Endangered Sea Dragon Lays Eggs
June 13th 2008 14:57
Okay, so this one really isn't a pet that you'll find in your average at-home aquarium, but it deserves its own notice.
So the big aquarium in Georgia (the Georgia Aquatium) spoted about 70 eggs on their male sea dragon.
This will be the third time that the rare sea dragon has ever laid eggs in captivity in the U.S., making this a monumental birth.
They believe that there's somethign that triggers the species to want to mate, but no one knows exactly what that is.
The aquarium employees recently thinned out the plants and changed the lighting in the 18" sea dragons' tank in hope that it would give them room, and it worked.
In the wild, the survival rate for sea dragons is pretty low, but in captivity it's about 60%. This is just another species on the endangered list. Unfortunately pollution and human population growth in Australia has caused the decline of hte species.
Of all the aquariums in the world, there are only about 50 of them who have sea dragons in their facilities.
So the big aquarium in Georgia (the Georgia Aquatium) spoted about 70 eggs on their male sea dragon.
This will be the third time that the rare sea dragon has ever laid eggs in captivity in the U.S., making this a monumental birth.
They believe that there's somethign that triggers the species to want to mate, but no one knows exactly what that is.
The aquarium employees recently thinned out the plants and changed the lighting in the 18" sea dragons' tank in hope that it would give them room, and it worked.
In the wild, the survival rate for sea dragons is pretty low, but in captivity it's about 60%. This is just another species on the endangered list. Unfortunately pollution and human population growth in Australia has caused the decline of hte species.
Of all the aquariums in the world, there are only about 50 of them who have sea dragons in their facilities.
During mating, the female lays dozens of eggs and then transfers them to the male's tail.
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