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 use to...
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 species...
Great Seahorse Dog Toy!
Posted by Rill on Jun 26th, 2009 in News | 0 comments
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...How to Clean Artificial Tank Plants
Posted by Rill on Jun 12th, 2009 in How To | 4 comments
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...Seahorse Evolution Breakthrough
Posted by Rill on Jun 10th, 2009 in News | 0 comments
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 use to...Top 5 Seahorse Facts
Posted by Rill on Jun 2nd, 2009 in Seahorse Facts | 2 comments
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 species...
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