Feeding Seahorses

[richardy1990]

How do you feed Seahorses? I just put the unfrozened food in the water, but by the time it eats like 3 brine shrimp, the rest is all gone. What should I do??

 

[sloshes]

I turn off all flow for about 2 hours.

 

[richardy1990]

how many times do u feed it a day?

 

[ReefNutPA]

First of all.... you shouldn't be feeding frozen brine shrimp. Your seahorses will slowly starve. You need to get frozen mysis shrimp, preferably PE Mysis or Hikari mysis. Thaw the food out (one cube per pair of seahorses) and feed them by putting the food in a feeding dish. The mysis will stay in the dish instead of blowing around the tank. This allows you to see how much each seahorse is eating. On average, a pair of seahorses can eat one cube of frozen mysis twice a day.

Hope that helps.
Tom

 

[sloshesv]

My pair only eat a half of cube of Hikari at a sitting.

 

[richardy1990]

where can I buy a feeding dish, and what does it look like?