Live Seahorse Cam!
- Thread starter JennM
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Sorry kids.....lights out at 10, horses need their beauty sleep and so do I
You might want to rethink the office tank for horses, unless you work 7 days....they need to be fed EVERY day...some people fast them one day per week but I don't, I want them in top breeding condition. I also feed both frozen and live foods, so that's a consideration too.
Doable, but much higher maintenance than a regular reef.
Jenn
You might want to rethink the office tank for horses, unless you work 7 days....they need to be fed EVERY day...some people fast them one day per week but I don't, I want them in top breeding condition. I also feed both frozen and live foods, so that's a consideration too.
Doable, but much higher maintenance than a regular reef.
Jenn
ditto, highly maintenance intensive for caring seahorses. If you are used to leaving the reef tanks alone for 2-3 days, you certainly should forget about the seahorse tanks.
JennM, Nice setup! Yes, your web-cam is working!
just a question, it seems that the tank current is a bit high. I never observe my SH bending up and down so much when I had them, even at feeding. When mine chases food, it would still maintain a head-up position. Looking at your caulerpa and SH movement, you may want to tone down the current a bit. JMO
Always wanted to go back & start another SH tank. Low profile show tank 6' long with fully grown sea grass to mimic natural conditions as much as possible. Let pods full grown and sprinkle a couple hundred of hawaiian feader shrimps before introducing the SH.......AAHHHHH Let's go back to square one & figure out how much store credit I can get from selling most of livestock back!
JennM, Nice setup! Yes, your web-cam is working!
just a question, it seems that the tank current is a bit high. I never observe my SH bending up and down so much when I had them, even at feeding. When mine chases food, it would still maintain a head-up position. Looking at your caulerpa and SH movement, you may want to tone down the current a bit. JMO
Always wanted to go back & start another SH tank. Low profile show tank 6' long with fully grown sea grass to mimic natural conditions as much as possible. Let pods full grown and sprinkle a couple hundred of hawaiian feader shrimps before introducing the SH.......AAHHHHH Let's go back to square one & figure out how much store credit I can get from selling most of livestock back!
Jennm,
You have beautiful seahorses. I was thinking about keeping seahorses soon, I have an empty 20 gal tank with a cpr and some caulapera growing in it. Just upgraded and moved my reef to a 75 gal and didn't know what the heck to do with that tank till now. Anyways, what kind of foods do you feed your seahorses and where did you get yours. The LFS around here doesn't sell them and I don't know how well they do MO. Also, how much lighting is on your tank? Do you have a website with info? I know too many questions...
TIA
Erica
You have beautiful seahorses. I was thinking about keeping seahorses soon, I have an empty 20 gal tank with a cpr and some caulapera growing in it. Just upgraded and moved my reef to a 75 gal and didn't know what the heck to do with that tank till now. Anyways, what kind of foods do you feed your seahorses and where did you get yours. The LFS around here doesn't sell them and I don't know how well they do MO. Also, how much lighting is on your tank? Do you have a website with info? I know too many questions...
TIA
Erica
I feed: Frozen Mysis by Piscine Energetics, I feed live ghost shrimp (fw), grass shrimp (sw). And sometimes I feed Hawaiian red shrimp.
The mysis should be available at your LFS or if you want to order 19 lbs minimum, go to www.mysis.com and get it that way. Ghost shrimp come from Petsmart..they matched a local competitor's price at $0.16 each. Grass shrimp we collected in FL and I keep them in a bucket with sponge filter and I feed them spirulina.
Once in a while I throw in a baby guppy, but not too often. Only one horse seems to like them, and they aren't particularly nutritious.
The babies I'm feeding live brine nauplii and zooplankton. Today is day 6 and of the 5 viable young I began with, I've got 2 that are still doing well and 2 on the decline. One gulped air depsite my best efforts to keep them away from the top, and one just died.
Many of this batch were malformed, as they were born 2 days early.
Male is pregnant again and due next Sunday...or Friday or Saturday....I'm hoping for Sunday, as then the babies will have the best chance of being developed this time.
Jenn
The mysis should be available at your LFS or if you want to order 19 lbs minimum, go to www.mysis.com and get it that way. Ghost shrimp come from Petsmart..they matched a local competitor's price at $0.16 each. Grass shrimp we collected in FL and I keep them in a bucket with sponge filter and I feed them spirulina.
Once in a while I throw in a baby guppy, but not too often. Only one horse seems to like them, and they aren't particularly nutritious.
The babies I'm feeding live brine nauplii and zooplankton. Today is day 6 and of the 5 viable young I began with, I've got 2 that are still doing well and 2 on the decline. One gulped air depsite my best efforts to keep them away from the top, and one just died.
Many of this batch were malformed, as they were born 2 days early.
Male is pregnant again and due next Sunday...or Friday or Saturday....I'm hoping for Sunday, as then the babies will have the best chance of being developed this time.
Jenn
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