What to do now???

[timjoemak]

Well I was just going to ask, my seahorse did not take any food I gave it, like frozen brine shrimp, live baby brine shrimp, little small pellets, nothing. Well just for your imformation, my country does not sell any mysys or ghost shrimp, not live of dead, none of them. So is there a way to solve its eating problem??

 

[ann83]

Collect them yourself in rivers, estuaries, on the coast, etc. And try live adult brine shrimp.

 

[timjoemak]

thanks anyone else?
pls I need a lot of help on this

 

[ann83]

You could also try to catch or buy live amphipods or gammarus shrimp. And keep trying frozen foods in the size range of mysis as well, like small krill. What frozen and live foods DO you have available where you are located?

 

[pledosophy]

There has to be some source of food available if your LFS was keeping the seahorse alive.

What country and city are you in?

 

[timjoemak]

i am in malaysia and there are no mysis shrimp here not even any live amphipods.. In the lfs tank it was said that they the seahorse only ate live things from the tank

 

[gatorolsen]

do you have access to an established reef tank - maybe you could collect some pods from their tank - might buy you some time.

also small baby guppies - again not ideal long term food source but need to get your seahorse eating something. They have a short digestive tract and I have heard that after just a few days of not eating it can be hard to get them going again.

Keep trying the frozen - do you have an airline or something that can move the frozen food around a little to spark some interest

Gatorolsen