Seahorse babies
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MarineBiased
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wow ... no advice sorry but major applause and jealousy here 
I would start hatching Brineshrimp. If you decapsulate them first they will hatch quicker, leave no shells for them to eat, and also kill any hydroids. Then hatch a new batch every day, so you are feeding newly hatched Brineshrimp daily. If you even have a few Rotifers I would feed them also
vlangel
Premium Member
Maybe check your filters and sump for pods until the baby brine is hatched. When my babies were born 6 weeks ago I only kept 22,(I gave the others away) and that was a good move for me. Less feeding and cleaning and even at that they are a lot of work! I still have 15 and they are pretty healthy looking though.
I have 3 hatcheries going. Should have something tomorrow. Feeding live and frozen rotifers - they seem to be snicking at something - hopefully its the rotifers. Thankfully a local reefer dropped off a portion of live rotifers.
They tend to stay near the water surface - don't seem to be too interested in hunting pods. I going to shake some pods from the cheato in the sump regardless.
Man, this completely caught me offguard - my seahorses keep threatening to have babies but nothing happens.
Unfortunately, the must have happened overnight - a lot of the babies got caught in the filter bag. I would guess I probably only have about 20-30 left.
They tend to stay near the water surface - don't seem to be too interested in hunting pods. I going to shake some pods from the cheato in the sump regardless.
Man, this completely caught me offguard - my seahorses keep threatening to have babies but nothing happens.
Unfortunately, the must have happened overnight - a lot of the babies got caught in the filter bag. I would guess I probably only have about 20-30 left.
vlangel
Premium Member
Read some of the threads that rayjay posted on the husbandry of the fry's nursery and also how to clean and enrich the baby brine shrimp. That helped me tremendously. I also used sanolife-mic probiotic in their water and I think that helped with keeping bacteria down along with the usual temperature below 74 and lots of WCs.
thanks!
