Palaemon elegans / seahorse food

[Gabriel BRAZIL]

Hello

Here in Brazil , unfortunately, we don't have such a variety of food types for our seahorses.

So firstly i was using brine shrimp enriched with phytoplankton (nannochloropsis oculata) , which i'm culturing here. But i know that even if it's being enriched, it's not a good food for my seahorses (H. reidi).

Than, i started puting in my reef about 20 Palaemon elegans every month. The Seahorses just love them, and keep all day long hunting them. It's incredible how can they suck these shrimps with their tiny mouthes! These are little shrimps.

I'd like to know if someone else here have experience on feeding seahorses with this kind of shrimps. ???

Sorry for my english, it has been a long time since i stopped practicing it.

 

[francinemarie]

hello, i just wanted to say that your seahorse is stunning!

 

[Gabriel BRAZIL]

Hehe.. Thanks FrancineMarie :rollface:

This is a black female H.reidi.

Here some other pictures from my seahorses

This is a male. Brown one.

This is the other female preparing to eat the shrimp. Yellow one

The other male in the middle of my corals.

This one is a picture that i like very much..

Thanks

 

[francinemarie]

aw wow all of your seahorses are beautiful! i like the 1 where your female is about to eat the shrimp .

 

[David123]

All palamons are teriffic food for seahorses.

Can you get some amphipods, these for a large percentage of the horses natural prey.

 

[Gabriel BRAZIL]

Hello David

I have a refugium connected to the system, but i think that it just produces a small number of amphipods per month.

Here at the aquarium stores is very hard to find another kind of live food instead of brine shrimps...

Every month a store from Amazonas send me about 20 ghost shrimps (Palaemon), because here in Sao Paulo i don't find them for sale. I wish we had all kinds of live food as you do at the USA, such as mysis, amphipods, rotifers, etc...

One day i hope we get there hehehe