In case you never saw a real set, they have you peer through some gauze that softens edges. I forget how/when I finally saw some, I didn’t buy them myself but and you knew they was going to be a bust but what a giant letdown.
Those are Nothobranchius, the annual killifish. There are other species of killies that spawn in a normal fashion.
Yeah, that’s the genus - there’s a dazzling array of species.
I don’t know of anyone who keeps the non annual varieties, but some of them are quite pretty. I’m not sure why they’re not more popular! I do see online that they’re kept, I’ve just never come across it I guess.
This is really interesting:
I had no idea the same hormones are involved in seahorse gestation as in mammalian pregnancy. According to the article the brood pouch performs some of the same functions as a placenta, and in their experiment they found the diet of father and mother independently affected the health and morphology of the offspring - it really doesn’t sound like you’d be able to send the eggs though the post and have them hatch successfully.
I ordered them. Unfortunately it was cold the day they were delivered and only one made it. It lived for quite a while, though.
In an unheated, unfiltered fish bowl, like the ad implies?
I had a small saltwater aquarium in the late '60s - early '70s, and successfully raised seahorses for a while. But I bought the original pair from a tropical fish store. The adults grew to about three inches in that limited environment.
The pair I tried must have had a diffraction grating or similar. It definitely looked like each finger had a central, darker “bone”. Of course every thing you looked at had the same bone in it.
Which means the size of Aquaman has been greatly overrepresented.
It may have been, I saw the xray specs before I knew about diffraction grating. I sort of remember it being dark fabric, maybe lacy? but could gave been grating ridges.
I got a really cool-ass car that way!
Yes, people ordered them (I did); no, they did not survive very long.
You’re one lucky, guy. Right? 
Yes. It was a lot of work. I should have waited until I was older and had an actual aquarium, and gotten them from a pet store.
I found this Youtube short. It’s the first time I’ve seen video of sea horses.
May I ask how it was delivered? I’m assuming a truck brought it to them, although a shipping crate wouldn’t surprise me. I actually heard of people transporting small children that way back in the day!
I’m in the midst of watching this miniseries right now! It’s insane, as are the people in it. They make the Joe Exotic crew look positively normal.