live food

[fourts1]

I've always wanted to set up a seahorse tank however my lifestyle makes daily feeding of frozen mysis nearly impossible. Has anyone had any luck with a sustainable source of live food in a refugium.

 

[hawkfish21]

If you can't set aside 5 minutes a day to feed, then maybe the hobby isn't for you.

 

[Lumpus]

Yeah.....you can skip a day or two a week feeding seahorses, bu tunless you have 'pods just crawling up and down your glass they will slowly starve if you don't feed them at least that much. Mine get lean if I don't feed them 2x a day.

 

[Beckmola24]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7097612#post7097612 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lumpus
Mine get lean if I don't feed them 2x a day.

I've noticed that mine are the same way. I haven't had them long but they want to eat at least 2x's per day. If u don't have 5 mins per day to feed then I do agree that maybe the hobby isn't for you. The tank requires weekly or bi weekly water changes and lots of other misc. tasks.

 

[hawkfish21]

Mine only like to eat 1x per day. They don't seem very interested when I try to feed the second time. Strange...

 

[Swanwillow]

I like to feed mine 2x a day, but I'm running short of mysis, and waiting for the child support check gets boring. PLUS I'm having a phytoplankton bloom in my tank, so I'm feeding 1x a day.

but, they are usually more interested in food if i feed 1x a day. they spend the rest hunting.

the amount of time spent daily on a horse tank=at LEAST 20 minutes, plus one day a week spending an hour or two doing various things like scrubbing glass, a water change, good maintnence on the rocks, stuff like that.

 

[fourts1]

Just let me clarify. When I'm home I have the five minutes. But frequently I not home for several days in a row. I have a 300G reef and that's not a problem for the reef. But I don't think it will work with horses.

 

[Swanwillow]

nope- they need it daily

 

[pledosophy]

You would be able to supplement live feeding for the times when you are gone by ordering live salt water feeders and introducing the day you leave. I have kept two horses alive for five days with this regiment.

I order from seawaterexpress.com beacuse they are gaurenteed not to carry any of the parasites that WC feeders can carry.

JME.