Questions about seahorse food

[Durbelethwen]

I have been thinking about getting a pair of dwarf seahorses for my six gallon nano reef (which is currently sitting in a warehouse waiting to be bought). I want to make sure that they will be happy in my care. I was wondering if they would be able to subsist on some sort of copepod colony that I would place in my tank, and the offspring of two sexy shrimp, that I will certainly be getting no matter what my decision on the seahorses?
Also why do dwarf seahorses need live baby brine shrimp, when the larger sea horses can be trained to eat the frozen kind?

 

[timinnl]

I have been thinking about getting a pair of dwarf seahorses for my six gallon nano reef (which is currently sitting in a warehouse waiting to be bought). I want to make sure that they will be happy in my care. I was wondering if they would be able to subsist on some sort of copepod colony that I would place in my tank, and the offspring of two sexy shrimp, that I will certainly be getting no matter what my decision on the seahorses?
Also why do dwarf seahorses need live baby brine shrimp, when the larger sea horses can be trained to eat the frozen kind?

Enriched artemia is the staple diet & you can add Tisbe sp, A. tonsa & mysis to the tank. It just a matter of how quickly the pods reproduce vs enriched artemia.

Copepods or the sexy shrimp do not reproduce quickly to meet the daily feeding needs of the H. zosterae.

The larger ones are weaned onto a diet of frozen mysis. You can give the larger ones a treat of frozen artemia or live enriched artemia weekly.

The H. zosterae never took to being trained. They like the food to come to them for the most part. Whereas the other kind will hunt around.