Seahorse babies came EARLY!!

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I wasn't expecting this brood for another week! Well, diesel got busy on the DL and must have gotten the hookup as soon as I added the new girls! I woke up late and saw ONE in my dt.. Checked my skimmer, found 7 more in the cup! So spent the ENTIRE morning tearing apart my sump, and picking thru a gigantic pile of Chaeto to end up with maybe 90 babies.. Only left with 45 or so survivors .. But I'm sure my firefish pair and Mandy ate WELL this morning cause all are fat now!
Here's the batch this time around.. Enjoy :)
[video=youtube_share;oWQrRtrcDtY]http://youtu.be/oWQrRtrcDtY[/video]

If you're in a hurry.. the good stuff is toward the end :) sorry so long lol
 
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no.. my friend Momo is coming to get them for me :) he still is raising 5 from my previous batch :) I am not set up to culture phyto.. and pods.. and bbs.. :wacko:
 
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Jhuneke said:
no.. my friend Momo is coming to get them for me :) he still is raising 5 from my previous batch :) I am not set up to culture phyto.. and pods.. and bbs.. :wacko:
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Those are really cool! Update when they are bigger please! Someone was selling a seahorse on this forum and i wanted to get it for my fuge. I thought they had to be in colder water?
 
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usually yes.. i saw it too.. really tempted but I am hesitant to mix species due to disease etc that can effect one but not the other. Best to keep at 73-74* to avoid infections :)
 
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Sadly.. Id hafta say probably :/
Not that they can't survive.. But they really need the lower temps to maintain health .


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Thanks :) YES! Very difficult .. That's why I'm leaving it to the more experienced keeper lol I know my limits


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[video=youtube_share;-Yp5oNxWC4c]http://youtu.be/-Yp5oNxWC4c[/video]

Here are the babies a day after I got them :)
 
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Holy crap it's still so small! What are you feeding them? How much and how often? I bet you have a crazy water change schedule. Hahaha
 
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Shhh.... [MENTION=8995]Scout[/MENTION]! lol i'm trying to keep him motivated and don't wanna hafta hide the kitchen knives on him.. :p Mo.. you got this ! Doing so awesome.. I LOVE the comparison pic.. I wanna come over for a play date! lol
 
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Really Jesse? I wanna seeee!!! :) didn't know you had ponies! What kind?


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AMAZING!!! I love seahorses. Had em once. They remind me of my Granny, who used to keep them. She was old school and dived for them.


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Scout said:
Holy crap it's still so small! What are you feeding them? How much and how often? I bet you have a crazy water change schedule. Hahaha
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I feed them live copepods. Specifically euterpina acutifrons and Parvocalanus crassirostris. Both cultures are fed Tetraselmis and T ISO. Culturing the copepods and in enough numbers is the hard part. I sleeve them from their cultures and eye ball it. I currently am feeding out about twice a day, 3 times if I can. I eye ball it ... you just kind of see if theres enough food for everyone or not, and if they have full bellies. WC is every 48 hours. Not too bad actually.
 
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