anyone, on those really special days you could go whole hog and wear a "watch" full of sea monkeys also.