The Sea Dragon’s Supper
Sea Dragon
Unlike seahorses (which are related), these foot-and-a-half-long delicate fish swim parallel, not perpendicular, to the surface and don’t use their tails to grab onto things.
WHAT THEY EAT Live mysis — shrimp around the length of a human fingernail; 150 in a day, split into two feedings. “It’s like their chocolate,” says senior aquarist Erika Moss. “They will eat other things, too, but it has to look like a shrimp for them to want to eat it.”
The Shedd cultures its own mysis (above, on the right side of the plate), infusing the crustaceans with vitamins and algae, which gives them a
