Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1913 — Herd of Seahorses. [ARTICLE]

Herd of Seahorses.

The biggest herd of seahorses the New York aquarium has ever had is now on exhibition there, 288 in number, and including many specimens six Inches or more in length. These seahorses were aesembled from Sayville, L. 1., Gravesend bay and Belford, N. J. The largest specimens came from Sayville. They are in two tanks on the gallery tier, salt water side. In nature the seahorse feeds on many minute forms of marine animal life. It eats just batched out fishes an eighth of an inch in length, the eggs from the shrimp and various very small marine worms. In captivity it thrives best on a tiny shrimplike crustacean known as gammarus, which is found on some forms of vegetation in the brackish waters at the head of salt creeks or in the pools of salt marshes that are overflowed by the tides, They could not be gathered separately, the vegetation with the gammarus clinging to it is brought to the aquarium, where the little crustaceans are separated from it