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I have always found seahorses to be fascinating, ever since I was a little girl. I guess that since I was "horse-crazy" as a child, that seahorses just had to figure in there somewhere.
My mother had freshwater aquariums, and she raised guppies, and also some other tropical fish; I really enjoyed watching all of the fish, and she had explained to me that we could not have any seahorses in there since they had to have salt water.
Back in the fifties, when I was growing up, they sold things like squirrel monkeys and even seahorses were always sold on the inside covers of comic books. My mom let me order some of the seahorses. I think they came with a special mix to put into the water to make it the right salt mix for them to live, and what they sent me was some kind of eggs, which hatched out into the tiniest seahorses ever ! They were so tiny that you almost needed a magnifying glass to actually see them, but they happily lived in the little goldfish bowl and I loved watching them bob around in there.
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