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[Gandolfe]

I have had 2 seahorses( unfortunately both female when they were supposed to be a pair). I bought from a LFS ($10 a piece) about 6 1/2weeks ago. I have been feeding them Live brine 3 times a day ( what a pain in the butt) but have been giving them frozen spirilina brine, mini Mysis, and regular Mysis as well. They are both starting to eat the frozen as well as the live. I also bought a male from the same store almost 2 weeks ago( he has a pouch so I'm sure it's a male). I haven't seen him eat the frozen yet but I'm hoping the other two teach him to eat it. They both come running( or should I say swimming), whenever they see the turkey baster hit the water. I'm trying to raise my own brine so I don't have to keep running to the every 2 days for more live brine. I have a nice batch of shrimp hatched right now but it takes 3 weeks to grow them out to adults. I have a 2 gallon grow tank and a 2 1/2 gallon tank for the adults. I have first bites to feed the newly hatched brine right now but I'm gonna add pureed baby food and milk as soon as I go get a dropper today! Hopefully I'll be able to raise some captive bred sea horses in the future.

 

[Gandolfe]

Anyone else had luck getting wild caught Sea horses to eat frozen?

 

[rayjay]

The best food to feed them is frozen mysis. Even if you enrich the live adult brine, it's best to only use that once or twice a week. Without enrichment they get nothing but protein and certainly not the DHA that they can't manufacture for themselves.
I'm unable to grow brine shrimp to adult in 3 weeks. At least not in any meaningful numbers. It happens in low density cultures but high density cultures take a lot longer.
I grow mine in 25g rubbermaid containers.
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/rayjay/brineshrimp.html
As the seahorses reach maturity a lot of seahorse keepers prefer to get them eating the larger, better specimens from PE Mysis.