Seahorse regurgitating brine shrimp
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pledosophy
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Put a pic of the seaorse up and we will give you the species.
Sounds like your seahorse doesn't like brine, my WC's never did either. They actually hid from them like I was dropping grenades on them.
Easiest way to convert to frozen seems to be to move the seahorse into a barebottom tank with no liverock. Then continue to feed live foods out of a net. Let the seahorse see the net, and the food come out of it. Then you take the live shrimp and squish the tails of the little buggers just a bit so they are injured but not dead, so the horse gets used to seeing less active shrimp as food. Next you squish the buggers a bit more until they are dead, then continue to feed out of the same net. Once they take the dead shrimp, then thaw the mysis thoroughly and feed the seahorse with the same net. Sometimes you might need to get a turkey baster and blow around the dead shrimp so the seahorse sees them moving.
The barebottom tank seems to be the most effective way of doing this. Apparently seahorses have a short attention span and will be dostracted by the rock and sand. Also easier to blow around the mysis if your not creating a sandstorm.
HTH
Sounds like your seahorse doesn't like brine, my WC's never did either. They actually hid from them like I was dropping grenades on them.
Easiest way to convert to frozen seems to be to move the seahorse into a barebottom tank with no liverock. Then continue to feed live foods out of a net. Let the seahorse see the net, and the food come out of it. Then you take the live shrimp and squish the tails of the little buggers just a bit so they are injured but not dead, so the horse gets used to seeing less active shrimp as food. Next you squish the buggers a bit more until they are dead, then continue to feed out of the same net. Once they take the dead shrimp, then thaw the mysis thoroughly and feed the seahorse with the same net. Sometimes you might need to get a turkey baster and blow around the dead shrimp so the seahorse sees them moving.
The barebottom tank seems to be the most effective way of doing this. Apparently seahorses have a short attention span and will be dostracted by the rock and sand. Also easier to blow around the mysis if your not creating a sandstorm.
HTH
pledosophy
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P.S. while I have trained 40-50 seahorses this way, all WC's, my own reidi, never accepted frozen. So don't feel bad about it if your seahorse doesn't take to frozen. Feel bad about the few thousand dollars extra a year per seahorse that you'll fork out for paying for live. :lol: 
