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With seadragons having a unique look with a multicolor camouflage attracts many visitors-making the seadragon display the most popular exhibit in the Aquarium. Since they tend to be slow swimmers, their camouflage plays a big role in their survival.
Since seadragons have only been on display since the late 1990s, there is still a lot to learn about this fish. Aquariums hope the mesmerizing nature of the seadragons will provoke a sense of curiosity and wonder to inspire visitors to protect the oceans.
Aquariums have found it difficult to mimic conditions that are susceptible to breeding seadragons where no institutions have yet to bred leafy seadragons. However, the New England Aquarium has reported successful early stages of breeding but the egg was unable to transfer from the female to the male.
Breeding for seadragons is unlike seahorses. For seadragons, the make carries the egg while the females lay them. After the male carries them for approximately eight weeks, the seadragon is hatched and can live independently from the parent immediately.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) marked weedy and leafy seadragons species of ‘least concern.’ They are marked with such title as their population is, for the most part, healthy. However, their close relatives- seahorses and pipefish are an endemic due to them only being able to live in certain areas of the world due to their water temperature sensitivity.
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