Life Cycle of a Seahorse

1. Life Cycle of a Seahorse By Molly 3rd grade 2014

2. Seahorses are fish. female seahorses lay up to 1,500 eggs into the male’s pouch. The male holds the eggs for 9 to 45 days. Then the baby seahorses hatch and appear out of the male’s pouch. This is a seahorse egg.

3. Seahorses hatch fully formed but they don’t look like fish. Seahorses have the head and neck of a horse and a monkey like tail. They are also covered in boney plates. Babies Adult

4. When seahorses grow they only get bigger they don’t go through metamorphosis like some amphibians.

5. When a seahorse becomes an adult it mates and start the cycle all over again. Seahorses mating

6. A seahorse usually lives for one to five years. Then they die, but the cycle continues forever.

7. The diet of a seahorse consists of mostly small crustaceans. They hunt them using there excellent camouflage. These are some of the things a seahorse might eat

8. Seahorses are mainly found in shallow temperate areas like seagrass beds and coral reefs all over the world. Seagrass bed. Coral reef.

9. Seahorses swim using a small fin on their backs that moves back and forth up to 35 times a second. This is the fin seahorses use to swim.

10. 7 Fun Facts There are about 40 species of seahorse. Seahorses have few predators because they are so boney. Seahorses use camouflage to hide from predators. Seahorses don’t have teeth or a stomach. Seahorses don’t have scales like other fish, they have skin. Some seahorses can be less than one inch long. Seahorses can pick things up with their tails.

11. Bye!