Seahorse fry, free to good home!

[vlangel]

Hi all, my pair of seahorses are pregnant again and I am offering the fry to anyone who wants to try their hand at raising them. I can even give you pointers as I have successfully raised 15 fry to 4 mos. from my last batch. They may arrive as soon as tomorrow and will certainly be here by the end of the weekend. PM me if you are interested. Thanks, Dawn

 

[MondoBongo]

congratulations on your rearing success! maybe at some point in the future, i can take you up on this, but unfortunately right now i don't have the room.

 

[vlangel]

congratulations on your rearing success! maybe at some point in the future, i can take you up on this, but unfortunately right now i don't have the room.

Thanks Mondo. If no one wants them I will just let the tank filter them out which makes me sad but I still have the 15 juvies and it was a lot of work getting them to this point. I need a break from fry raising!

 

[feedmycorals]

I know how you feel! I have been rearing clownfish fries. I managed to successfully raise 8 of them past meta. I think they are about 24 days old now. This morning one died for no reason.

I would love raising baby seahorse but so overwhelmed now..I have a new batch of clownfish eggs hatching this Sunday.

By the way, your seahorse babies look so cute!

 

[vlangel]

I know how you feel! I have been rearing clownfish fries. I managed to successfully raise 8 of them past meta. I think they are about 24 days old now. This morning one died for no reason.

I would love raising baby seahorse but so overwhelmed now..I have a new batch of clownfish eggs hatching this Sunday.

By the way, your seahorse babies look so cute!

Thanks! I raised 1 batch of clownfish about 6-7 years ago. You are right, it was a lot of work, so much so that I never did it again. I think I raised 7. I still have 1 of those clownfish in my tank now. I sold his parents a couple years ago. They mated twice a month as long as I had them.
My male seahorse delivered this morning. I left them in the tank to be filtered out since no one was ready to raise any.

 

[Misled]

Dawn, at some point I'd like to try again. I know mine got an infection and slowly passed. They did last till I had them on frozen brine though. I know how to take care of the infection part now, but I know my temp went too high. I'm picking up a chiller tomorrow. I'm also re-doing my tank right now. Gotta mail out the rbta's that are over-running it right now. :wave:

 

[vlangel]

Dawn, at some point I'd like to try again. I know mine got an infection and slowly passed. They did last till I had them on frozen brine though. I know how to take care of the infection part now, but I know my temp went too high. I'm picking up a chiller tomorrow. I'm also re-doing my tank right now. Gotta mail out the rbta's that are over-running it right now. :wave:

Hey Jesse, nice to hear from you. I'm sorry about the fry but I guess what you experienced is pretty common. Temperature can be a really big factor so I think the chiller will help tremendously. I think I had some beginner's luck, plus I am pretty sure the sanolife-mic F helped. Also when I was using Selcon to enrich bb at one point I lost 3 fry in 1 week. An experienced seahorse keeper told me to switch to all Dan's Feed, (she thought they had bacteria in the gut) and when I did I didn't lose any more. Now I have 15 juveniles that I have no idea what to do with, LOL. Only 1 has developed a pouch so I still have some time to figure that out.
I'll be happy to pass more fry along. I felt really bad yesterday letting the tank have the fry that were born but I need a break. Take care, Dawn