Ribboned Sea Dragons

mollymonticello

mollymonticello

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Went to the Mall of America this weekend to the Underwater Adventures aquarium. They just opened their seahorse and sea dragon exhibit. I got some cute pictures of the seadragons and wanted to share with you all.

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3547/3442675741_4393b54850.jpg?v=0">

I took a lot of photos, the rest of them are on my photobucket.
 
Isn't that a pipefish? I could be wrong, but I thought seadragons swam upright, like seahorses.

The other pics look like pipefish too.
 
No dragon swims upright.

They were called, until only a short few years ago, ribboned pipefish, but the name was changed to dragon, as it is more suited.
 
They do hitch though, right? Unlike other seadragons. I was under the impression they had been considered a pipehorse...
 
They don't swim upright the way seahorses swim upright. What does swimming upright mean to you? Seahorse's swim "belly-forward"; seadragons swim "belly-downward".
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14831172#post14831172 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Brock Fluharty
Dragons don't swim upright? Like leafy and weedy seadragons? Maybe upright means something different to Ozzies...=P
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Fair dinkum Brock,

The two are completely different in swim patterns, like Ann says, when a dragon swims, its belly is looking at the bottom, when a seahorse swims, its belly is looking at where it is going.

All dragons and pipes lay flat in swim mode.

They can hitch, sort of, nothing like a seahorse, more of a bend around something.
 
According to Rudie Kuiter's Seahorses, Pipefish, and their Relatives, the Ribboned Seadragon was previously named incorrectly based on trawled specimens that lacked their leafy appendages. He calls it a seadragon. I was skeptical at first, too, thinking it was probably just a pipehorse. But seeing them up close changed my mind. They are quite large, have lots of leafy appendages, and how do I say this...their faces make them look like seadragons. Taxonomy and classification isn't really an exact science, we're all just guessing anyway.
 
Ahh ok. That helps.

I guess seadragons just seem more "upright" than pipefish to me. It's been a few years since I've seen them in person though.

Thanks, Ann and David, for clearing that up.
 
In oz, the price of a ribboned pipefish, was a few hundred dollars, when the new classification as a dragon came out, it shot overnight to 3,500, each.

That stumps me Ann, I always believed they did a curl not wrap with their tail, excellent shot, no doubts now.
 
In oz, the price of a ribboned pipefish, was a few hundred dollars, when the new classification as a dragon came out, it shot overnight to 3,500, each.
 
In oz, the price of a ribboned pipefish, was a few hundred dollars, when the new classification as a dragon came out, it shot overnight to 3,500, each.

That stumps me Ann, I always believed they did a curl not wrap with their tail, excellent shot, no doubts now.
 
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