jason7504 Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 here are my 2 seahorses. they are captive bred and eating like pigs. they eat about 1 cube of mysis a day and when they see the turkey baster they beg for the food. they rock! (rock2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwcoralfarm Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Awesome man, those guys are badass. I always wanted a seahorse tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cee Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 I have 3 black tank raised and they are doing great! where did you get yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 I have 3 black tank raised and they are doing great! where did you get yours? mine are doing good too! i wish i could get more but so far it's just gonna be the 2. I got mine from Seahorse Corral. what species are yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cee Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 they are the black Hippocampus erectus. They are so much fun! Mine are also pigging out on the mysis. I looked up seahorse corral, pretty cool site. Have you ever owned any seahorses before? I put a couple harlequin shrimp in with mine cause the tank was a little boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cee Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 here are 2 of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 they are the black Hippocampus erectus. They are so much fun! Mine are also pigging out on the mysis. I looked up seahorse corral' date=' pretty cool site. Have you ever owned any seahorses before? I put a couple harlequin shrimp in with mine cause the tank was a little boring.[/quote'] mine are also H.erectus. yeah they are alot of fun yeah i have.i had a pair 5 years ago. i have a mandrian in with mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 here are 2 of them! nice horses..got a FTS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cee Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 what's FTS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowman Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Full tank shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cee Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 I also added some chaeto and they love it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 nice horses cee..i also have chaeto but mine seem to love the orange fake plant i put in there. but they also occasionally hang around the red grape. another close up of one horse and there tankmate: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cee Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 great pics!!! I really want a yellow or orange one now! how big are they? pretty mandarin too:) I had a mandarin and it got a weird hole by its mouth and didnt make it. I have a target mandarin thats doing great though. Do your seahorses eat out of a dish? mine do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Glad your enjoying them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted February 10, 2010 Author Share Posted February 10, 2010 great pics!!! I really want a yellow or orange one now! how big are they? pretty mandarin too:) I had a mandarin and it got a weird hole by its mouth and didnt make it. I have a target mandarin thats doing great though. Do your seahorses eat out of a dish? mine do. thanks they are around 3" or so. yeah thanks i'm trying to raise pods to help the mandrians survival. no i target feed mine with my turkey baster. that way i know that each one is getting food and there isn't any that spills or falls out like in a dish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miniwhinny Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Oh they are awesome I've always wanted a seahorse tank. That's great to hear that they are eating so well. Very cool (clap) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnewhouse Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Nice horses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 that way i know that each one is getting food and there isn't any that spills or falls out like in a dish. If the food does fall out of the dish, they will still eat it. They are not that picky. Infact if they eat to fast and some of there poo looks like a shrimp, they will eat that too. If you split up there feedings until small multiple feedings a day, they will grow faster and ultimately be healthier. Those horses are still very small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 If the food does fall out of the dish, they will still eat it. They are not that picky. Infact if they eat to fast and some of there poo looks like a shrimp, they will eat that too. If you split up there feedings until small multiple feedings a day, they will grow faster and ultimately be healthier. Those horses are still very small. I just like feeding with the baster cuz i can watch them eat which is fun and i know for sure how much there eating. I usually split up the cube of mysis into 2 feedings daily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 What brand of food are you feeding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 What brand of food are you feeding? I feed hikari and PE mysis with some garlic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 If they'll eat the PE I would ditch the hikari. The read the protein content ont he packages, you'll see why. Are you using garlic for an appetite stimulant? IME it doesn't really work. Seahorses have no olfactory senses. O.K. they do have something resembling one, but it is theorized to be inactive or to be used to recognize a mate. They can't smell food. IMO I think this leads to the hard time training to frozen for WC seahroses, they don't smell it but there senses are activated by the movement, which is why you blow the food around the tank with a turkey baster. Some people believe that garlic acts as an immune system booster, but if this is your intent I woudl switch to feeding artemia beta glucan. JMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason7504 Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 If they'll eat the PE I would ditch the hikari. The read the protein content ont he packages, you'll see why. Are you using garlic for an appetite stimulant? IME it doesn't really work. Seahorses have no olfactory senses. O.K. they do have something resembling one, but it is theorized to be inactive or to be used to recognize a mate. They can't smell food. IMO I think this leads to the hard time training to frozen for WC seahroses, they don't smell it but there senses are activated by the movement, which is why you blow the food around the tank with a turkey baster. Some people believe that garlic acts as an immune system booster, but if this is your intent I woudl switch to feeding artemia beta glucan. JMO yeah i know the PE has a high protein content but I kind of like to mix it up for them. yeah i'm just doing it for the immune system booster and it has vitamin C. but im also getting some selcon to add some omega 3's and other vitamins to there food Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Unless your feeding the enrichment to live food and then feeding to the seahorses I think you are wasting your time IME. Most of the enrichment just comes off in the water, very little actually sticks to the food, and then makes it through into the seahorses digestive system. It does add a nice little cloud they exhale through there gills after they snick something though . . . If you want to feed them enrichments I think vitamin C is good but beta glucan is going to be your best bet. You can find the powder capsuls at most health food stores. Just feed the capsul to a bag full of brine shrimp, wait a half hour or so and then feed that live brine to your seahorses. I wouldn't feed live to often, maybe once a week or so. If you feed to much live food they start looking at the frozen food like, "Where's the live food, I'm not eating this." Then again some seahorses are actually scared of live brine, but yours being captive bred should not be, I ran into this more when working with WC reidi and comes. I only know all of this because I tried for quite some time to figure out the enrichment thing. In the end I found I could keep very healthy seahroses longterm (5 years +) without feeding enrichments and by only ever feeding fresh water foods that contained little of the HUFA's. Oh, since they are eating the PE, I would just feed the hikari to your reef, the seahorses need all the protein they can get, especially at there size, so a snicked hikari is a waste for them. Sorry I'm so opinionated. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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