Pygmy Seahorses

 Pygmy Seahorses

There are seven different species of pygmy seahorses. Pygmy seahorses are 2cm in size being one of the smallest in the world. Their scientific name is Hippocampus Bargibanti. The can be found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean.

Camouflage is one of pygmy seahorses specialities. They live in sea fan coral that comes in the colours purple and orange. The pygmy seahorses change colours to match the coral and they grow tubercies (bumps) that make them change colours to match the colour of the coral that they first land on.

Pygmy seahorses do a courtship dance to create the baby pygmy seahorses. When they are first born they are dark brown, and they come out of the fathers brood pouch.

Pygmy seahorses eat small crustaceans. And they are a group of crabs, lobsters, shrimps ETC. Their predators are large fish and sharks that live in the very big ocean.

The coral reef is getting destroyed because of so much temperature changing, fishing nets, acidification and more. This is so important because some of the pygmy seahorses live there and it is dying.