Peso visits the aquarium from the Gulf of Mexico. He is a hopeless romantic and is in love with everything around him. This little guy has a real passion for life and wants to share his stories with everyone he meets.

Since becoming a S.E.A. Critter, Peso has not stop talking about all of the beauty and romance that is found in the open sea. He tells some of the most romantic stories you will ever hear.

Pick to listen to one of his stories...

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Danger to Sand Dollars:

  • Bottom trawling by fishing boats cause damage to sea floor habitats and accidentally catches and kills tons of marine life every year.

 

Peso:

  • is the currency of Mexico. The symbol used for the peso is "$", basically the same as for the US dollar, and is subdivided into 100 centavos, represented by "¢".
  • The name peso also means weight in Spanish.
  • The Mexican peso is now among the 15 most traded currency units in the world, and is the most traded currency in Latin America.
Sand Dollar

The familiar exoskeleton (test) of a sand dollar—often found cast up on a beach—is white, with an obvious five-pointed shape on the back. But a live sand dollar has a different look. Densely packed, tiny, dark purple spines cover live sand dollars. In their sandy sea floor habitat, sand dollars use their fuzzy spines, aided by tiny hairs (cilia), to ferry food particles along their bodies to a central mouth on their bottom side. In quiet waters, these flattened animals stand on end, partially buried in the sand. When waters are rough, sand dollars hold their ground by lying flat—or burrowing under the sand. On the upper half of the sand dollar’s body, spines also serve as gills.

Sand dollars are usually crowded together over an area—as many as 625 sand dollars can live in one square yard.

Sand dollars usually live six to 10 years and you can age a sand dollar by counting the growth rings on the plates of the exoskeleton.