Super Seahorses
By: Isabella Taglieri
Introduction: Super Seahorses
Seahorses put all of their trust in their dorsal fin which beats at 30 - 70 times per second. Seahorses have a crazy diet, a enormous habitat, and an extraordinary reproduction system.
Crazy Diet
Seahorses have a very different diet than humans. Seahorses eat up to 3 - 50 times a day. Seahorsesfry ( A baby seahorse ) eat a staggering 3,000 pieces of food per day! Seahorses eat small crustacean such as mysis shrimp plant. They eat the mysis shrimp plant by sucking on it through its long snout.
Enormous Habitat
Seahorses don’t live in a house they live under the sea. Seahorses live in shallow weeded areas even in eelgrass beds. Seahorses live in eelgrass beds but never rest there spiky heads.In winter they move into deeper water so they can escape easier when there is rough water. Seahorses are small so you might think that it is easy for them to escape the rough waters but it is not because they are not very good swimmers.
Extraordinary Reproduction
Seahorses have a extraordinary reproduction system! The male seahorse is the parent that holds the baby eggs! The Father usually holds up to 100 - 1,000 eggs. The eggs hatch in approximately 3 weeks. Many people know the predawn dance, the seahorses will synchronize their movement, dance, change colors, twirl around with linked tails around a color of a single strand of seagrass.
Closing
So know I need to go scuba diving to find some of these fascinating creatures for myself. and i can’t wait any longer! i have to go now, sorry i wish i could stay!