Pic.s of my new baby erectus
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Thanks, for the advice Dan, I will not treat again until needed!
I have a few more pics. to share.
The first batch is now 5 weeks old, only 3 left tho!But I have not lost any more of these in a couple weeks.
The second batch is now 3 weeks old, and I still have 15
They are really starting to grow faster, check them out!
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=19487662#post19487662
I have a few more pics. to share.
The first batch is now 5 weeks old, only 3 left tho!But I have not lost any more of these in a couple weeks.
The second batch is now 3 weeks old, and I still have 15
They are really starting to grow faster, check them out!
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=19487662#post19487662
Sorry for not posting lately, I will try to get some new pics. up tonight!
Thanks for the replies!
I like the mantis, I put them in my sump for the 90 gal. They are really neat to watch, they are smart hunters, I like the way they sneak around while hunting they remind me of one of our cats.
My work schedule has changed back and forth, I have been working out of town for 2 days at a time and home for a few hrs. and I leave back out.
I am back on a board that don't work as often so I can start posting again.
The update:
I still have 2 from the 1st batch, now 8 weeks old + or -
They have there own 29 gal. with live rock and sand from TBS. It is a extra tank for more water volume for the 29 gal. my original 4 adults I bought last year are in. I have a pump that pulls water out of my main seahorse tank and pumps it into another 29 gal. tank and I made a 1 inch tube that connects the 2 tanks, It's water per. stay perfect, and ampepods, copepods,and mysid shrimp are every where in there and have been for over a year.
I put the 2 horses in there to make sure they get enough to eat(these are unrelated to all the others), So I am giving them special treatment for a dif. blood line!
I started getting low of larger brine shrimp a couple weeks ago, the horses were eating them faster then I can raise the brine to adult size, so I put the 2 first batch horses in the 29 to give them the best chance to survive and so I could save the rest of the brine shrimp I had left for the others from the 2nd batch.
I ordered 48 tsp of 1/2 grown brine from a place in FL. on Tue. 15th but they were not open on wed to ship them, so they shipped them this Mon. and I didn't recieve them till Fri. 25th yesterday!!
So half or more of the shrimp died during shipping, then I had to enrich them before feeding to my 2nd batch of horses.
So I lost a couple more horses from the 2nd batch. I thought that a weeks supply would be enough to last till I got the order in ( I was wrong) that won't happen again. I need to start trying to get them on frozen BS again, I quit adding it when I would leave so the wouldn't spoil in the tank while I was gone.
I had the tank full of food (BBS) but they were too small only week old BBS, I lost a batch of BBS that was 2 weeks old while I was gone so it left me with the smaller ones. The seahorses were eating but for their size they needed larger BS to get enough nutrition.
I watched them get weaker every time I seen them the last few days, I did catch some 1/8 - 1/4 in long Mysid and pods out of my sumps but not enough for all of them.
The rest seem to be getting stronger today from eating the adult BS I recieved yesterday.
I am not sure how many of the 2nd batch are left, about 12 - 15 of the 6 week old, I have a lot of green water in there tank so it is hard to see them.
I added green water in there when I was working out of town, so when I would add enriched brine shrimp with the horses before I would leave out of town for work, so the shrimp would have something to eat till they got eaten or I would get back, and clean the tank out and do a 50% water change, strain out the shrimp with a 250 micron sieve I made and place them in a 15 gal tub to be re enriched for their next trip
I lost one of the wild caught males last week, he was eating frozen mysis fine for weeks, but he quit eating about 10 days ago, so I started feeding it live ghost shrimp, it would eat about 2-3 a day but no more, then it quit eating them and I found it dead in the quarantine tank yesterday!
I checked in one of my 15 gal tubs where I had put 5 mysid about 2 months ago with a light on a 12 hr timer, I put all my fake plants in there for the baby mysid to hide in, I dump my extra BBS up to 1 week old when I clean the tanks out i catch with a smaller 120 micron sieve.
I caught out about 20 adults and fed to the 2nd batch Thursday and I counted about 50 more in there this morning just on one side when I move the plants.
I thought they had died, but they haven't.
Thanks for the replies!
I like the mantis, I put them in my sump for the 90 gal. They are really neat to watch, they are smart hunters, I like the way they sneak around while hunting they remind me of one of our cats.
My work schedule has changed back and forth, I have been working out of town for 2 days at a time and home for a few hrs. and I leave back out.
I am back on a board that don't work as often so I can start posting again.
The update:
I still have 2 from the 1st batch, now 8 weeks old + or -
They have there own 29 gal. with live rock and sand from TBS. It is a extra tank for more water volume for the 29 gal. my original 4 adults I bought last year are in. I have a pump that pulls water out of my main seahorse tank and pumps it into another 29 gal. tank and I made a 1 inch tube that connects the 2 tanks, It's water per. stay perfect, and ampepods, copepods,and mysid shrimp are every where in there and have been for over a year.
I put the 2 horses in there to make sure they get enough to eat(these are unrelated to all the others), So I am giving them special treatment for a dif. blood line!
I started getting low of larger brine shrimp a couple weeks ago, the horses were eating them faster then I can raise the brine to adult size, so I put the 2 first batch horses in the 29 to give them the best chance to survive and so I could save the rest of the brine shrimp I had left for the others from the 2nd batch.
I ordered 48 tsp of 1/2 grown brine from a place in FL. on Tue. 15th but they were not open on wed to ship them, so they shipped them this Mon. and I didn't recieve them till Fri. 25th yesterday!!
So half or more of the shrimp died during shipping, then I had to enrich them before feeding to my 2nd batch of horses.
So I lost a couple more horses from the 2nd batch. I thought that a weeks supply would be enough to last till I got the order in ( I was wrong) that won't happen again. I need to start trying to get them on frozen BS again, I quit adding it when I would leave so the wouldn't spoil in the tank while I was gone.
I had the tank full of food (BBS) but they were too small only week old BBS, I lost a batch of BBS that was 2 weeks old while I was gone so it left me with the smaller ones. The seahorses were eating but for their size they needed larger BS to get enough nutrition.
I watched them get weaker every time I seen them the last few days, I did catch some 1/8 - 1/4 in long Mysid and pods out of my sumps but not enough for all of them.
The rest seem to be getting stronger today from eating the adult BS I recieved yesterday.
I am not sure how many of the 2nd batch are left, about 12 - 15 of the 6 week old, I have a lot of green water in there tank so it is hard to see them.
I added green water in there when I was working out of town, so when I would add enriched brine shrimp with the horses before I would leave out of town for work, so the shrimp would have something to eat till they got eaten or I would get back, and clean the tank out and do a 50% water change, strain out the shrimp with a 250 micron sieve I made and place them in a 15 gal tub to be re enriched for their next trip
I lost one of the wild caught males last week, he was eating frozen mysis fine for weeks, but he quit eating about 10 days ago, so I started feeding it live ghost shrimp, it would eat about 2-3 a day but no more, then it quit eating them and I found it dead in the quarantine tank yesterday!
I checked in one of my 15 gal tubs where I had put 5 mysid about 2 months ago with a light on a 12 hr timer, I put all my fake plants in there for the baby mysid to hide in, I dump my extra BBS up to 1 week old when I clean the tanks out i catch with a smaller 120 micron sieve.
I caught out about 20 adults and fed to the 2nd batch Thursday and I counted about 50 more in there this morning just on one side when I move the plants.
I thought they had died, but they haven't.
