Reasonable price
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Well Im pretty sure these are captive bred as they have been there a while. They were priced at $60 a few months ago. They are fat and happy so I know they're eating. The store feeds a mix of around 10 frozen foods including mysis, brine, and spirulina so keeping them fed should be easy
ctenophors rule
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the issue is more of parasites than feeding with wild caught, just ask him.
however if it is wild caught, since its eating frozen, getting them dewormed will be much easier.
Ditto what ctenophors said. Both wild caught and captive bred will/can eat frozen. But very few LFS's carry captive bred horses (though many claim they do). Ask them where they got them from. If it's anyplace but ORA, it's likely wild caught (ORA is the only place I've heard of that LFS's order captive bred horses from). Could be that they did an order from them and then couldn't sell so lowered the price. But you'll do yourself a big favor to find out.
I'll see if I can catch the owner. He's only there in the mornings. As far as deworming them how does that work? And wher can I find dewormer if I decide to get these ones? I'd really like to get them out of the 20 long tank they are in and get them in something more suited for them.
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
If the LFS can tell you the species of the SH (binomial name, not "black SH", etc), and where they came from, it's a good indication that the SH may be CB.
As a novice keeper, I really think getting bona fide CB specimens will be a lot less trouble until you get a handle on keeping them.
As far as the SH being bargain...think about it: you're paying $35 for the SH, but you already have to treat them with meds, which isn't cheap, plus your time to do it AND the possibility of the SH going off its feed and you having to retrain it to frozen.
The choice is yours, but it's food for thought...
As a novice keeper, I really think getting bona fide CB specimens will be a lot less trouble until you get a handle on keeping them.
As far as the SH being bargain...think about it: you're paying $35 for the SH, but you already have to treat them with meds, which isn't cheap, plus your time to do it AND the possibility of the SH going off its feed and you having to retrain it to frozen.
The choice is yours, but it's food for thought...
Saltwatercoral2
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I paid $30.00 each for the seahorses i got, that were tank raised.. $30.00 for the Reidi ones, if they are tank raised is a good price!
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
While I can't say 100%, as there are things I don't know about your SH, I'd venture to guess that if they came from a LFS, you have SH that have been bred in net pens in the ocean in Sri Lanka or SE Asia. These SH are often called "tank raised", but have been exposed to all of the same pathogens as WC specimens. SH take a lot of time and money to reach market size, and raising them is expensive, so I have my doubts that your SH were bred by breeder, simply based on their price.
DanU
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Actually WC seahorses are becoming more expensive than CB these days. As a breeder, trying to source WC for brood stock, I am finding that they can be 3 to 4 times more expensive. The exception would be H. erectus which doesn't require permitting to obtain and ship. WC specimens will typically be larger than CB ones. There are many places to order CB from. While we have a regular list of LFS & wholesalers with whom we do business with, most wholesalers today import CB. Most LFS order from wholesalers. When this is the case, the LFS typically has no idea where the seahorses originate from. The cheaper ones typically originate from Viet Nam, especially H. kuda, H. comes and H. kelloggi. Most of these are CB but with various methods from tanks to net pens. With the exception of ORA H. reidi, most H. reidi originate from a breeder in Sri Lanka. Most CB H. erectus are sourced from anyone of several US based breeders.
Dan
