1959 SEA HORSES magazine article, info, photos, harvesting, breeding etc

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Selling is a 1959 magazine article about:
Sea Horses
Title: Little Horses of the Sea
Author: Paul A. Zahl
Quoting the first page “One winter morning the kindergarten teacher in a New York City school for boys gathered her brood for a conversation period. Peter spoke profoundly on the subject of scooters; Jim, about his collection of plastic soldiers; Tom, of the sailboat pond in Central Park.
When it was our son Paul's turn, he announced that he would talk about sea horses, on which he considered himself something of a specialist. He had recently watched me set up, in our apartment, salt-water aquariums stocked with pygmy sea horses, whose more normal habitat is the grassy inlets and shallow bays of warm seas.
Our success had been considerable: Our horses frolicked contentedly in their aquatic corrals, feeding with gusto on the brine shrimp we provided, and giving birth in due course as though in the privacy of their natural environment.
The teacher nodded approval as young Paul began: "Yesterday I watched a sea horse give birth to many babies. I saw the babies come out of the father's stomach."
The teacher reddened slightly and interrupted to say:
"Paul, I think you mean a mother sea horse."
"No," insisted the youthful ichthyologist, "the father had the babies."
A patient smile played over the teacher's face as Paul, with quiet confidence, told how he and his sister Eda, age 9, had the night before watched a male sea horse delivering. One by one, the babies had come out of the
"stomach," usually tail first. Quickly they had gained confidence and propelled themselves off in search of a blade of grass about which to twine their tails.
Whether Paul convinced the teacher, I do not know. Next day in the faculty lounge, however, her story caused some chuckling. As she confessed subsequently to my wife, she was inspired to check Paul's story in an encyclopedia.
There it was in black and white-the facts of a strange life cycle in which the female sea horse deposits her eggs directly into the male's brood pouch. Here they are fertilized and developed, to be live-born after a hatching period of about 10 days.
Converting our apartment into a sea horse stable was more than a whim. In earlier years we had kept a home menagerie of animal pets, including many fresh-water tropical fish. Then, like many home aquariists, we discovered that certain marine species may be maintained almost as easily as their freshwa ter cousins; it is now possible to get salts and concentrates which produce a solution closely resembling pure sea water.
For the beginning salt-water aquariist, the pygmy sea horse (Hippocampus zosterae, a member of the fish group) is ideal, not only because the species is hardy, but because it is one of the most delightful miniatures in the whole aquatic world.
Our first shipment of sea horses arrived one…"
7” x 10”, 25 pages, 26 photos
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1959 magazine.
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