Sculpting Pygmy Seahorse | Hippocampus bargibanti | Polymer Clay @LifeofClay

Hi everyone! I sculpted this #pygmyseahorse #seahorsesculpture out of #cosclayusa polymer clay Please enjoy the video process and hope that you may find it entertaining and useful. If you want to see more of my sculpting videos in the future, please consider subscribing and turn that notification bell icon so YouTube may notify you guys. Direct link of my channel is here: @LifeofClay Your support will be highly appreciated, Thank you so much! RELATED VIDEOS: Weedy Seadragon Blue dragon Sea Slug Flowerhorn cichlid MATERIALS: • Cosclay Grey (medium firm) • Stainless steel wires • Aluminum foil • Cyanoacrylate glue • 2 parts epoxy • 2 parts Resin PAINTS: • White gesso • Titanium white (Folkart) • Alizarin crimson (Folkart) • Bright red (Monte marte) • Black (Folkart) SEALER: • Matte Water based Varnish (Decoart) And lastly – “LOVE” My Other SOCIAL MEDIA where you can follow me and my artworks: YouTube - Pinterest - Instagram - Facebook page - Reddit - Imgur - Twitter – FACTS: Hippocampus bargibanti, of the family Syngnathidae is found in the central Indo-Pacific area and is one of the smallest seahorse species in the world, usually less than 2 centimetres in size. It lives exclusively on fan corals called Gorgonians; clinging on it using their long prehensile tail. It has a short snout and irregular bulbous tubercles on the body that matches the colour and shape of the polyps of its host species of gorgonian coral, while its body matches the gorgonian stem. It has a rounded spine above each eye and on each cheek. Two colour morphs are recorded for this species, one is pale grey or purple with pink or red tubercles, the second is yellow with orange tubercles. They are so well camouflaged that this pygmy seahorse was only discovered after a host gorgonian was collected and observed by marine biologist George Bargibant in 1969. The next year they were officially named by Whitley as “Bargibant’s pygmy seahorse.“ Adults are usually found in pairs or clusters of pairs, As with other seahorses, the male carries the young. The female lays her eggs in a brood pouch in his trunk region. Then he fertilized and incubated them until birth then he expelled a brood of 34 live young called fry which look like miniature adults and are independent from birth, and receive no further parental care. Pygmy seahorses presumably feed on small crustaceans and zooplanktons and they can live to be 1 year on average.