A few weeks ago I purchased one kuda seahorse for my fish tank. I was planning on keeping a seahorse only tank, with some soft corals and inverts.
I chose the horse that I wanted, the most active and healthiest looking one, and brought it home. It took me a few weeks for it to finally get the point of where the frozen food was coming from, but once I did, I decided to introduce another seahorse (same store, same everything) to the tank. This horse has not yet understood the concept of where the food is coming from when it's feeding time.
Both horses were way too skinny, and the first one has fattened up to a healthy look, but the second one has not and I think this is because it's much too interested looking for the food on the sandbed than looking in the water column which is where the other horse gets it's food.
Because of this, and making sure that both horses (although I do feed two to three times a day) get enough to eat has resulted in overfeeding. I figure that until the other horse figures out where to get the food, I need to make sure it has food to eat.
So far this hasn't effected my water quality, I've been doing twice weekly water changes, monitoring the water quality daily, and cleaning out the filter media once a week to get rid of any rotting food that could be caught.
I want to get them trained to use a feeding station, but I know how much time that is going to take, given how they are now.
Has anyone had experience with this, or advice on this situation? I have nassarius snails that are doing a wonderful job of cleaning up the left over food, as well as a cleaner shrimp, but anything coming from people who have, or had been, in a similar situation would be wonderful.
BTW, I'm feeding them frozen mysis shrimp.
I chose the horse that I wanted, the most active and healthiest looking one, and brought it home. It took me a few weeks for it to finally get the point of where the frozen food was coming from, but once I did, I decided to introduce another seahorse (same store, same everything) to the tank. This horse has not yet understood the concept of where the food is coming from when it's feeding time.
Both horses were way too skinny, and the first one has fattened up to a healthy look, but the second one has not and I think this is because it's much too interested looking for the food on the sandbed than looking in the water column which is where the other horse gets it's food.
Because of this, and making sure that both horses (although I do feed two to three times a day) get enough to eat has resulted in overfeeding. I figure that until the other horse figures out where to get the food, I need to make sure it has food to eat.
So far this hasn't effected my water quality, I've been doing twice weekly water changes, monitoring the water quality daily, and cleaning out the filter media once a week to get rid of any rotting food that could be caught.
I want to get them trained to use a feeding station, but I know how much time that is going to take, given how they are now.
Has anyone had experience with this, or advice on this situation? I have nassarius snails that are doing a wonderful job of cleaning up the left over food, as well as a cleaner shrimp, but anything coming from people who have, or had been, in a similar situation would be wonderful.
BTW, I'm feeding them frozen mysis shrimp.
