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A glassy sweeper egg, moments from hatching, is seen through a microscope at Roger Williams University’s Wet Lab in Bristol, Rhode Island, where parent offspring are bred for the New England Aquarium's aquaculture program. The round bubble is an oil droplet, which is a nutritional source similar to an egg yolk.

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A dwarf seahorse, about 1 inch long, holds onto a blade of seagrass at the New England Aquarium’s Animal Care Center in Quincy, Massachusetts. Seahorses, anchored to marine plants, feed on plankton and small crustaceans that float through water.

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Juvenile glassy sweepers swim in a tank at the Animal Care Center.

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Barbara Bailey, curator of husbandry and sustainability, poses on one of the breeding tanks at the Animal Care Center.

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A male weedy seadragon swims in its tank at the Animal Care Center. As with all members of the seahorse family, it is the male that gives birth to young.

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Monika Schmuck feeds glassy sweepers in a special tank at the Animal Care Center.

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Lookdown fish swim in their tank at the New England Aquarium’s Animal Care Center.

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Research associate Allex Gourlay checks on plankton availability for her glassy sweeper fish larvae through a microscope, at the RWU Wet Lab.

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Andy Rhyne, professor of marine biology, poses near colorful bottles of phytoplankton that will be used to feed the glassy sweeper fish they are breeding at RWU's Wet Lab.