Seahorses feed on plankton. The smallest crustaceans they hunt down, funny spinning eyes. As soon as the victim approaches the miniature hunter, the seahorse inflates the cheeks, creating a negative pressure in the mouth and sucking the crustacean like a vacuum cleaner. Despite the small size of skates, great lovers of food and can be binge eating up to 10 hours a day.
Seahorse monogamous fish, they live in married couples, but from time to time they can change partners. Characteristically, these fish carry eggs, and males and females change roles. During the mating season, a tube-shaped ovipositor grows in females, and in the male thickened folds in the tail region form a bag. Before spawning, the partners perform a long marital dance.
The female lays eggs in the bag of the male and he carries them for about 2 weeks. Newborn fry leaves the bag through a narrow hole. Sea dragons do not carry bags and bear eggs on the stalk of the tail. Fecundity of different species varies from 5 to 1500 fry. Newborn fishes are completely independent and are removed from the parent couple.
