Pygmy Seahorses: Masters of Camouflage
By Joshua Cassidy, KQED Science (some footage by Rich Ross) Alternate copy of video: https://vimeo.com/124145465 Over the summer, biologists from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco returned from an expedition to the Philippines with some very rare and diminutive guests, a mating pair of pygmy seahorses. The two tiny fish, each shorter than an inch and […]
Pygmy Seahorses breeding at the Steinhart
Originally from Science Today at the California Academy of Sciences Academy researchers are among the first to study tiny, fascinating pygmy seahorses that live exclusively on coral in the Philippines. https://vimeo.com/107073346
Working with coral spawn in Florida
From Reefs.com Biologists from The Florida Aquarium, Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences, Moody Gardens, Disney’s The Seas, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium have gathered at the Coral Restoration Foundation’s facility in the Florida Keys to continue to expand our understanding of the sexual reproduction of the areas endangered Acropora cervicornis and Acropora palmata corals.
Gearing up for the MBI workshop – Breed somthing!
From Reefs.com In anticipation of the MBI workshop coming up on July 28th in Bloomfield Hills, MI, I have been breeding everything I can get my hands on – including the dwarf seahorse Hippocampus zosterae pictured above. These little seahorses max out at about an inch, and both parents and fry can be raised and […]
O. vulgaris hatchlings still alive and S. latimanus are cute
From TONMO Is been 10 days since the O. vulgaris eggs have hatched. The paralarvae were divided into three tanks, 2 pseudo kreisels (one with a light barrier, one without) and into the octopus display tank with just air bubbles for water motion. The female is still alive and tending several stalks of eggs that […]