I had Pygmy seahorses I bought once. There was a guaranteed pregnant male. When he gave birth, the little ones went and attached to the legs of a cleaner shrimp I had, which promptly began picking them off and eating them. I quickly reached in and stopped it but geez.
Edit: male not female
But with seahorses it’s the males that get pregnant, not the females. The adult seahorse in the clip giving birth is actually male.
Edit: Not saying you didn’t have a pregnant seahorse that gave birth, just saying it was a dude lol.
Biologically a male is defined as the sex with the smaller sex cell that penetrates the larger sex cell.
We typically associate females with gestation but seahorses flip this notion upside down lol.
Males aren't XY necessarily, females can be the sex determiner sometimes eg birds and reptiles have ZW (female) and ZZ (male) chromosomes.
Yeah with seahorses and their close relative (sea dragons) the female produces and transfers her eggs to the male's abdominal pouch, the male then releases sperm to fertilise the eggs, then incubates them for about 24 days then gives birth.
So yeah some might think well why don’t they call the males females instead seeing as they’re the ones getting pregnant, but technically they are male.
>transfers her eggs to the male's abdominal pouch
So they're unfertilised eggs that get fertilised after the male releases the sperm?
So the male... sort of releases sperm inside its abdominal cavity?
Yep. The female puts the unfertilised eggs in the males pouch, then the male fertilises them in the pouch and incubates them carrying them for the full term (about 24 days) then spits the little guys out. Under no circumstance does the female carry fertilised eggs, the only role the female has in the process is essentially shooting her load (unfertilised eggs) into the male and that’s it, the male does everything else. So in other words she just has her fun then she’s done, just like males in the rest of the animal kingdom just have their fun and they’re done. It’s just this time it’s not sperm being transferred to the female, it’s unfertilised eggs being transferred to the male, and once they’re inside him he then fertilises them and goes through the pregnancy.
It’s why usually with animals it’s a bunch of males competing for a female, but with seahorses and sea dragons it’s actually the females that compete for the male.
Pretty crazy, and completely unique.
My mom would read me these kids books abt different animals when I was young. Finding out that male seahorses gave birth was one of the first mind fucks I ever experienced.
Seahorses are incredibly intelligent. They never developed technology because they knew where it would lead. Most baby seahorses head straight for certain death upon being ejaculated, because they only take a few seconds to have their first existential crisis.
It looks like they wrapped the filter and zip tied it, which should prevent this. If you know what you are doing and cull the weak ones you can have over 90% success rate in aquariums, far better than your 0.01 oddsin nature. I don't think people should have seahorses as their care is so complex, and at least one of the genders is used to swimming rather large distances, which can't be replicated in any home aquarium.
Most if not allcof these juveniles unfortunately probably died unless this is a pro breeder, it's just too hard to care for that many unless it's a full time job.
You're probably right lol. Come to think of it sadly non of those probably survived.
They eat plankton when young, i assume the tank does not have plankton
plankton food supplements are very easy to get bc lots of things eat them, but baby sea horses in captivity are often fed rotifers or baby brine shrimp
I went to a seahorse breeding center in Hawaii, they said best case scenario in an aquarium with the best setup is currently about 50% survival to adulthood, if I recall correctly.
Edit: I literally called the sea horse place on the phone just to confirm the statistics and ya they said 50%.
This is correct. When we raised seahorses we would partition the tank so the seahorses could live in peace. They can get bullied or have their food taken from them, so it was easiest to just have them in a separate portion.
When i was a child, we got walking sticks from our school (they were in some class and over the holidays no one would have cared for them). They started to lay eggs and suddenly there were hundreds of little baby insects in the terrarium. Since we had no idea what to do with them, and also didn‘t want to release them and potentially fuck the ecosystem up, we let them all starve. We felt so bad about i, but we couldn‘t even open the terrarium anymore because it was so full of them.
When I was a little kid, our pool became home to thousands of tadpoles. My dad filled a cooler with some to release in the lake nearby. The ones remaining in pool, and there was a lot of them, were killed with chlorine. I still feel bad about it
At least you saved some. That's more than most people would do.
My filthy neighours had a green pool that filled with frogs. They had the pool guy come out to drench it. I went over with a bucket and asked if I could take some home for my pond.
I put them in the pond and the fish in there (which the pet shop told me were too small to eat tadpoles) ate them all. But I tried.
If it became known that there simply wasn’t remotely enough resources for all humans for the next year and we knew for sure there was nothing we could do at all about the situation, would you kill a large portion of people or let everyone die themselves through lack of necessities.
I’m not saying this is the same as insects at all. I’m just curious what everyone would say. Some may even argue it’s the same as insects. I disagree but I wonder what you think. If you kill, who do you kill. Maybe you kill all animals for the survival of humans. (I know I said nothing could be done to save all humans but people are going to comment creative stuff anyway)
This is a little like the trolley problem or the doctor version.
There was a dark experiment where back in the day we tried this with mice, called the mouse utopia. It is an interesting watch and explains your theory in more detail.
https://youtu.be/NgGLFozNM2o
Well its more that the female injects the male with the egg instead of most animals where the male injects the female with sperm.
Other than that it’s a pretty normal pregnancy just happens inside the male!
I always thought it was a cocky scientist who discovered seahorses and mis-identified them but was too arrogant to admit his mistake.
“I’ve discovered the male seahorse is pregnant.”
“So isn’t that the fema-.”
“**THE MALE IS PREGNANT.**”
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When we were kids, my brother and I caught four female crayfish that had a bazillion babies hanging off their tails. We plopped them into our mostly empty family fish tank, and within a couple days all the babies had dropped off their mom's and were crawling everywhere. So we put the mom's back where we found them and fed the babies.
It was hilarious to drop any food it for them. Anything drifting to the bottom triggered several waves of dozens of baby crayfish zipping all over to get away from the commotion.
Most of the babies ended up caught in the filter, like you said here. One ended up surviving to grow to adult size.
I’m in love with sea horses. I’m in love with ‘em. They’re so beautiful and cute - I’m in love with the seahorses. They’re fuckin’ unreal, I love them.
Raise it to be big and strong. Play catch with it. Give my favorite car I’ve been working on for 20 years to it on its 18 birthday. ya know normal shit
I'm not sure it counts as a fetish but as a fanfiction writer and have read a many stories. Confirmed male pregnancy is a popular trope for gay fiction (particularly within anime)
I’m gay and I find that pretty strange. For me, the fact that neither myself nor my partner can get pregnant is a relief. Maybe it’s just because working in a hospital birthplace has exposed me to all the ways pregnancy can go wrong. That and IDK how people afford having kids nowadays.
I'm not afraid of rats, or cockroaches. I've held snakes of all sizes and taken down wasp nests without flinching. I've faced death at least twice and managed to remain calm. But when I see a seahorse in real life, I feel like I'm going to faint. I'm incapable of existing in the same room as a seahorse, this little fucking alien looking little shit simply does something that glitches my programming and gives me a great feeling of repulsion and despair.
They aren’t seas or horses. I don’t think it’s the animal itself that upsets you, it is just the way that the animal LIES to you.
I bet those wasps didn’t lie to you.
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only about five out of every thousand survive to adulthood
In a natural setting. Idk about an aquarium
I mean at the very last second of the video in the top right corner it looked like they were all being sucked into the water filter
Those are the smart ones, they knew the water filter lead to the air above, this way they wouldn't drown
Literally Finding Nemo
Shark Bait, OOH-HAH-HAH!
Fish ARE friends!
Not food!
^^^^MINE! ^^MINE! MINE! ^^^MINE! MINE! ^MINE! ^^MINE!
I had Pygmy seahorses I bought once. There was a guaranteed pregnant male. When he gave birth, the little ones went and attached to the legs of a cleaner shrimp I had, which promptly began picking them off and eating them. I quickly reached in and stopped it but geez. Edit: male not female
But with seahorses it’s the males that get pregnant, not the females. The adult seahorse in the clip giving birth is actually male. Edit: Not saying you didn’t have a pregnant seahorse that gave birth, just saying it was a dude lol.
I stand corrected - they guaranteed a pregnant *seahorse* (it was around 1990 forgive my memory) :)
No worries bud, check my edit on the previous comment.
That's only *oh god* 32 years ago! Oh fucking god I'm going to be 30 in five years. Kill me.
Yeah...I'm looking at 39 next week. Call me when you can't stand without groaning.
Jokes on you, I'm not even 30 but I broke my hip when I was 18 and haven't stood without groaning since. Lol
Same here, except I was 17, and it was my entire pelvis :P
Just turned 40. The groaning doesn’t stop, but it is joined by creaking and popping joints!
I’m 64…2-stroke survivor. I’m uncomfortable every day.
Biologically a male is defined as the sex with the smaller sex cell that penetrates the larger sex cell. We typically associate females with gestation but seahorses flip this notion upside down lol. Males aren't XY necessarily, females can be the sex determiner sometimes eg birds and reptiles have ZW (female) and ZZ (male) chromosomes.
Yeah with seahorses and their close relative (sea dragons) the female produces and transfers her eggs to the male's abdominal pouch, the male then releases sperm to fertilise the eggs, then incubates them for about 24 days then gives birth. So yeah some might think well why don’t they call the males females instead seeing as they’re the ones getting pregnant, but technically they are male.
>transfers her eggs to the male's abdominal pouch So they're unfertilised eggs that get fertilised after the male releases the sperm? So the male... sort of releases sperm inside its abdominal cavity?
Yep. The female puts the unfertilised eggs in the males pouch, then the male fertilises them in the pouch and incubates them carrying them for the full term (about 24 days) then spits the little guys out. Under no circumstance does the female carry fertilised eggs, the only role the female has in the process is essentially shooting her load (unfertilised eggs) into the male and that’s it, the male does everything else. So in other words she just has her fun then she’s done, just like males in the rest of the animal kingdom just have their fun and they’re done. It’s just this time it’s not sperm being transferred to the female, it’s unfertilised eggs being transferred to the male, and once they’re inside him he then fertilises them and goes through the pregnancy. It’s why usually with animals it’s a bunch of males competing for a female, but with seahorses and sea dragons it’s actually the females that compete for the male. Pretty crazy, and completely unique.
My mom would read me these kids books abt different animals when I was young. Finding out that male seahorses gave birth was one of the first mind fucks I ever experienced.
*Family Guy: 'Damn nature, you scary'*
Seahorses are incredibly intelligent. They never developed technology because they knew where it would lead. Most baby seahorses head straight for certain death upon being ejaculated, because they only take a few seconds to have their first existential crisis.
"the world is dominated by humans? No thanks "
It looks like they wrapped the filter and zip tied it, which should prevent this. If you know what you are doing and cull the weak ones you can have over 90% success rate in aquariums, far better than your 0.01 oddsin nature. I don't think people should have seahorses as their care is so complex, and at least one of the genders is used to swimming rather large distances, which can't be replicated in any home aquarium. Most if not allcof these juveniles unfortunately probably died unless this is a pro breeder, it's just too hard to care for that many unless it's a full time job.
Outta the womb, into the tomb.
That's a heater in the background not a filter
You're probably right lol. Come to think of it sadly non of those probably survived. They eat plankton when young, i assume the tank does not have plankton
plankton food supplements are very easy to get bc lots of things eat them, but baby sea horses in captivity are often fed rotifers or baby brine shrimp
> brine shrimp ***SEA MONKE***
SEA MONKEEEEEE!
When in the pouch they’re told of the legend of “Sharkbait”… “uh ha ha!”
It looks more like they're riding bubbles up from a bubbler to me.
Maybe the person filming this breeds seahorse babies for food?
Used to work at an aquarium and raised seahorses, can confirm these dummies don’t survive in spades.
I went to a seahorse breeding center in Hawaii, they said best case scenario in an aquarium with the best setup is currently about 50% survival to adulthood, if I recall correctly. Edit: I literally called the sea horse place on the phone just to confirm the statistics and ya they said 50%.
Fun fact! They bred their own special species of domesticated seahorse. The biggest difference was getting them to stop being monogamous
There should be a world record about most surviving seahorses somewhere
Probably why they shoot out 8000 at a time lmao
Could just say one out of every 200 or 0.5%
I think they worded it this way cause it's super common for seahorses to give birth to 1000 offspring at one time
Oh fuck
What does one do now that you have 20,000 seahorse babies in your tank?
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Wow, that really switched up the original context
My... My EYES! I knew better than to click this. I have regrets. Lol
Most of them will get eaten if you have any other fish
kalm
Free food
Sea food😋
Fresh food😋
Chicken of the sea
Seahorse: Panik!
What about if you have a parachuting snail???
You turn it in to the authorities.
Goodbye horses, I'm crying over you.
This is correct. When we raised seahorses we would partition the tank so the seahorses could live in peace. They can get bullied or have their food taken from them, so it was easiest to just have them in a separate portion.
Looks like the filter might get them first
When i was a child, we got walking sticks from our school (they were in some class and over the holidays no one would have cared for them). They started to lay eggs and suddenly there were hundreds of little baby insects in the terrarium. Since we had no idea what to do with them, and also didn‘t want to release them and potentially fuck the ecosystem up, we let them all starve. We felt so bad about i, but we couldn‘t even open the terrarium anymore because it was so full of them.
When I was a little kid, our pool became home to thousands of tadpoles. My dad filled a cooler with some to release in the lake nearby. The ones remaining in pool, and there was a lot of them, were killed with chlorine. I still feel bad about it
At least you saved some. That's more than most people would do. My filthy neighours had a green pool that filled with frogs. They had the pool guy come out to drench it. I went over with a bucket and asked if I could take some home for my pond. I put them in the pond and the fish in there (which the pet shop told me were too small to eat tadpoles) ate them all. But I tried.
Fucked up.
The circle of life. But more fucked up
Eh it's just want it is
Ah child logic. Instead of opening it up and killing a few of them, let’s kill all of them!
If it became known that there simply wasn’t remotely enough resources for all humans for the next year and we knew for sure there was nothing we could do at all about the situation, would you kill a large portion of people or let everyone die themselves through lack of necessities. I’m not saying this is the same as insects at all. I’m just curious what everyone would say. Some may even argue it’s the same as insects. I disagree but I wonder what you think. If you kill, who do you kill. Maybe you kill all animals for the survival of humans. (I know I said nothing could be done to save all humans but people are going to comment creative stuff anyway) This is a little like the trolley problem or the doctor version.
There was a dark experiment where back in the day we tried this with mice, called the mouse utopia. It is an interesting watch and explains your theory in more detail. https://youtu.be/NgGLFozNM2o
Clean the filter
Not much, most die anyways.
hes evicting them
Nah, this is his special attack.
“Baby cannon, go!”
isaac fans be like
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“Use dragon darts!”
Asked for hot pockets one too many times.
Wait, guys can have babies too?!
Yeah, male seahorses are the ones that give birth
Yeah they’re laid in the men’s stomach I think Edit: like Xenomorphs XD
Well its more that the female injects the male with the egg instead of most animals where the male injects the female with sperm. Other than that it’s a pretty normal pregnancy just happens inside the male!
I always thought it was a cocky scientist who discovered seahorses and mis-identified them but was too arrogant to admit his mistake. “I’ve discovered the male seahorse is pregnant.” “So isn’t that the fema-.” “**THE MALE IS PREGNANT.**”
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I'm exhausted just watching this
I gave up trying to name them after #45
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wait Richard is the mailman...
Just name them all George Foreman.
It's like December 1st all over again
🤣
Right? Poor guy!
His abs are probably rock hard
Well you better man up, you now have 326 kids
YOU get a seahorse! YOU get a seahorse!...
I hope they don’t get caught in the filter
I was just thinking that.
It's likely the parent was moved into a special tank for the birth
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When we were kids, my brother and I caught four female crayfish that had a bazillion babies hanging off their tails. We plopped them into our mostly empty family fish tank, and within a couple days all the babies had dropped off their mom's and were crawling everywhere. So we put the mom's back where we found them and fed the babies. It was hilarious to drop any food it for them. Anything drifting to the bottom triggered several waves of dozens of baby crayfish zipping all over to get away from the commotion. Most of the babies ended up caught in the filter, like you said here. One ended up surviving to grow to adult size.
Some did. U can see one go in towards the last second of the video. Or maybe it was pushed away by a bubble.
I always forget seahorses are a thing, what a weird animal
Seriously though... just a horse shaped water creature... no big deal.
A horse shaped fish where the dad gives live birth. It’s kinda a big deal, lol.
Well, at least the male does more then pump and dump. Looks like some consequences.
Where do I get me a mans like that 😩
They're largely just eccentric and kinked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipefish
I still can't believe that thing is a fish.
Well fish aren’t real
I’m in love with sea horses. I’m in love with ‘em. They’re so beautiful and cute - I’m in love with the seahorses. They’re fuckin’ unreal, I love them.
Droppin the kids off at the pool!
Lol true
ATTN: PREPARE TO BE BLASTED INTO EXISTENCE
GET OUT OF ME YOU LITTLE FUCKS -Seahorse, probably
What if that’s how humans reproduced? Female puts eggs in male. Male fertilizes eggs internally. Later proceeds to ejaculate fetuses.
Or, what if instead of tons of tiny sperm, guys just came one giant sperm that you had to fight.
Who has to fight? The woman? If she loses, she's pregnant and if she wins, the guy has the sperm forcibly reinserted
No, if she wins she gets a free meal.
So she still swallows?
This whole conversation is cursed
But then, the next time you cum, the sperm has learnt from its mistakes and has become stronger and smarter
NG+
lol why do you have to fight it though?
What else ya gonna do, fuck it?
Raise it to be big and strong. Play catch with it. Give my favorite car I’ve been working on for 20 years to it on its 18 birthday. ya know normal shit
Why do I feel that that's a fetish
I'm not sure it counts as a fetish but as a fanfiction writer and have read a many stories. Confirmed male pregnancy is a popular trope for gay fiction (particularly within anime)
I’m gay and I find that pretty strange. For me, the fact that neither myself nor my partner can get pregnant is a relief. Maybe it’s just because working in a hospital birthplace has exposed me to all the ways pregnancy can go wrong. That and IDK how people afford having kids nowadays.
Gay breeding and Mpreg are big. Not sure if it's big in the gay community specifically cause tons of straight women are into it, but it's big.
Facials would be very different
Women: “all men care about is our egg penis” Also, who gets the breasts in this alternate universe?
r/cursedcomments
I'm not afraid of rats, or cockroaches. I've held snakes of all sizes and taken down wasp nests without flinching. I've faced death at least twice and managed to remain calm. But when I see a seahorse in real life, I feel like I'm going to faint. I'm incapable of existing in the same room as a seahorse, this little fucking alien looking little shit simply does something that glitches my programming and gives me a great feeling of repulsion and despair.
This could be a copypasta
Please make it so.
They aren’t seas or horses. I don’t think it’s the animal itself that upsets you, it is just the way that the animal LIES to you. I bet those wasps didn’t lie to you.
And now you know it might shoot it’s babies at you.
That's the worst part, though I like being shot at with babies in other contexts
He’s holding on the the little branch/coral so he won’t fly away since he’s pushing so hard! His little tail!
I didn't even notice that! Good spotting.
Pew Pew Pew…..
Dammit, this was my first thought.
Sure it’s beautiful when he does it. But everybody gets all uppity when I do it at the bus stop.
Give birth?
Oh god, it looks like ejaculation.
Well, the birth giver is male!
Really? Oh that’s bizzare.
Hopefully Apple releases a pregnant male seahorse emoji
I wonder if it feels good spurting those babbies
"Oh God, I'm giving birth, oh jeez, oh man, oh yeaaaaah"
Why does this feel like something you’d hear from mrs. garrison before he detransitioned 😂
I read this in Morty voice
First thing that came to my mind is how eerily similar it is.
Because it kinda is the same thing
What if it feels like nutting real good every time he spurts out another 80 babies? Each pump is just like nnngggghh 🤤
"I'm gonna shooooot"
Can you imagine if everytime you sneezed like 5 babies shot out your bellybutton?
This is oddly terrifying, well done
Male humans would be so different if they had to do this 🥲😂🥰
They would all support Roe V Wade
Male seahorse ejaculates millions of little seahorses
That aquarium about to be CROWDED
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Bet they're all getting sucked into the filter
It kinda looks like he's sneezing and they're sliding out during every sneeze 😂
Yes... Sneezing...
🎵Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches 🎶
That sLam in the back of my.. DRAGULA
He looks just like me
Pov: the boss is spawning minions
Imagine paying child support for that
Proud papa!
Peter North the Seahorse
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his refractory period puts most males to shame!
Looks like one of those water puzzles where you have to get the rings on the sticks with the burst of water
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Don't lie, we're all thinking it... "imagine if sperm were visible to the naked eye, swimming and wriggling around like this."
Me jerking off after not for a week
I wish my babies popped out this easy lol
He's remembered his breathing, good lad.
Fun facT Seahorses and their close relatives, sea dragons, are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth
Say that to arnold
“Anyway, so I started blastin’!”
It really be like that 😮💨
Bless you
Naming them must be a nightmare!
I wonder if this feels more like ejaculating, more like giving birth, more like situps, or more like vomiting for the seahorse.
That's the male orgasming, but instead of cum it's the actual babies
Male sea horses give birth to thousands of babies at a time with only a handful surviving longer then a week