My Newest Reidis

[rayjay]

Well I've boosted my herd now to 28.
I have 5 orange/red and 1 lemon yellow reidi in my newest tank.

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They're pretty small so it'll be a long time before they produce any fry for me.

 

[edandsandy]

Congrats on your new babies, they are beautiful!

 

[The Reef Expert]

awwww! cute. wheredjya get'em?

 

[rayjay]

Got them from a store that brought them in from Aquamarines International

 

[floridazooguy]

They look nice what size did you order and what size are they?

 

[rayjay]

The store was unable to order by size and these are only very small.
Tails straight, from tip of tail to top of head about 2 3/4" to 3 1/4".
They are VERY expensive here in Canada even at that small size so I would imagine the medium and large would be a heck of a lot more so.
Asking price in Canada for reds is $189 to $199 depending on where you buy.
For orange, between $139 and $159

 

[floridazooguy]

Wow the do look very nice, I guess your store ordered alot dont Aquamarines International only sell in bulk?

 

[rayjay]

I would guess so, but this store when they bring in seahorses, they bring in a lot anyway.
When he brings in ones from Seahorse Sanctuary, I have been there afterwards and there would be at least 100 and not knowing how many already were sold.
I suspect this order was for about 100 also.

 

[Mo2]

Beautiful! Are they eating frozen?

 

[rayjay]

Sure are. I don't buy any seahorse that doesn't eat frozen.
The only ones I have that don't eat frozen are the ones I raise, at least, until I get them trained to frozen.

 

[Allmost]

Sure are. I don't buy any seahorse that doesn't eat frozen.
The only ones I have that don't eat frozen are the ones I raise, at least, until I get them trained to frozen.

what do you feed them ? do you enrich the frozen food in anything ?
they look really nice and cute lol

 

[rayjay]

I feed them frozen brine and frozen mysis three times a day but one day a week I feed them gut loaded live brine shrimp.
I gut load them with 3 different products, Algamac 3050, Algamac ProteinPlus, and Dan Underwoods own blend from seahorsesource.com.

 

[reefstew]

Really good color, I hope they stay that way.

 

[Peka]

They are beautiful Ray.. congrats.....

 

[Allmost]

I feed them frozen brine and frozen mysis three times a day but one day a week I feed them gut loaded live brine shrimp.
I gut load them with 3 different products, Algamac 3050, Algamac ProteinPlus, and Dan Underwoods own blend from seahorsesource.com.

wow nice, 3 times a day, I gotta start doing that too.

another question, sorry but do they accept the live brine ? do you let the brine grow full size first ? my reidi's just ignore the newly hatched ones :S

 

[rayjay]

Yes, I grow them out to adult, and they have no problem in eating them. In fact, they go a little crazy compared to eating frozen foods.
Larger seahorses have no interest in prey as small as newborn. Save those for the fry.

 

[Allmost]

Yes, I grow them out to adult, and they have no problem in eating them. In fact, they go a little crazy compared to eating frozen foods.
Larger seahorses have no interest in prey as small as newborn. Save those for the fry.

Excellent thank you