-+Dwarf+Seahorse

Dwarf seahorses live among beds of sea grass. With their long tails they hitch themselves to blades of grass as they graze on tiny animals that drift by with the currents. Their species name zosterae comes from the habitat they are found in. Zostrea is a type of sea grass AKA eel grass. Dwarf seahorses are usually about an inch. Some people call the dwarf seahorse a sea pony instead. Usually these seahorses are brown or white some are yellowish. Seahorses have bony plates instead of scales and they can hurt themselves by accidentally latching onto corals. When my class went on a trip to the zoo, we went where the seahorses were and i found this little guy. I thought he was cute so i decided to research him. It was amazing to see how they grab onto a piece of seaweed with their tail. They are so small, and yet they can clamp on to that seaweed. I found that they do not move a lot. When i saw them, they kind of latched on to seaweed and floated there. Seahorses are not aggressive eaters, they just wait for their food to float to them. You have to be careful with these little guys though; if you are wanting to take pictures of them...make sure your flash is all the way off or else you might kill them.



By:Tiffany