I found a fantastic vintage knitted seahorse toy pattern on eBay and wanted to share it with you. It's from a wonderful eBay seller called FanncyNancy (some of her other items are listed below). The pattern is a digitally cleaned up and restored reprint of a vintage original - the picture to the left is a knitted-up version of the pattern. I'm excited about making up the seahorse in lots of different yarns and sizes. The pattern calls for worsted wool and #4 double-pointed needles - this makes a seahorse toy around 7" high, but I'm thinking they would look very cute made from left-over sock yarn....

When my puppy Farfl went into the vet's today to have her stitches removed following her spay, she was whimpering and crying with nerves. She did not enjoy her previous visit at all! I felt guilty so I looked for a toy to buy her as a kind of consolation prize for having to go back there so soon. I couldn't believe it when I found a seahorse - perfect! It's from a great company called West Paw Design - they create dog and cat toys from recycled materials. The seahorse is made from recycled plastic bottles - it's fleece material. The toy is very soft and durable and wasn't significantly more expensive...

Artificial plants make great hitching posts for seahorses. But after a while they get dirty. Grimy. Gunky. Nasty-looking. How do you clean them? It's not that hard. Just follow these simple steps for clean, algae and mold-free plants. One note of caution before we start - never use detergent or bleach as residues from these products can poison your seahorses, other fish or live plants in the aquarium. It's just not worth the risk and it's completely unnecessary to use them. Gently remove the plant in question from the tank. Be careful not to disturb the substrate or other plants if you can possibly...

A paper published last month in Biology Letters uses the pygmy pipehorse to explain how seahorses evolved. Two Australian researchers - a marine biologist from Macquarie University in Sydney and a biological oceanographer from Flinders University in Adelaide - have used DNA testing to explain one of the mysteries of seahorse evolution: when and why did they start swimming upright? Dr. Peter Teske and Professor Luciano Beheregaray used DNA testing to find the seahorse's closest relative - the pygmy pipehorse. The pygmy pipehorse has a tail like a seahorse - built to cling on to plants instead of...

Here are the top five seahorse facts everyone should know. Number 1: Where do Seahorses Live? Seahorse habitats exist in almost all the seas and oceans of the world - except in the coldest areas of the very north and the very south. Since they don't tend to move far from one spot, being weak swimmers, they tend to live on the coasts where seas are shallower, there is more light and so more plants and coral for them to cling onto. Number 2: Who's the Daddy? The pregnant male. Yes, it's true. In one of the most amazing animal adaptations every seen, pipefish, seahorses and seadragons are the only...

Welcome to The Seahorse Shop! We aim to bring you all the very best in seahorse information - whether you're interested in live seahorses or seahorse art, where to buy a saltwater aquarium or watching a pregnant seahorse giving birth. If you want facts about seahorses to share with your children or want to know how you can find seahorses for sale - you've come to the right place! I've been fascinated by seahorses ever since I was a child and first saw them in an aquarium in the south of England - I spent hours drawing and painting them and had a seahorse stuffed animal. I've always gravitated towards...