Training seahorses to eath frozen

[tmz]

what do you think about the sand bed do you think it matters not only conserning as a source of potential food but generally?

It will provide surface area for bacteria ;most of the denitrifiction will occur in the top inch or less. If you have adeqaute live rock or other surface area,gnerally, I don't think deep sand beds are particularly helpful,unless you keep animals that need them or you enjoy them.

 

[tmz]

In dealing with erectus fry, I start some cyclopeeze mixed with chopped mysis at 4 to five weeks along with atremia nauplii and two to three day old gut loaded brine . The idea being to get them used to larger foods alive and dead.
Trying some minced mysis might be useful for reluctant adult frozen mysis feeders.

I've not had those issues with the adults I keep including some 3 month old fry who take a mix of mostly frozen mysis with some bloodworms ,brine and cyclopeeze greedily.

 

[DanU]

Above you mentioned low current. I would encourage you to experiment with the flow and increase it as the seahorses tolerate. In general, high flow tanks stay cleaner and healthier. Seahorses are usually more active in higher flow tanks. I generally shoot for 10 turns per hour or more when starting out. The key is to break it up so jet streams of current aren't too strong.

Dan

 

[omppu]

News: I saw one of the non-eaters poo last day. She pood less than others but still something. This is good news as it means that she is actually finding food from the aquarium.

I have replaced my tunze wavebox to a Vortech mp10 and icreased flow a bit.