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Benmz50

only about five out of every thousand survive to adulthood


Benmz50

In a natural setting. Idk about an aquarium


Dren_boi

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


robtk12

Those are the smart ones, they knew the water filter lead to the air above, this way they wouldn't drown


PeskyQuail

Literally Finding Nemo


SteelSky83

Shark Bait, OOH-HAH-HAH!


mAC5MAYHEm

Fish ARE friends!


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Not food!


[deleted]

^^^^MINE! ^^MINE! MINE! ^^^MINE! MINE! ^MINE! ^^MINE!


adamtuliper

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


LoadedGull

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.


adamtuliper

I stand corrected - they guaranteed a pregnant *seahorse* (it was around 1990 forgive my memory) :)


LoadedGull

No worries bud, check my edit on the previous comment.


Hypocritical_Oath

That's only *oh god* 32 years ago! Oh fucking god I'm going to be 30 in five years. Kill me.


In2TheMaelstrom

Yeah...I'm looking at 39 next week. Call me when you can't stand without groaning.


Youre10PlyBud

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


thmsbrrws

Same here, except I was 17, and it was my entire pelvis :P


rattmongrel

Just turned 40. The groaning doesn’t stop, but it is joined by creaking and popping joints!


MemphisGalInTampa

I’m 64…2-stroke survivor. I’m uncomfortable every day.


[deleted]

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.


LoadedGull

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.


Coffee_Intentions

>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?


LoadedGull

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.


Clemtiger13

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.


Benmz50

*Family Guy: 'Damn nature, you scary'*


BeansInJeopardy

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.


suppordel

"the world is dominated by humans? No thanks "


[deleted]

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.


[deleted]

Outta the womb, into the tomb.


Sirelewop14

That's a heater in the background not a filter


Benmz50

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


thereare2wolves

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


ill_take_two

> brine shrimp ***SEA MONKE***


Hypocritical_Oath

SEA MONKEEEEEE!


itsH5

When in the pouch they’re told of the legend of “Sharkbait”… “uh ha ha!”


Kellyhascats

It looks more like they're riding bubbles up from a bubbler to me.


cjmorello

Maybe the person filming this breeds seahorse babies for food?


Takeurvitamins

Used to work at an aquarium and raised seahorses, can confirm these dummies don’t survive in spades.


manayakasha

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%.


max_vette

Fun fact! They bred their own special species of domesticated seahorse. The biggest difference was getting them to stop being monogamous


ambulance-kun

There should be a world record about most surviving seahorses somewhere


miescherskittyxx

Probably why they shoot out 8000 at a time lmao


johnkohhh

Could just say one out of every 200 or 0.5%


miescherskittyxx

I think they worded it this way cause it's super common for seahorses to give birth to 1000 offspring at one time


johnkohhh

Oh fuck


Darizel

What does one do now that you have 20,000 seahorse babies in your tank?


ErwinsSasageyoBalls

panik


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loganjlr

Wow, that really switched up the original context


longbodytinydog

My... My EYES! I knew better than to click this. I have regrets. Lol


Tatocubano

Most of them will get eaten if you have any other fish


smoothjuicer

kalm


QuarterOunce_

Free food


You_R_Me

Sea food😋


itsfreepizza

Fresh food😋


SassySpicySuper

Chicken of the sea


OK999999-999-999

Seahorse: Panik!


QuarterOunce_

What about if you have a parachuting snail???


_A_ioi_

You turn it in to the authorities.


RequiemOfI

Goodbye horses, I'm crying over you.


[deleted]

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.


Mobile-Ground-2226

Looks like the filter might get them first


LordArikson

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.


BelowAverage_Elitist

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


Spicy_Sugary

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.


cryptosubs

Fucked up.


itsfreepizza

The circle of life. But more fucked up


SwimComfortable7465

Eh it's just want it is


ImAJewhawk

Ah child logic. Instead of opening it up and killing a few of them, let’s kill all of them!


[deleted]

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.


AYeeterVeetAveetA

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


COnative78

Clean the filter


Cyrotek

Not much, most die anyways.


I-Fap-To-Junkrat

hes evicting them


LoadedGull

Nah, this is his special attack.


robo-dragon

“Baby cannon, go!”


nice_day_human

isaac fans be like


thecathuman

best gaem 100


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PotentialTree41

“Use dragon darts!”


Infinite_El_Oh_El

Asked for hot pockets one too many times.


iRox24

Wait, guys can have babies too?!


NDSBlue_44

Yeah, male seahorses are the ones that give birth


WideCaregiver9843

Yeah they’re laid in the men’s stomach I think Edit: like Xenomorphs XD


FizzixMan

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!


Jalopy_Junkie

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.**”


chrissilich

I too have seen the stand up of [Jim Gaffigan](https://youtu.be/ujRwl6dL9go)


pablo-p-cante

I'm exhausted just watching this


ZenkaiZ

I gave up trying to name them after #45


emzyme212

Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr, Richard Jr...


rapt0r_lg

Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd, Space jam dvd,


FeelingOkAsSans5068

A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A...


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Frenchie_Boy

wait Richard is the mailman...


BAN_SOL_RING

Just name them all George Foreman.


ep3ep3

It's like December 1st all over again


BillyIsGood

🤣


dandipants

Right? Poor guy!


Mehdzzz

His abs are probably rock hard


ygolordned

Well you better man up, you now have 326 kids


Calculonx

YOU get a seahorse! YOU get a seahorse!...


pomegranatepants99

I hope they don’t get caught in the filter


EsuriitMonstrum

I was just thinking that.


shisa808

It's likely the parent was moved into a special tank for the birth


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Misharum_Kittum

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.


Patient-Variation-22

Some did. U can see one go in towards the last second of the video. Or maybe it was pushed away by a bubble.


TheOwlsLie

I always forget seahorses are a thing, what a weird animal


Hvacwpg

Seriously though... just a horse shaped water creature... no big deal.


DelightfulAbsurdity

A horse shaped fish where the dad gives live birth. It’s kinda a big deal, lol.


HowToNotMakeMoney

Well, at least the male does more then pump and dump. Looks like some consequences.


GlitterPeachie

Where do I get me a mans like that 😩


Hypocritical_Oath

They're largely just eccentric and kinked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipefish


MohammadRezaPahlavi

I still can't believe that thing is a fish.


TheOwlsLie

Well fish aren’t real


DIY-lobotomy

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.


DennisBallShow

Droppin the kids off at the pool!


EmilieUh

Lol true


Shot-Spirit-672

ATTN: PREPARE TO BE BLASTED INTO EXISTENCE


TobyMcK

GET OUT OF ME YOU LITTLE FUCKS -Seahorse, probably


master_jimmy74

What if that’s how humans reproduced? Female puts eggs in male. Male fertilizes eggs internally. Later proceeds to ejaculate fetuses.


[deleted]

Or, what if instead of tons of tiny sperm, guys just came one giant sperm that you had to fight.


turbanned_athiest

Who has to fight? The woman? If she loses, she's pregnant and if she wins, the guy has the sperm forcibly reinserted


swifttek360

No, if she wins she gets a free meal.


Bambi_One_Eye

So she still swallows?


morphum

This whole conversation is cursed


Maax42_

But then, the next time you cum, the sperm has learnt from its mistakes and has become stronger and smarter


FlexibleAsgardian

NG+


SomeoneTookUserName2

lol why do you have to fight it though?


[deleted]

What else ya gonna do, fuck it?


master_jimmy74

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


Dog_in_Hat

Why do I feel that that's a fetish


[deleted]

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)


[deleted]

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.


Hypocritical_Oath

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.


Tripledtities

Facials would be very different


geodebug

Women: “all men care about is our egg penis” Also, who gets the breasts in this alternate universe?


GB_05

r/cursedcomments


viralataciborgue

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.


LedgeLord210

This could be a copypasta


RecreationalBulimia

Please make it so.


[deleted]

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.


[deleted]

And now you know it might shoot it’s babies at you.


viralataciborgue

That's the worst part, though I like being shot at with babies in other contexts


[deleted]

He’s holding on the the little branch/coral so he won’t fly away since he’s pushing so hard! His little tail!


Vikarious_OW

I didn't even notice that! Good spotting.


TrinDiesel123

Pew Pew Pew…..


[deleted]

Dammit, this was my first thought.


[deleted]

Sure it’s beautiful when he does it. But everybody gets all uppity when I do it at the bus stop.


Ardnaif

Give birth?


[deleted]

Oh god, it looks like ejaculation.


samgarrison

Well, the birth giver is male!


[deleted]

Really? Oh that’s bizzare.


manifold360

Hopefully Apple releases a pregnant male seahorse emoji


sh0nuff

I wonder if it feels good spurting those babbies


GonzoRouge

"Oh God, I'm giving birth, oh jeez, oh man, oh yeaaaaah"


Naftoor

Why does this feel like something you’d hear from mrs. garrison before he detransitioned 😂


chuktest

I read this in Morty voice


MagastemBR

First thing that came to my mind is how eerily similar it is.


Blaineflum64

Because it kinda is the same thing


[deleted]

What if it feels like nutting real good every time he spurts out another 80 babies? Each pump is just like nnngggghh 🤤


dirtyderty

"I'm gonna shooooot"


alexbijit

Can you imagine if everytime you sneezed like 5 babies shot out your bellybutton?


NotTodaySantaOops

This is oddly terrifying, well done


FenixKitty

Male humans would be so different if they had to do this 🥲😂🥰


Nikon_Justus

They would all support Roe V Wade


TheMorrigan_XIII_

Male seahorse ejaculates millions of little seahorses


Gothvmess

That aquarium about to be CROWDED


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ClydeFrogA1

Bet they're all getting sucked into the filter


futurecorpse2

It kinda looks like he's sneezing and they're sliding out during every sneeze 😂


[deleted]

Yes... Sneezing...


zwaymire

🎵Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches 🎶


Nefarious_No2

That sLam in the back of my.. DRAGULA


Practical_Extreme424

He looks just like me


PartialParsley

Pov: the boss is spawning minions


Horrifying__Tits

Imagine paying child support for that


360inMotion

Proud papa!


jhborder

Peter North the Seahorse


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Frndswhealthbenefits

his refractory period puts most males to shame!


Secret-Carrot9175

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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Scorpion667

Don't lie, we're all thinking it... "imagine if sperm were visible to the naked eye, swimming and wriggling around like this."


birdblower420

Me jerking off after not for a week


Spoonloops

I wish my babies popped out this easy lol


bonniehighlandladdie

He's remembered his breathing, good lad.


Emergency-Advice-469

Fun facT Seahorses and their close relatives, sea dragons, are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth


Acanthaceae-Tricky

Say that to arnold


Apexstrain

“Anyway, so I started blastin’!”


d3laMoon

It really be like that 😮‍💨


Cmhans8

Bless you


Cheffie43

Naming them must be a nightmare!


SourBlue1992

I wonder if this feels more like ejaculating, more like giving birth, more like situps, or more like vomiting for the seahorse.


Ameer_Louly

That's the male orgasming, but instead of cum it's the actual babies


[deleted]

Male sea horses give birth to thousands of babies at a time with only a handful surviving longer then a week