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This is "Dawn", the World's oldest recorded seahorse (living in the wild). She’s a White’s Seahorse (Hippocampus whitei) and lived in Nelson Bay, until at least 24th Sept 2021 (see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/226843797)
She is part of the Seahorse study by Dave Harasti. The three red tags on her port side, are used to identify and track individual seahorses. She was first tagged on 3rd August 2014.
Seen here on 30th March 2020 enjoying the balcony view from her new "seahorse hotel", recently provided as part of new study to see if artificial structures can provide suitable holdfasts for the seahorses, after the rapid loss of the cauliflower soft coral (Dendronephthya australis) habitats.