My 25 gallon sea horse tank.

[ReefNutPA]

ACK! Jordan! You didn't get mysis BEFORE you got the seahorses? You need to find some NOW or order it online for overnight delivery. No wonder the one isn't eating

BTW, from the pic you posted it doesn't appear to me that the male is pregnant. I could be mistaken though, keep us posted.

Tom

 

[Flipturn88]

Yes! They NEED mysis. My horses love Hikari's brand--even more so than PE, probably because it's smaller and more compact (thus easier to snick).

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6953207#post6953207 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Swanwillow
really, I thought that they were hard to get back on after they have been on live food for well-they ^ were talking about weeks... not just a couple times/week

You may be right about prolonged periods on a certain diet--I only ever feed live foods for a couple days on occasion.

 

[Jordan55]

Dang! Well I stopped by a LFS on the way home picking up Mysis and the guy said this was the closest thing to mysis they had!

I will stop by an LFS tonight and pick some up!

I feel like a NoOb.

 

[ReefNutPA]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6958424#post6958424 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jordan55

I feel like a NoOb.

Trust me.... we've all done things and afterwards thought to ourselves "What was I thinking!?!?!?!"

Tom

 

[Jordan55]

Hey everyone. I picked up some frozen mysis tonight at the LFS. Before I left to go out, I fed the female some plankton, she ate but the male did not.

Got home, thawed the mysis, squirted some by them (they were actually together for the first time also). Well..... HE ATE! MUAHAH! I was so happy. Female ate some also.

Finally got them both eating. I just want to thank you all for the helpful hints and advice. I was planning on getting some mysis this weekend, but when you guys made it obvious, I had to get some tonight. It may have been too late by the weekend anyways.

I will continue to update this thread atleast once a week, so keep following along for thr ride if you want to. You can post any questions anyone has and post pictures also!

Thanks everyone!

 

[Flipturn88]

Glad to hear it, Jordo. :thumbsup: Unfortunately, some of us speak from experience on such issues.

 

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Congrats Jordo!!!! I'm so happy they are both eating.

 

[parhead]

looking good Jordan.....I cant wait to see it in person!

 

[Jordan55]

Today is the one week mark for the horses. I must say, both are doing perfectly well and eating frozen mysis.

I did a gallon water change on the tank today and re did the rock work. The horses were in the back on the tank 50% of the time, and it got to be hard when it came to feeding time. Not to mention we had no viewing pleasure.

I am going to start introducing the feeding station this week, I just am making sure both horses are eating the food and are used to it before I do the station.

I will try and post a picture tonight or tomorrow, depending on how well the tank clears up.

Thanks everyone!

 

[cj_basser]

Sounds like the tnak is coming along nicely. What are you going to use for a feeding station?

 

[AEALOVESHERGIRLS]

Hey Jordo, any new pics of your rockwork? Or of the horses?

 

[ade]

I was reading that you said that plankton was not good for seahorses.Why?. I have SF Bay Brand.My SH eat it as well as any food I put in there.

 

[Jordan55]

Well today is day 8 for the horses and like 58 for the tank.

Horses are both doing excellent and so is the tank.

Here are a few pictures of them and the new look. I like it a lot because it has depth and more angles to veiw. Also gives the horses more free space and more places for new macro algae. Not to mention, plenty of places for the goby to make his new home, which I hope he will be in the LFS within the next week or so.

Enjoy.

 

[Swanwillow]

ok, since noone answered the why no plankton question, here ya go, I'm using an example I thought of yesterday.

plankton is great food for fish that can eat it. Seahorses have NO stomache; therefore, they need to beable to take out as much as they can from the food, as fast as they can. Plankton is not made up of things that are fatty;not as nutritious as mysis. Off the top of my head, I don't know whats in 'plankton' do you? Copepods are good, but if its chopped krill.. Ijust dunno whats in it exactly.

now, Brine shrimp is HORRIBLE. When I think of plankton, I think of BS... and The way I defend the no-using BS is this way:
Mammal babies drink milk. They grow on milk, then transfer over to solid foods. A mammal cannot go back to living on milk alone... not even with vitamin supplementation. NOW, that same mammal CAN live off of steak (or grass, i suppose) with vitamin supplementation;ever notice how your dogs eats grass???
milk=brine, steak=mysis.

 

[Jordan55]

So.... anyone like the new tank layout?

 

[Jordan55]

Just from glacing at the ingredients, Ocean Plankton seems to be more healthier than mysis.

 

[Swanwillow]

due to the content? or the stuff printed: whats the package say, ingredient wise? and content wise?

 

[Jordan55]

Okay.

Ocean Plankton contains a lot of ingredients.

Here are the Guaranteed Analysis:

Crude Protein- 12% min.
Crude Fat- 1.5% min
Crude Fiber- 3.5% max
H2O- 79%max

Mysis Shrimp's ingredients is only mysis.

Guaranteed Analysis:

Crude Protein- 3.7% min
Crude Fat- .44% min
Crude Fiber- .3% max
H2O- 92% max


Doesn't the Analysis prove OP to be more nutrious... or am I wrong?

 

[ReefNutPA]

Jordan... which mysis is that? Most keepers use PE Mysis (69% protein) and/or Hikari mysis (10.5%min protein).

Plankton isn't a "standard" seahorse food. I'm not sure what effects it may have long-term if that is their diet.

Tom

 

[Jordan55]

I'm using San Fransico Bay Brand.

Anyone have a picture of what PE or Hikari Mysis looks like (package picture) so I can look for it in the LFS next time.

Thanks