Baby dwarfs

[nathanemmerich]

One of my seahorses just gave birth to 10-20 seahorses and was wondering if it is possible to train the babies to eat frozen foods?

 

[Samala]

It has been done but the vast majority of dwarfs and their fry will not convert to frozen foods. I think it says something when commercial and professional breeders do not sell their H. zosterae as eating frozen foods. If they cant do it with all their time and resources to commit to the foray, and plenty of experience training larger species of seahorse to frozen, then there is a very slim margin of chance hobbyists can do it.

Certainly try.. frozen rotifers, frozen BBS and frozen cyclopeeze are all ideas. But dont plan on not providing live food, paritcularly for the fry which need large amounts of food to power their tremendous growth rates.

>Sarah

 

[fnicklaus]

Just feed them live food for first 6 weeks,then grate frozen food.

 

[Fishguy13]

Where you located would you like to sell me some

 

[Lacrosseboss18]

They really do best on live BBS

 

[redhotlynn]

why nothing live ?

why nothing live ?

what will it do ?

 

[seas_inside]

What do you mean nothing live, redhotlynn? Dwarves usually only except live BBS. On the other hand, they usually do NOT except frozen.

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

piks please...

 

[charlieborg]

I too have some baby dwarf sea horses. I feed mine DT's phytoplankton. I do have a question though. Will peperment shrimp eat the babies?

 

[redhotlynn]

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I don't have babys yet but I would never put anything in with mine if I had them. I can;t wait to have babys I think mine are still young yet....

 

[seas_inside]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8576920#post8576920 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by charlieborg
I too have some baby dwarf sea horses. I feed mine DT's phytoplankton. I do have a question though. Will peperment shrimp eat the babies?

Peppermint shrimp are not safe with dwarves period.