Dwarf seahorses, against the internet's advice, carry Leafy Street's pause
Alex's eight-week-old attempt to keep and breed the notoriously difficult fish has passed 1.9 million views, with a two-year backyard pond film not far behind in daily pull.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
I Bought Seahorses so you don't have to (seriously don't)
No new uploads. Alex, the creature-keeper behind Leafy Street, took the week off, and the library did the talking.
The video doing the most of it is "I Bought Seahorses so you don't have to (seriously don't)," posted eight weeks ago. The premise is in the title: an attempt to keep and breed dwarf seahorses, a famously fussy animal, and the description admits that for once the internet's warnings were right. After some setbacks it ends in a small nano tank, timed, Alex jokes, for "boypreg summer," a nod to the fact that male seahorses are the ones who carry the young. It is close to two million views.
Behind it sit two older ecosystem builds. "Expanding My Tiny Beach Ecosystem (I regret it)" is from earlier in the year, a tank that collapsed before, as the description puts it, the plants and animals found a way. And "I Built a Pond, and Let it Evolve For 2 Years," nearly a year old and past eight million views, still draws a steady audience to its frogs, birds, insects and one mostly hairless ape.
With nothing new to watch, the channel's daily views are running a bit below their usual level. Several neighbors in the pets and animals group are in the same gentle dip, Jumping With Ivy among them, while The Reptile Zoo and Brighter Paws are having busier days than usual. Among the channels nearest its size, Leafy Street ranks third by subscribers, at 1.67 million.
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The videos drawing views on Leafy Street right now
- Channel
- Leafy Street
- Subscribers
- 1,670,000
- Videos published this week
- 0
The numbers
Here is how Leafy Street's channel and its busiest videos stand this week.
💡 Test your knowledge
Seahorses belong to the same fish family as which of these animals?
Seahorses, pipefish and seadragons all belong to the family Syngnathidae.




