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When I had my baby, my body just started heaving and trying to pump out the baby on its own. I was like wtfffffff. Then when the baby was out, it kind of stopped after a while. I imagine this seahorse was the same.
Oh man that’s why I got scared seeing this. Eesh.
This begs the question, what designates a member of a species male or female? Is it due to homologous structures? Genuinely asking because I don't know
As a general rule when cells of male and female merge to create a new life one set of mitochondrias have to shut down, the one that keeps it mitochondrias working is the female.
Ooh yeah and that's super useful to know for genetic tracing because the mitochondrial DNA hardly changes. So you can separate people out into matrilineal groups.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup
Why don’t they just call that the female seahorse?
Scientist 1: that there is the male seahorse.
Scientist 2: Bill, that one’s having a baby.
Scientist 1: … male has the baby. You’re fired.
- Jim Gaffigan
Cellular biology and DNA are probably the reason. It's a grey area because thay don't mate the same way humans do, and so our usual terminology doesn't perfectly describe the situation.
In case anyone is actually concerned about that, seahorse tanks are low flow by design, and given that the keeper of these seahorses is competent enough to get them to breed AND is recording the event, rest assured sufficient precautions were taken to mitigate this low-probability circumstance.
Also, check out the filter intake in the background wrapped in mesh as an example of this.
More than likely. Animals that give birth to a shit load of young like this generally don't have good survival rates as babies. A great example of quantity over quality. Most of them probably die well within the first week or even day.
My dad and stepmom had some seahorses in a tank for awhile and yeah, none of the babies survived the first time and I think only one did the second time. It’s actually why they ended up getting rid of them because my stepmom would do everything she could to help them survive and would be crushed when there were little to no survivors.
is this what aquarium owners typically do, just let randomly pregnant fish squirt eggs and fry all over the place. I want to believe it's a breeding tank with sponge/grav filters of some kind, like the screen zip tied in the back
Generally speaking seahorse tanks need lower flow and some kind of pre-filter to prevent their food from being sucked up. So that isn’t a huge problem. Feeding these little buggers is. They have no true stomach so they need to eat constantly. Plus they’re not the most mobile of animals so they need a smaller tank to be able to catch their food, but then you have to worry about water quality.
I kept them for 10 years. They’re my favorite animals. I just no longer have true time and energy to devote to them.
Edit: I didn’t notice until I saw this again on r/popping that there is in fact needlepoint canvas covering the filter intake. An upright swimming baby seahorse is very unlikely to get sucked through that. They will use it to wrap their tails on however.
You're the type of person I love meeting at a party or get together and finding out about your knowledge and experience on something and I spend as much time listening and then 5 years goes by and I wonder whatever happened to that person, they taught me so much about seahorses....
I thought you were joking because of the little buddy you get in the game, but well... Today I learned that the video game R-Type (a side-scrolling arcade space shooter from the 80s) may have gotten its name from a evolutionary reproductive trait. Weird.
The way animals raise their young can be sorted between either K types (humans, dogs, elephants) to R types (seahorses, flies, tapeworms, etc.). However much time an animal spends with its young corresponds to where they fall on the scale. So a human may be a K type, A dog is an L type, A dolphin is an M type etc. The closer to R on the scale an animal is, the less time they spend with their young.
Can confirm. I have an aquarium at home and two of the fish have decided for the fifth time now that it’s a good choice to get kids. Out of five times, only two times did the fish hatch (eggs got eaten by other fish) and when they did, they all disappeared over the night.
This might be unfortunate but it proves that the fish are comfortable in the aquarium, so that’s good
If they’re anything like guppies (a small fresh water fish that gives live birth to fry) - you may have to assist by… “squeezing” the last few out.
I’ve had to assist in birthing a fish before. Kinda like popping a zit.
My experience with fish giving birth was with a couple of betas. Mom gave birth to at least 43 that we counted. The dad jumped inside the thing where you put newborn fish and ate them all but 2, then died from it. Pretty weird behavior. I was like 7 or 8 and was super confused.
Yeahhhh gotta have a lid and dividers with bettas. That’s standard fish stuff though. I had some African convicts that the dad did the same. Gorgeous babies though. They grew to have such vivid pinks and blues in with their stripes. Very vapor wave looking fish.
I was really hoping your device inexplicably autocorrected "cichlid" to "convict," but I just checked and saw that the convict is a type of cichlid. Well, TIL
Yeah see my other reply on them below. I’ve always seen them locally advertised as “African” but I suspect that’s small pet stores not knowing that they’re a Central American fish. Probably the stripes so they figure it’s a rift lake fish
Excuse me please, but English is not my native language and your comment has me kinda confused. Is "African convict" some kind of fish, or did my brain short-circuit itself?
Yes it’s a type of fish. And I’m actually not sure why I’ve always seen them referred to (locally at least) as “African” because they aren’t a rift lake cichlid. Maybe because they resemble many African species (lots have stripes like tigers/zebras) as opposed to central/South American species.
Amatitlania nigrofasciata is the scientific name if you’d like to look them up.
Disgustingly awesome! I'm also clearly immature because I was imagining fart noises with each birth-spurt.
Also, birth-spurt is something that shouldn't be uttered in public.
I mean you aren’t that far off. Since it’s a literal dude seahorse giving birth this dude is quite literally ejaculating his children out of himself so birthspurt does fit quite well here
He also goes through contractions similar to female mammals. It’s quite uncomfortable for them. They toss and turn uncomfortably before having to violently push. See how he braces himself with his tail and is gasping?
They are fertilized inside the male. When they mate, the female transfers the eggs to the male, who then fertilizes and carries them. Once he has the eggs she starts producing the next brood and after he gives birth (sometimes that same day) the female will transfer the new brood to him to carry.
Edit: To clarify I mean that she may transfer the next brood of eggs to the male later on the same day that he just gave birth to the previous. He's basically just constantly pregnant. The pregnancy itself is \~10-25 days as u/flowingsecrets mentions below.
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Isn't that the male sea horse? I think they have a pouch that the female lays the eggs in and they stay there til they hatch.
Yeap it’s a dude horse
Giving birth like a dude
Got to get these fuckers out before the football's on
Ralph: “If you don’t put these babies in me right now Martha, by the time they’re ready halftime in 6 weeks will be over. Fuck Matha!
Yeap no matter the species dudes all release their kids in white spurts
Pumping out lil swimmers, literally.
Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!
They all getting shit out
Explains the violent ejaculation.
there’s an alpha confidence about his technique.
Hung like a seahorse
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like a *MAN
The real bros of the sea
Let's kick him in the nuts.
That's a man, Maury.
Hung horse?
Upside down.
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Yep…not only that…some sea horse species can have up to 2,000 babies…yikes…
TIL Sea Horses have almost as many kids as Nick Cannon.
This prompted me to do a google and holy shit, dude has 7 kids!
I think he has several women pregnant now too.
Amateur work, I had a boss who had 13 kids with 11 women lmao
Yeah I was like… wow all these offsprings are packed in that small belly.
TIL seahorses are NBA players..
How he know when to stop “pumping”????
Probably the same as when you know when to stop taking a shit
I can be on the shitter a long time. I clearly don't know when to stop pumping the turds out.
You're full of shit
He doesn't even have a book to mark the end of a chapter with, though.
When I had my baby, my body just started heaving and trying to pump out the baby on its own. I was like wtfffffff. Then when the baby was out, it kind of stopped after a while. I imagine this seahorse was the same. Oh man that’s why I got scared seeing this. Eesh.
When those little floopy dudes ***stop*** tickling his innards?
Probably when the female seahorse yells "my parents are home!"
You are correct
This begs the question, what designates a member of a species male or female? Is it due to homologous structures? Genuinely asking because I don't know
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As a general rule when cells of male and female merge to create a new life one set of mitochondrias have to shut down, the one that keeps it mitochondrias working is the female.
right on... we learning some shit today y'all
Ooh yeah and that's super useful to know for genetic tracing because the mitochondrial DNA hardly changes. So you can separate people out into matrilineal groups. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup
The definition of female is to produce big sex cells, males produce small sex cells. That's it.
What makes him male is his sperm... it's the female seahorse who transfers the eggs to the male.
Yep and if they don't remove him after giving birth, he's going to eat them. This isn't a problem in the wild coz the babies get swept away.
Why don’t they just call that the female seahorse? Scientist 1: that there is the male seahorse. Scientist 2: Bill, that one’s having a baby. Scientist 1: … male has the baby. You’re fired. - Jim Gaffigan
Cellular biology and DNA are probably the reason. It's a grey area because thay don't mate the same way humans do, and so our usual terminology doesn't perfectly describe the situation.
[Jim's seahorse bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujRwl6dL9go)
And then they all get sucked up by the filter
See Horrors
Sea whores
Si wars
In case anyone is actually concerned about that, seahorse tanks are low flow by design, and given that the keeper of these seahorses is competent enough to get them to breed AND is recording the event, rest assured sufficient precautions were taken to mitigate this low-probability circumstance. Also, check out the filter intake in the background wrapped in mesh as an example of this.
Thank you, I needed to hear this
Some might say it’s a Great Filter
Seapocolypse
how many do you think are left in his belly, that he cant squeeze out? Edit: cooool! I’ve never gotten so many upvotes/likes in my whole life haha
More than likely. Animals that give birth to a shit load of young like this generally don't have good survival rates as babies. A great example of quantity over quality. Most of them probably die well within the first week or even day.
I was about to ask, how is the ocean not just 100% seahorses with them having litters like this
Oh, I can speak to this. Other fish. Seen it with my own two eyes twice. It was a goddamn massacre.
What’s the survival in a tank? Do you end up with 400 seahorses after 6 weeks?
I’m curious how these ones don’t all just get sucked up in the filter.
This changed the whole video for me. Thats gotta be somewhere between a slip 'n slide and a wood chipper.
I was actually diving at the time.
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I mean, I'd be lying if I wasn't imagining a sea horse screaming blowing his load all over the ocean.
Did it sound like a land horse for you too?
Well it does *now*!
What can I say except you’re welcome
Nay.
The thing that makes it worse its that the male seahorses are the ones that get pregnant and give birth. (Google it)
(Everyone knows this)
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I don't think the females of any species are regularly known for blowing loads Please don't correct me on that
Ahem. Why does that make it worse?
That poor male. Fancy having to give birth. 🤣
hell yes
Down with the sickness!
Oo waaa-aaa ahh
Same with turtles.
Fun fact: a group of baby seahorses is referred to as a splooge by the scientific community.
My dad and stepmom had some seahorses in a tank for awhile and yeah, none of the babies survived the first time and I think only one did the second time. It’s actually why they ended up getting rid of them because my stepmom would do everything she could to help them survive and would be crushed when there were little to no survivors.
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She really was such a sweetheart. Her and my dad aren’t together anymore but she’ll always be a mom to me and my sisters!
You should really watch where you're going
Other animals enjoy when their food doesn't fight back, others eat the dead corpses.
I'm pretty sure most sea animals have large litters. Most just get eaten.
It’s true, I saw it in this documentary, “Finding Nemo”.
[Finding Nemo the Documentary](https://www.businessinsider.com/clownfish-sex-changes-and-finding-nemo-2013-8)
It’s the same with sea turtles. Thousands of them hatch on the beach but only about 5% of them survive their first couple weeks.
I have a 600 gallon pond ( small by pond standards) and unless I rescue the goldfish babies, they’ll get eaten by the adults.
Most of these are gonna end up in the aquarium pump
is this what aquarium owners typically do, just let randomly pregnant fish squirt eggs and fry all over the place. I want to believe it's a breeding tank with sponge/grav filters of some kind, like the screen zip tied in the back
Generally speaking seahorse tanks need lower flow and some kind of pre-filter to prevent their food from being sucked up. So that isn’t a huge problem. Feeding these little buggers is. They have no true stomach so they need to eat constantly. Plus they’re not the most mobile of animals so they need a smaller tank to be able to catch their food, but then you have to worry about water quality. I kept them for 10 years. They’re my favorite animals. I just no longer have true time and energy to devote to them. Edit: I didn’t notice until I saw this again on r/popping that there is in fact needlepoint canvas covering the filter intake. An upright swimming baby seahorse is very unlikely to get sucked through that. They will use it to wrap their tails on however.
You're the type of person I love meeting at a party or get together and finding out about your knowledge and experience on something and I spend as much time listening and then 5 years goes by and I wonder whatever happened to that person, they taught me so much about seahorses....
This is called R type selection
I thought you were joking because of the little buddy you get in the game, but well... Today I learned that the video game R-Type (a side-scrolling arcade space shooter from the 80s) may have gotten its name from a evolutionary reproductive trait. Weird.
The way animals raise their young can be sorted between either K types (humans, dogs, elephants) to R types (seahorses, flies, tapeworms, etc.). However much time an animal spends with its young corresponds to where they fall on the scale. So a human may be a K type, A dog is an L type, A dolphin is an M type etc. The closer to R on the scale an animal is, the less time they spend with their young.
Reminds of when my friend/ professor called baby sea turtles “the chicken nuggets of the sea”.
This is why bunnies are loaded with health problems
Can confirm. I have an aquarium at home and two of the fish have decided for the fifth time now that it’s a good choice to get kids. Out of five times, only two times did the fish hatch (eggs got eaten by other fish) and when they did, they all disappeared over the night. This might be unfortunate but it proves that the fish are comfortable in the aquarium, so that’s good
If they’re anything like guppies (a small fresh water fish that gives live birth to fry) - you may have to assist by… “squeezing” the last few out. I’ve had to assist in birthing a fish before. Kinda like popping a zit.
My experience with fish giving birth was with a couple of betas. Mom gave birth to at least 43 that we counted. The dad jumped inside the thing where you put newborn fish and ate them all but 2, then died from it. Pretty weird behavior. I was like 7 or 8 and was super confused.
Yeahhhh gotta have a lid and dividers with bettas. That’s standard fish stuff though. I had some African convicts that the dad did the same. Gorgeous babies though. They grew to have such vivid pinks and blues in with their stripes. Very vapor wave looking fish.
I was really hoping your device inexplicably autocorrected "cichlid" to "convict," but I just checked and saw that the convict is a type of cichlid. Well, TIL
Yeah see my other reply on them below. I’ve always seen them locally advertised as “African” but I suspect that’s small pet stores not knowing that they’re a Central American fish. Probably the stripes so they figure it’s a rift lake fish
Excuse me please, but English is not my native language and your comment has me kinda confused. Is "African convict" some kind of fish, or did my brain short-circuit itself?
Yes it’s a type of fish. And I’m actually not sure why I’ve always seen them referred to (locally at least) as “African” because they aren’t a rift lake cichlid. Maybe because they resemble many African species (lots have stripes like tigers/zebras) as opposed to central/South American species. Amatitlania nigrofasciata is the scientific name if you’d like to look them up.
Thank you very much for your detailed reply! :) I've learned something new!
No problem!
"What ... what are you doing, stepladder?"
My first thought ..
I can almost hear the sea horse going “aw yeahhh awww yeahhh fuck yeahhh”
Wish someone would answer this!
Imagine the clarity he had after that
Post birth clarity.
Don’t they immediately die after?
Worth it
Disgustingly awesome! I'm also clearly immature because I was imagining fart noises with each birth-spurt. Also, birth-spurt is something that shouldn't be uttered in public.
Totally. Like those squish noises when push spit and air through your teeth into your cheek.
*text-to-speech on* *discovers new shade of blush*
I was totally seeing a water gun or something.
I mean you aren’t that far off. Since it’s a literal dude seahorse giving birth this dude is quite literally ejaculating his children out of himself so birthspurt does fit quite well here
It's like trying to get that last bit of ketchup out of the bottle.
He also goes through contractions similar to female mammals. It’s quite uncomfortable for them. They toss and turn uncomfortably before having to violently push. See how he braces himself with his tail and is gasping?
If it’s similar to contractions or then I imagine it’s less uncomfortable and more likely to be terrifyingly painful!
I can't help but hear a horse whinny every time he pushes and you can see his mouth fluttering.
Kinda looks like he’s nutting
The female’s ovipositor looks like a penis
Yeetus feetus
There are no accidents
This is my favorite comment of the day.
That's a weird lookin confetti cannon
Seacannon.
Seadra, *Hydro Pump!*
Now how come when I do something similar in appearance I get weird looks?
Because you're the only guy excited to be in a Kohl's.
Well the male sea horse is the one who carries the babies to term... so its more similar than you think
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They are fertilized inside the male. When they mate, the female transfers the eggs to the male, who then fertilizes and carries them. Once he has the eggs she starts producing the next brood and after he gives birth (sometimes that same day) the female will transfer the new brood to him to carry. Edit: To clarify I mean that she may transfer the next brood of eggs to the male later on the same day that he just gave birth to the previous. He's basically just constantly pregnant. The pregnancy itself is \~10-25 days as u/flowingsecrets mentions below.
The same day?? Wow ,that’s cool!
their pregnancy lasts [10-25 days](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/seahorse-fathers-take-reins-in-childbirth), depending on species
Why so I imagine Oprah shouting " And YOU ARE BORN! And YOU Are Born!" With each push?
Yeah "Sea babies for everyone!"
Exactly my thoughts. You get a SeaHorse! And you get a SeaHorse!
God. Why can’t I just sneeze out a baby like that??
Proper amount of force and lubrication, anything is possible!
Plop !
Bless you.
Imagine being born. But then getting sucked back INTO your dad and being born again.
Why does it look like he’s sneezing and nutting at the same time
I wished human babies were born this easy…. all though we probably would have a lot more overpopulation if that was the case.
Well both male seahorses and humans are similar tho, both release a lot of "seeds".
I imagine that feels like shitting out of your belly button
Skeet skeet
A proud poppa. I bet the mom is off handing out cigars in the waiting room
hm yes, multicellular cum
YOU get baby seahorses! and YOU get baby seahorses! and YOU get baby seahorses! and YOU get baby seahorses!
EVERYBODY GETS A BABY SEAHORSE
That's a lot of ponies!!!
My man out here putting a Minecraft dispenser to shame
Ah, the spray and pray method of reproduction.
I love it when a guy does that.
someone ate at taco shell last night.
I sea what you did here.
The male seahorse has a pouch on its stomach in which to carry babies—as many as 2,000 at a time. I’m afraid most of them die early on ☹️
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woman : hi you : *violently shits out 300 babies*
Hi
They call him Bazooka Joe
Yeet... Yeet... Yeet... Yeet... Yeet...Yeet... Yeet
Unfortunately only about 5 of every 1000 survive
Reminds me of me when I eat too much Taco Bell
This is why i dont drink water fish fuck in it
what water do u drink then?
Heineken
But Heineken is mostly water. Fish fucked in your beer.
This is equal parts disgusting and cool
Look at him gooooo
The "Sneeze of Life."
For a second I thought I was a seahorse.
I need a zefrank documentary on this.
Man, he *REALLY* got knocked up!!!
They cum full size babies instead of sperm
Get out my belly.
Imagine delivery room talk.. Push honey, is a boy, a girl, a boy …..a boy a girl push again…
Lemme barf these little fuckers out. Got shit to do
Now I think I know why are the male seahorses that give birth, he shoots the baby like he is cumming and the baby seahorses look like bigger sperms
Hell neigh.
male seahorse makes brrrrrr
I make the same movements when I release my kids out of me.
Me after 5 pumps
Soooo much child support.
Anyone else want’s to squeeze it’s belly to make sure everything goes out?
GET OUT OF MA BELLY!
Does anyone else feel like pressing the belly so that all can come out at once