Lets See Your Feeding Stations!

[triggerfreak]

Well i am getting ready to get some pygmy/dwarf horses tomorrow.They are already eating a mix of frozen brine and frozen mysis.but i still want to set up a feeding station for them.So lots see what some of you use for a feeding station or have built.

 

[ReefNutPA]

Please be sure you are getting dwarf seahorses....and not 1 1/2" to 2" juveniles of another species. Dwarfs are only 1" big and cannot eat frozen mysis.

It's been my experience with the 4 years I've been keeping them that any that do begin to eat frozen BABY brine shrimp revert back to eating only live foods suddenly for no apparent reason. Again, doubtful they are dwarfs if they are eating frozen adult brine and mysis. And if they are dwarfs, the supplier is not being honest with you.

Tom

 

[triggerfreak]

They got them in as pygmy seahorses but some of there customers are telling them they are dwarf horses.I am going to look at them tomorrow.I am pretty new to horses so i really cant tell.But i want to see them eat and i might look into hatching some brine myself also.

 

[namxas]

FWIW, you'll never see a pygmy SH in the trade. in fact, i can't recall ever seeing a zot (H. zosterae/dwarf) in a LFS, not that some may carry them. i've seen juvies mis-ID'd as zots a few times myself.

Tom is a good person to heed on this, as he has been successful with zots for quite awhile.

i think a really good idea would be to search out some pix of zots and compare them...they really don't look anything like juvie larger species SH.

 

[triggerfreak]

Well hear is a pic.The best one i could get for now.They are about 1/2 to 3.4 inch big.But i am not hear to get into a debate about them.I just wanted to see what type of feeding stations people use or have built.

 

[ReefNutPA]

Most use some sort of concave item for a feeding dish....such as half a clam shell, etc. Something that can be placed on the substrate, wedged in a rock structure, attached to a rock structure, etc.

Personally, I'm not that creative - I use ceramic cat food bowls they are small, not too deep....and since they have a glazed finish any algae wipes right off without too much scrubbing.

Tom

 

[Elysia]

I would suspect that most people don't use feeding dishes w/ zots. You're feeding them live baby brine, which swim, so what good is a food bowl? (even if they ate frozen baby brine or frozen cyclops/cyclopeeze, it would likely need to be moving about in a gentle current, not sitting in a dish like "regular" seahorses can be trained to eat mysis.)

 

[namxas]

cute little SH...hard to tell the species from that pic, but it COULD be a zot. you might add some better hitches to the tank tho, even if it's a QT.

to add to Elysia's comments, the thing about zots is they are LAZY little suckers that very rarely leave their hitches to eat. instead, they prefer to sit there and snick food items as they swim by.