Orange Florida Sea Horses

[Gandolfe]

I just got a male and female Orange Florida Sea Horse pair for $64 total. The female is already eating live brine and hopefully my other pair of ponies will teach them to eat frozen like they are after 8 weeks. They are all wild caught and in a 40 gallon breeder tank full of macro algae. Hopefully I can get them to eat frozen soon and breed. I know I can hatch and keep alive Brine shrimp Napoli's for at least 10 days

 

[RG Rude]

Sounds pretty cool. Pics??

 

[Gandolfe]

pics

pics

here are some pics

 

[RG Rude]

They look great!!

 

[Gandolfe]

there is a place near me called Seahorsecorral that sells them for $120 a piece or a pair for $230, they are captive bred but geesh... expensive. I have 5 altogether now, a yellow, 2 black and 2 orange. the yellow is a female and the 2 blacks are males but one has bubble disease problems, The big one go figure

 

[Gandolfe]

Orange Sea Horse Pair

Orange Sea Horse Pair

Here's a better pic of them both together on a gorgorian I've had for almost 2 years.

 

[vlangel]

They are beautiful. Are you nervous at all about putting the wild caught ponies in with your captive bred?

 

[Gandolfe]

all my sea horses are wild caught, The website I mentioned sells Captive Bred

 

[Bhuamani32]

Looks great. I would never attempt at having wild caught seahorses myself

 

[Gandolfe]

these are my second attempt. First attempt was with mature seahorses, not adolescents like these. Didn't do so good first time, couldn't get them to even try frozen...the first pair I have are eating frozen and live, the second pair I just got are still only eating live. Just getting to be a pain to find live brine every couple of days.

 

[Mo2]

these are my second attempt. First attempt was with mature seahorses, not adolescents like these. Didn't do so good first time, couldn't get them to even try frozen...the first pair I have are eating frozen and live, the second pair I just got are still only eating live. Just getting to be a pain to find live brine every couple of days.

You could raise your own culture? I mean I'll probably be better to get them transferred over to Frozen than keep them on live brine, but before that happens, you can keep them alive with spurlina.

 

[Gandolfe]

I have tried to raise my own bine, it costs more than if I just go to an LFS and buy 3 or 4 portions at a time. The longest I had them survive was 10 days and it take 28 to reach maturity. It's really hard to maintain a Brine shrimp culture( a colony that keeps producing babies and growing to adult hood) unless you have specialized tanks which cost big bucks

 

[Gandolfe]

Here's a pic of all 4 Sea Horses together.

Here's a pic of all 4 Sea Horses together.

This is both my new Orange Sea horses and my Yellowish Female and Black Male. They are all Florida Gulf caught Lined Sea-Horses

 

[Mo2]

Where did you get the orange guys?

 

[Gandolfe]

A LFS by my house gets them in. They are a wholesale place and get Sea horses regularly. Also if you google Seahorsecorral, you can get them there too

 

[vlangel]

all my sea horses are wild caught, The website I mentioned sells Captive Bred

Hey, best of luck with them. Hopefully the 2 originals will teach the new guys how yummy frozen mysis can be. I've heard that by adding garlic sometimes entices them. Or mix a little minced mysis in with live brine, ( in a turkey baster) and give them the mixture when they are really hungry. If they snick some of the mysis gradually decrease the brine and increase the mysis.

 

[Gandolfe]

I just saw one of the Ghost shrimp in my sea horses tank full of eggs too. Deciding if I should start a separate small tank just to raise the shrimp, but I'm running out of room for tanks in my house...LOL

 

[vlangel]

I just saw one of the Ghost shrimp in my sea horses tank full of eggs too. Deciding if I should start a separate small tank just to raise the shrimp, but I'm running out of room for tanks in my house...LOL

Ha ha, I guess you qualify as an addicted marine aquarist!

 

[Gandolfe]

well let's see.... I have a 125 gallon mixed reef softie tank, a 40 gallon sump for that, a 40 gallon macro/sea horse tank, a 10 gallon Mangrove tank, a 45 gallon tall that I mix my water in, a 40 gallon breeder tank that's empty( came with the 180 ) and a 180 gallon acrylic tank(not set up yet) and also a 65 gallon planted freshwater tank....also a lovebird cage, and 4-4' bird cages( Citron Cockatoo, Military Macaw, and 2 Timneh African Greys) all in a 30' x 16' section of my Triple wide. Also have 6 ankle biter dogs and 2 cats

 

[vlangel]

well let's see.... I have a 125 gallon mixed reef softie tank, a 40 gallon sump for that, a 40 gallon macro/sea horse tank, a 10 gallon Mangrove tank, a 45 gallon tall that I mix my water in, a 40 gallon breeder tank that's empty( came with the 180 ) and a 180 gallon acrylic tank(not set up yet) and also a 65 gallon planted freshwater tank....also a lovebird cage, and 4-4' bird cages( Citron Cockatoo, Military Macaw, and 2 Timneh African Greys) all in a 30' x 16' section of my Triple wide. Also have 6 ankle biter dogs and 2 cats

LOL, you sound like what my husband worried would happen to us when I began working at a pet store years ago. I had to promise that our house would not turn into Dr Dolittles! I did have a 125g FOWLR with a 70g sump, a 90g reef and 15g sump and a 20L nursery for tomato clowns at one point. Had to downsize drastically to care for my bed ridden mom in law so now only have a 30gXH seahorse fuge connected to the same sump as my 36g bowfront LPS dominant tank. O yes, and we have one ankle biter shin tzu too. We have a sprawling ranch so I've done pretty good resisting filling it up with fun creatures!