Waikiki Aquarium to debut new weedy seadragons
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The Waikiki Aquarium is debuting five new juvenile weedy seadragons on Tuesday.
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The young marine animals will be added to the Amazing Adaptations exhibit.
The seadragons were obtained through a collaboration with the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois.
After successfully completing their 21-day observational quarantine, the young seadragons are ready to make their public debut.
Native to Australian waters, weedy seadragons are relatives of seahorses and pipefish.
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Similar to seahorses, male weedy seadragons incubate eggs on the underside of their tails.
They are also known to perform an intricate mating ritual, spinning snout-to-snout and moving vertically in the water to fertilize and transfer eggs from the female to the male’s tail.
Weedy seadragons are known for their leaf-like appendages and elongated bodies.
Last year, the Waikiki Aquarium took in 10 other weedy seadragons from the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.
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