FelipeBastos
In Memoriam
My H. reidi had babes last friday morning. I did not catch the release, and had to fish the few survivors out of the sump. I keep a sponge there for pod reproduction and that saved 9 baby seahorses.
The same day, Friday, 3 died. Ever since then, the 6 left are still alive and eating.
Having only 6 to care for is a great advantage as I am bale to ensure eachone is eating properly. At first, I kept them all in a 600 mL tupperware container, on a shelf above a 12G nano I had setup weeks earlier. This set up allowed me for constant watr changes and multiple daily feedings of newly hatched BBS.
Now I have moved them into a 5.5 G tank, only about 1/3 of the way full. Besides the babies, there is nothing in there besides a couple species f caulerpa, 2 tiny rocks holding the plants, a fake plnt and a small screen they can use to hitch onto. One of them was in fact hitched this morning, which is a good sign.
I have started hatching BBS and refrigerating them to slow down growth and ensure they are small enough for thebabies to eat them still.
I decided to wait until now to write because the first barrier to crack when attempting to raise seahorses is 5 days. I am less than 6 hours away from that goal ( estimated time of birth), so I wanted to get this here. I will contnue updting as things move along.
Oh, one more thing. The dad is pregant again.
Ciao,
Felipe
The same day, Friday, 3 died. Ever since then, the 6 left are still alive and eating.
Having only 6 to care for is a great advantage as I am bale to ensure eachone is eating properly. At first, I kept them all in a 600 mL tupperware container, on a shelf above a 12G nano I had setup weeks earlier. This set up allowed me for constant watr changes and multiple daily feedings of newly hatched BBS.
Now I have moved them into a 5.5 G tank, only about 1/3 of the way full. Besides the babies, there is nothing in there besides a couple species f caulerpa, 2 tiny rocks holding the plants, a fake plnt and a small screen they can use to hitch onto. One of them was in fact hitched this morning, which is a good sign.
I have started hatching BBS and refrigerating them to slow down growth and ensure they are small enough for thebabies to eat them still.
I decided to wait until now to write because the first barrier to crack when attempting to raise seahorses is 5 days. I am less than 6 hours away from that goal ( estimated time of birth), so I wanted to get this here. I will contnue updting as things move along.
Oh, one more thing. The dad is pregant again.
Ciao,
Felipe
Maybe send the profits to meeeeeeeeeeee? 
