Seahorse feeding station

[triggerfreak]

I am getting ready for seahorses in my tank with in the next month or so and i have been looking for info everywhere. What i would like to know is where can i purchase a feeding station or how can i build one myself. I kind of have an idea on how they work but not what they look like. So any pictures on them or pictures on building them would be very helpful. THANKS!

 

[km133688]

I think chaeto algae makes a great feeding station. There have been several reports of it working well. I have a pile of it in my tank. I drop my Hikari Mysis via turkey baster (god's gift to reefers) onto the pile of chaeto. It mostly lays on top with a little floating away and some sinking in between the strands.

The horses seem to like chasing the feed in the water column, snicking it off the chaeto, and picking it out of the strands because their snouts can slip between the strands easy. The chaeto keeps most of the food from floating away, and from going to the tank bottom.

Another guy on RC talked about how he made a chaeto wall with egg crate or light diffuser or something. He wove the chaeto in and out of the stuff and then stood it up along the back wall of his aquarium. It hids all his heaters, etc., and his horses spend most of their day clining to and swiming along the wall searching for pods. Chaeto is great for growing pods and stuff in.

Anyway, good luck, Kevin

 

[Anthony Calfo]

I have a picture of a commercial one in my pic gallery. Its simple/cheap but works well enough. My CB SHs take to it almost immediately. You can DIY one akin to it with clear 1" lift tubes and a fashioned plastic tray at the bottom (cable ties and suction cups to hold all in place)

 

[Swanwillow]

I aquarium siliconed half a clam shell to the side of my tank, after having a different half clam shell on the bottom on the sand, either way worked, this way is funner, but getting the flow from my one powerhead is difficult... if that makes ANY sense

you can be creative too: using tupperware, you can make some... anything with a lip that will keep the mysis in the station will work