The aquarium’s sea dragon has about 70 fertilized eggs _ which look like small red grapes _ attached to his tail. Sea dragons, sea horses and pipe fish are the only species where the male carries the eggs, Gladish said. The aquarium recently changed the lighting and thinned out the plants in the sea dragons’ tank to give them room to court each other. In the wild, the survival rate for sea dragon babies is low, but in captivity it’s about 60 percent, Gladish said. read more

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