Sea Dragons

I learned a lot about sea dragons during this project. Here are some basic facts about sea dragons. Sea dragons live on the southern and western coast of Australia and are protected because scuba divers take them and keep them as pets mad if this keeps happening, before we know it the sea dragons are going to be gone. Sea dragons already have enough predators to still be alive, but not enough to be kept as pets. Sea dragons are carnivores, and they eat larval fish, mysids ( which is a type of crustacean ) and zooplankton. There was one fact that really stood out to me during this unit was instead of a female carrying eggs, the male carries them and the females go live solitary lives. The female gives the eggs to the male, by placing them on his tail. Then the eggs stay there until they hatch.

I thought that the two different kinds of sea dragons were amazing. The weedy is bright with pretty colors while the leafy is yellow or brown but has really cool appendages. It was really cool learning that the sea dragons sucked up zooplankton through its mouth which was like a vacuum vacuuming up the zooplankton. I thought it was a lot of fun researching this animal and its behaviors. by Cece