Food Question?
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ann83
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You would have to be culturing live mysis in seperate containers in very large quantities in order to have enough food for seahorses; your seahorses will quickly deplete the mysis population in their own display tank.
Frozen mysis is the easiest food to feed seahorses, however you need to get true captive bred seahorses from somewhere like www.seahorsesource.com to guarantee they will eat frozen foods. Wild caught seahorses may be trained to frozen, but there is always the chance that they will never take to frozen and will always need lots of live foods to sustain them ($$$$).
Frozen mysis is the easiest food to feed seahorses, however you need to get true captive bred seahorses from somewhere like www.seahorsesource.com to guarantee they will eat frozen foods. Wild caught seahorses may be trained to frozen, but there is always the chance that they will never take to frozen and will always need lots of live foods to sustain them ($$$$).
Hesham
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Seahorses are gluttons. Their digestive tracks are inefficient - they need to almost continuously eat to not become malnourished.
They will dramatically reduce populations of amphipods and mysis in the main display. If you would like to augment frozen food feedings, you can try setting up an in-line refugium and create an amphipod farm. The amphipods and other life forms can be propagated without (or with minimal) predation in the refugium. Some amphipods will find their way back into the main tank and provide your seahorses with live food.
Wild caught seahorses are very difficult to keep because they need, for the most part, live food. They will slowly starve to death even in a tank full of live rock.
Captive bred commonly available seahorses (stay away from Pygmy seahorses unless you are willing to feed them newly hatched brine shrimp) should have strong feeding reaction when provided frozen mysis. I will not purchase any seahorse unless I see it eat frozen food.
Here's a couple of good links;
http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/index.html
http://www.seahorse.com/
They will dramatically reduce populations of amphipods and mysis in the main display. If you would like to augment frozen food feedings, you can try setting up an in-line refugium and create an amphipod farm. The amphipods and other life forms can be propagated without (or with minimal) predation in the refugium. Some amphipods will find their way back into the main tank and provide your seahorses with live food.
Wild caught seahorses are very difficult to keep because they need, for the most part, live food. They will slowly starve to death even in a tank full of live rock.
Captive bred commonly available seahorses (stay away from Pygmy seahorses unless you are willing to feed them newly hatched brine shrimp) should have strong feeding reaction when provided frozen mysis. I will not purchase any seahorse unless I see it eat frozen food.
Here's a couple of good links;
http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/index.html
http://www.seahorse.com/
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