Raising baby dwarf seahorses

[wendy32693]

I keep all of my adult dwarf seahorses in a 12g tank and once i get a pregnant one I move him into a separate 3g tank, I've been able to raise the babies to about 2 weeks old then I start loosing babies. A couple weeks ago i had several batches and once they all got to around 2 weeks old they all died..Now this batch I haven't lost any babies at all and now they are about 2 weeks old and so far there is 1 dead baby. Is there something extra I should be doing ? I Feed them 2 times a day a lot of enriched brine shrimp.

 

[TamiW]

Can you share some additional details about the tank? Things like, filtration, maintenance schedule, water quality (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph, kh, temp)? Also, what are you enriching the bbs with?

You also don't need to move dwarf seahorse fry, they grow with the parents just fine in most cases.

 

[wendy32693]

all the levels in the tank is fine, it is just once they get to 2 weeks old they start dieing. And being in the 12g tank with the parents they werent getting enough food, and were dieing.

 

[TamiW]

Oops. double.

 

[TamiW]

I don't have enough details to begin to guess what could be the problem.

I can say that it's not normal, but that's about it.

 

[Clownfishfan]

Try more feeding,feed copepods, fill there tank with parent tank water to begin with,and change half gal daily with parent tank water. Thats all I can think of.
Be more specific,its all good could mean about anything .

 

[Clownfishfan]

Double post